Authored by: flameape on Wednesday, April 16 2008 @ 06:44 PM

SOME FAMOUS APRIL 15TH EVENTS/ BIRTHS:

1450 - Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
1642 - Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1684 - Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
1772 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth.
1874 - Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
1892 - The General Electric Company is formed.
1894 - Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
1904 - Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1920 - Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for use by diabetics.
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
1933 - Roy Clark, American musician
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995)
1947 - Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. Also, April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day.
1950 - Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter
1951 - Heloise, American newspaper columnist
1954 - Seka, American pornographic actress
1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first franchise of McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
April 25, 2000 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.

So Candleblog is in history making company! HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

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-from an art-primate in the jungles of Burlington, VT.

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