A day, like any other, you'd think. However, April 15 has a unique position in recent history.

Let's look at the seven tragic events that date April 15th.

15th April 1865 Abraham Lincoln died
The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, died after being shot and seriously wounded by actor John Wilkes Booth the previous evening at the Ford Theater in Washington.

To make matters worse, four years earlier (April 15, 1861), Abraham Lincoln summoned 75,000 volunteers to suppress the riots that immediately turned into a North-South War (1861-65).

On April 15, 1912, the Titanic sank

At 2.20 after midnight, on its first voyage in the middle of the Atlantic sank the luxury steamer Titanic, which 2 hours and 40 minutes earlier crashed into the glacier. Of the 2,227 people on board, only 710 survived due to chaotic evacuation, lack of lifeboats and icy water.

On April 15, 1927, Mississippi catastrophically flooded

Mississippi, the largest North American river, broke through dams in 145 places and flooded 70,000 km2 to a height of 9 meters. As a result of this biggest flood in the history of the US, about 500 people died, another 700,000 lost their homes.

On April 15, 1989, 94 people died at the Hillsborough stadium

The England Cup semi-final between Liverpool FC and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield turned into a slaughterhouse as police entered several thousand more fans into the crowded grandstand of Liverpool supporters. The crowd was suffocated while standing or 94 people were trampled, two more died later. More than 700 people were injured. The match ended in the 16th minute.

On April 15, 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland

The 1666-meter-high volcano actually erupted on April 14, but only a day later its strength fully manifested itself. The explosion ejected ash to a height of several kilometers and on 15-17. It has caused airspace closures in almost all of Europe. In addition, the sudden thawing of the ice cover of the volcano has caused flooding, which has led to the evacuation of over 800 people.

On April 15, 2013, bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon is the oldest in the world and is attended by over 30,000 runners every year, encouraging a million spectators. In 2013, however, athletes encountered another enemy in addition to being exhausted in the finish line, when the Jochar and Tamerlan Carnayev brothers of Chechnya detonated two bombs made of pressure cookers, nails, shards and dust from fireworks. Three people succumbed to injuries, another 14 people lost their limbs.

Tamerlan Carnayev was killed in a firefight with the police, Jochar received the death penalty (not yet executed). Because the Americans confused the terms Chechnya and the Czech Republic, the public in the US long believed that the bombers come from the Czech Republic…

On April 15, 2019, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris burned down

In the evening of April 15, 2019, the repaired roof of Notre-Dame cathedral, probably after careless handling of an open fire or a cigarette butt, was fired. The cathedral, built by the French for 182 years, burned down within hours. French President Emmanuel Macron promised to restore it in five years, but the reconstruction is significantly delayed (partly due to the global pandemic of COVID-19).