Daily Almanac: April 15, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:04 a.m.
SET: 8:23 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 80 °F
LOW: 57 °F

Today is…

• Anime Day
• ASL Day
• Jackie Robinson Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1994 The World Trade Organization is founded. The WTO coordinates and strives to liberalize international trade. It has been criticized for ignoring and escalating the negative social and environmental side-effects of globalization.
• 1989 A small group of students initiates pro-democracy protest on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The death of reformer Hu Yaobang triggered the demonstrations, which grew in size and were brutally dispersed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4.
• 1945 The German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen is liberated. British and Canadian troops found about 53,000 prisoners inside the camp. Tens of thousands died before and after the liberation.

Births On This Day

• 1452 Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, architect
• 1894 Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union

Deaths On This Day

• 1865 Abraham Lincoln
American lawyer, politician, 16th President of the United States
• 1998 Pol Pot
Cambodian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia