Today in History: April 15, the Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

This day is Tuesday April the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On April the British luxury liner RMS Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland just over two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage Over people died survived Also on this date In Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford s Theater the previous evening Andrew Johnson was sworn in as the th president hours later Related Articles Poll more voters approve of Trump than not despite disliking his policies Trump meets with El Salvador s president as deportations there continue Justice Department charges man with arson at New Mexico Tesla dealership and GOP headquarters Getting the IRS on the phone is more laborious this tax filing season experts say US Army to control land on Mexico margin as part of base expatriates could be detained bureaucrats say In Jackie Robinson baseball s first Black major league sportsman of the modern era made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day at Ebbets Field The Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves - In Ray Kroc opened the first franchised McDonald s restaurant in Des Plaines Illinois In members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco a member of the group was SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst Hearst later reported she had been forced to participate in the robbery In a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield England caused deaths and over injuries In two bombs made from pressure cookers exploded at the Boston Marathon finish line killing two women and an -year-old boy and injuring more than In fire swept across the top of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral during renovation work on the landmark structure the blaze collapsed the cathedral s spire and spread to one of its iconic rectangular towers The cathedral was restored and reopened to the inhabitants in December This day s Birthdays Actor Claudia Cardinale is Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Cooper is Olympic track field gold medalist Evelyn Ashford is Actor-screenwriter Emma Thompson is Singer Samantha Fox is Olympic swimming gold medalist Dara Torres is Singer Luis Fonsi is Country singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton is Actor Luke Evans is Actor-writer Seth Rogen is Actor Alice Braga is Singer-songwriter Margo Price is Actor Samira Wiley is Actor Emma Watson is Actor Maisie Williams is