Harold Lee Washington was born on April 15, 1922, he was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago serving from 1983 until his death on November 25, 1987.
Monday 15 April 2013
Johannes Stark - Stark effect
Johannes Stark was born on April 15, 1874, he was a German physicist, and Physics Nobel Prize laureate
who was closely involved with the Deutsche Physik movement under the
Nazi regime. He died on 21 June 1957. He discovered the Stark effect. It is the shifting and splitting of spectral lines of atoms and molecules due to presence of an external static electric field.
1st Olympic games close at Athens
The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-spot event held in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era.
Titanic Sank
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that
sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 (
Hit an iceberg 11:40 pm (ship's time) 14 April 1912 on her maiden voyage and sank 2h 40m later) after colliding with
an iceberg during her maiden voyage from from Southampton, UK to New York City ( US ).
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