Anonymous ID: ba7a41 April 16, 2019, 5 p.m. No.6204045   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Other key events on April 15th:

 

Church:

1250 Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova, Spain, request to build a synagogue

1901 Pope Leo XIII issues an allocution deploring hostile actions against the Roman Catholic Church throughout Europe

1945 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum

1949 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Redemptoris nostri

 

France:

1689 French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain

1900 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris opens (till 12th Nov)

1918 Georges Clémenceau publishes secret French/Austrian documents

 

Banking/Industry:

1793 Bank of England issues first £5 note

1892 General Electric Company formed by merger of Thomas Edison's General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company, arranged by J. P. Morgan and incorporated in NY

1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card

1991 East-Europe Bank forms in London

2012 China loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the US dollar

 

US:

1850 City of San Francisco incorporated

1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Abraham Lincoln (US Civil War)

1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater

1959 US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles resigns

 

Tragedies:

1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people

2013 Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line

2019 Notre-Dame de Paris fire

 

https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/15