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On This Day In History for April 15, 2026
This is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining in 2026.
- It was on this date in 1755, that Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” was published in London.
- Also today in 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
- It was also this date in 1892 that The General Electric Company was formed.
- It was 114 years ago today that The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
- It was also this date in 1923 that Insulin became generally available for use by people with diabetes.
- Also on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
- It was 74 years ago today that saw the First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
- McDonald’s restaurant dated its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois on this date in 1955.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Italian painter, sculptor, and architect, Leonardo da Vinci, born on this date in 1452.
- Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer was born on that same date in 1552.
- Swiss mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler was born 319 years ago today.
- Scottish physician and chemist, William Cullen, born on this date in 1710.
- German astronomer and academic, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was born 233 years ago today.
- English captain and explorer, James Clark Ross, born on this date in 1800.
- Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician was born on that same date in 1809.
- Nikolay Semyonov, the Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate was born 130 years ago today.
- Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut, Georgy Beregovoy, born on this date in 1921.
- Also born on that same date in 1965, Japanese engineer and astronaut, Soichi Noguchi.
Listener Birthdays
- 16 – Donna Tomasi
- 18 – Skaifey (Anthony)
- 19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter & Geek in Training)
- 21 – Kim and Kreg’s Anniversary
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 26, 2026
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- Astronomers discover a solar system 120 light-years away with two “Earths” and an arrangement so strange that it doesn’t fit any known formation model
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- Chemists make hydrogen from breadcrumbs in groundbreaking reaction that could replace some fossil fuels | Live Science
- Cry til you laugh: Chris Pirillo vibe codes his job-search frustrations into brutally honest apps – GeekWire
- A maverick hacker got Mac OS X running on a Wii
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