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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Sun" title="Day of the Sun">Day of the Sun</a></b> in North Korea; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson_Day" title="Jackie Robinson Day">Jackie Robinson Day</a></b> in the United States
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632" title="1632">1632</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years' War</a>: A Swedish–German army defeated the forces of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_League_(German)" title="Catholic League (German)">Catholic League</a> at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rain" title="Battle of Rain">Battle of Rain</a></b>, mortally wounding their commander <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Tserclaes,_Count_of_Tilly" title="Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly">Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a> – Ten Japanese-American children were killed in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Sh%C5%8Dgakk%C5%8D_fire" title="Nihon Shōgakkō fire">a racially motivated arson attack on a school</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento, California</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936" title="1936">1936</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tulkarm_shooting" title="1936 Tulkarm shooting">Two Jews were killed</a></b> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulkarm" title="Tulkarm">Tulkarm</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine" title="Mandatory Palestine">Mandatory Palestine</a>,  an act widely viewed as the beginning of violence within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine" title="1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine">Arab revolt</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989" title="1989">1989</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster" title="Hillsborough disaster">Hillsborough disaster</a></b>, a human crush that caused 97 deaths in the worst disaster in British sporting history, occurred during an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup" title="FA Cup">FA Cup</a> match between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C." title="Liverpool F.C.">Liverpool</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham_Forest_F.C." title="Nottingham Forest F.C.">Nottingham Forest</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019" title="2019">2019</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_fire" title="Notre-Dame fire">A fire</a></b> severely damaged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris" title="Notre-Dame de Paris">Notre-Dame de Paris</a>, destroying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spire_of_Notre-Dame_de_Paris" title="Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris">the cathedral's timber spire</a> and much of the roof.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" title="Leonardo da Vinci">Leonardo da Vinci</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1452); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Cardinale" title="Claudia Cardinale">Claudia Cardinale</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1938); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Watson" title="Emma Watson">Emma Watson</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1990)</p>