Today in History for 15th April 2025
Historical Events
1862 – American poet Emily Dickinson first corresponds with author and future literary mentor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a relationship that lasts the rest of her life
1971 – John Kander and Fred Ebbs’ musical “70, Girls, 70”, starring Hans Conried and Mildred Natwick, opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 35 performances
1991 – East-Europe Bank forms in London
1992 – Lincoln Hospital in Bronx. New York loses its accreditation
2023 – Indian Atiq Ahmed, former lawmaker and convicted criminal, assassinated live on TV along with his brother Ashraf in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, while under police guard
Famous Birthdays
1874 – Johannes Stark, German physicist (Stark Effect; Nobel Prize in Physics -1919), and Nazi sympathizer, born in Schickenhof, German Empire (d. 1957)
1892 – Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author (The Hiding Place) and Holocaust survivor, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1983)
1940 – Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare, English novelist, born in Finsbury, London
1947 – Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician, born in Uddevalla, Sweden
1970 – Flex Alexander, American actor and comedian (Mark ‘Flex’ Washington in “One to One”), born in New York City, New York
Famous Deaths
1854 – Arthur Aikin, English scientist and writer (b. 1773)
1943 – Raffaele Casimiri, Italian composer, and musicologist dies at 62
1997 – Sam Moskowitz, American writer and historian of science fiction, dies at 76
1999 – Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer, dies at 55
2008 – Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop, dies at 86
