Today is Monday, April 15, the 105th day of 2013. There are 260 days left in the year.
1493 ― Columbus meets with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
1729 ― Johann S.Bach’s "Matthew’s Passion" premieres in Leipzig
1738 ― Bottle opener invented
1892 ― General Electric Company forms and is incorporated in New York
1896 ― First Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1912 ― Titanic sinks at 2:27 a.m. in North Atlantic as the band plays on
1945 ― FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1969 ― North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea
1970 ― Libyan leader Gadhafi launches "Green Revolution"
1989 ― Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests