^B{^#!16!15 April^N! Feast day of St Ruadhan, St Paternus of Wales, St Hunna, and Saints Anastasia and Basilissa.
^B{1755^B} English lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson published his ^I{Dictionary^I}; he had taken eight years to compile it. ^B{1797^B} Sailors at Spithead, near Portsmouth, mutinied, demanding better conditions; the British government met their demands. ^B{1891^B} US inventor Thomas Edison gave a public demonstration of his kinetoscope, a moving-picture machine. ^B{1912^B} Over 1,500 people died when the passenger liner ^I{Titanic^I} sank after colliding with an iceberg on its first voyage. ^B{1922^B} Insulin was discovered by Canadian physiologist Frederick Banting and J J R Macleod. ^B{1942^B} The George Cross was awarded to the island of Malta, for bravery under heavy attack by German and Italian forces during World War II. ^B{
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism, ^B{1469^B}; Henry James, US-born British novelist, ^B{1843^B}; Joe Davis, English snooker player, ^B{1901^B}; Neville Marriner, British conductor, ^B{1924^B}; Jeffrey Archer, English politician and novelist, ^B{1940^B}; Emma Thompson, English actress, ^B{1959^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Mme de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis XV, ^B{1764^B}; Abraham Lincoln, ^B{16th president of the US, assassinated 1865^B}; Matthew Arnold, English poet and educator, ^B{1888^B}; Father Damien, Belgian missionary, ^B{1889^B}; Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, ^B{1980^B}; Arthur Lowe, English actor, ^B{1982^B}.
