On April 15, 2012, a poignant remembrance unfolded aboard the MS Balmoral as passengers and crew gathered to honor the memory of the Titanic, which sank exactly a century earlier in the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

Pol Pot, the architect of Cambodia’s killing fields, dies of apparently natural causes while serving a life sentence imposed against him by his own Khmer Rouge.

On April 15, 1997, the 50 anniversary of his first Major League Baseball game, the league retires Jackie Robinson’s number, 42.

Four months after leading a successful revolution in Cuba, Fidel Castro visits the United States.

On April 15, 1955, a significant chapter in the history of American dining unfolded as Ray Kroc inaugurated the first franchised McDonald’s restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.

On April 15, 1947, baseball history was forever changed as Jackie Robinson made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, becoming the first Black major league player of the modern era.

The Titanic hit an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank on this day in history. She took with her to the bottom of the sea some of the world’s richest people.

American singer and Blues great Bessie Smith, a monumental figure in her own time and beyond, was likely born on April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

In 1892, a significant chapter in the realm of electrical innovation and industry unfolded with the incorporation of General Electric Co.

At 7:22 a.m., Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer.