On this day: 15 April

•1912: The 'unsinkable' liner SS 'Titanic' strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic and sinks, killing 1,503 people.

Great idea for a thread John :handclap:



1755 - "A Dictionary of the English Language" was first published by Samuel Johnson
1955 - the first McDonald's franchise opens in Chicago, named McDonalds #1 despite the fact the owners already have eight McDonald's restaurants open elsewhere
1989 - The Hillsborough Disaster

16th April

1964 - The Great Train Robbers were jailed for a total of 307 years, with some of the longest sentences in British legal history, fittingly for the biggest-ever robbery carried out in Britain. Seven of the defendants - Ronald Biggs, Charles Wilson, Douglas Goody, Thomas Wisbey, Robert Welch, James Hussey and Roy James - were jailed for 30 years each. The ringleader, Bruce Reynolds, remained at large until 1969 when he received 10 years in prison.

1953 - The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh launch the Royal Yatch Britannia at the Clydebank yard of John Brown and Co., prior to the Queen's Coronation in June.

1943 - Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD :unibrow:

1746 - The Battle of Culloden, betweeen the Jacobites (mainly Highland Scots) and the British Army, was fought in Culloden, near Inverness, Scotland. It was the last battle to be fought on mainland Britain. The Duke of Cumberland, leading the British Army, earned the title "The Butcher" for his brutality.