On April 15th in US Political History
On April 15th in 1791 Surveyor General Andrew Ellicott consecrated the southern tip of the triangular District of Columbia at Jones Point.
On April 15th in 1817 The first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Conn.
On April 15th in 1850 The city of San Francisco was incorporated.
On April 15th in 1861 Three days after the attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., President Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops.
On April 15th in 1865 President Lincoln died, several hours after he was shot at Ford’s Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson, Vice-President under Lincoln, became the 17th President (1865-1869) of the US upon the assassination.
On April 15th in 1892 General Electric Co., formed by the merger of the Edison Electric Light Co. and other firms, was incorporated in New York State.
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