{"id":504695,"date":"2025-04-14T23:53:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/april-15th-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T03:53:39","slug":"april-15th-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/anniversaries\/april-15th-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"April 15th Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0The events of the\u00a0<strong>15th of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/efemerides\/efemerides-conmemoraciones-y-celebraciones-de-abril\/\">April,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0<strong>Below are the main events of the\u00a0<strong>April 15th<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>World Art Day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Pompe Disease Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saint's Day: <\/strong>Saints Anastasia, Domitilla, Eutychius, and Basilia. Saints Hannibal, Telmo, and Maron. Navy Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: April 15th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1502: Friars Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas and Nicol\u00e1s de Ovando arrive at the port of Santo Domingo, the latter to take possession as Governor of the island.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1502: Fray Bartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas, who would become an ardent defender of the indigenous people, arrives on the island of Hispaniola.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1821: The newspaper \u201cEl Duende\u201d, directed by Dr. Jos\u00e9 N\u00fa\u00f1ez de C\u00e1ceres, circulates in Santo Domingo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1844: The naval battle of \u201cTortuguero\u201d takes place, which culminates in the victory of the improvised Dominican fleet over the Haitian one. The Dominicans were led by Juan Bautista Cambiaso.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1844: The Central Governing Board legally acknowledges the existence of the Navy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1857: The school directed by P. Ag\u00fcero begins the teaching of shorthand in the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1867: The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jos\u00e9 Gabriel Garc\u00eda, alerts the Venezuelan government of an alleged plan by former President Buenaventura B\u00e1ez who is preparing to remove armaments and supplies from La Vela de Coro to once again harass his homeland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1954: Doctor Manuel Arturo Pe\u00f1a Batlle, a prominent collaborator of the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship, dies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1957: The statutes of the Ibero-American Education Office (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oei.int\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/oei.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OEI<\/a><\/strong>) are approved in Santo Domingo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1962: From New York, former President Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer says he is not afraid of justice for the accusations against him for the Espaillat street massacre and the death of those who executed dictator Rafael Trujillo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1963: The National Police headquarters orders the creation of the Transportation Departments and the Radio Patrol Division.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1970: The president of the Supreme Court of Justice, lawyer Manuel Ram\u00f3n Ruiz Tejada, is in charge of the Executive Power until the day of the issuance of the Official Election Certificate of the candidate elected for the presidency of the Republic in the elections of May 16 of this year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1974: The political opposition led by the Dominican Revolutionary Party forms a front called the Santiago Agreement, with the aim of displacing Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer from power, taking Antonio Guzm\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez as presidential candidate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1992: The Government prohibits people of the civilian class from buying and using olive green clothing and military-style chamacos.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005: The prosecutor of the National District, Manuel Hern\u00e1ndez Peguero, announces the postponement, without a date, of the interrogation he would conduct of former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda, in relation to the case of former Captain Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, accused of drug trafficking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/turismo\/republica-dominicana\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"419487\">Dominican Republic <\/a><\/strong>and Turkey sign an economic and civil aviation cooperation agreement, taking advantage of the country's strategic location to connect with other Caribbean nations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/estilo\/turismo\/republica-dominicana\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"419487\">Dominican Republic<\/a><\/strong> and Texas A&amp;M International University sign two cooperation agreements, one of which establishes that the university will advise the country on the organization and development of its maritime and terrestrial borders, so that the exchange of goods with the world increases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: The Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Francisco Ozoria, expresses his concern about what he understands is a lack of independence of the powers of the State, warning that \u201cif we do not wake up and change\u201d, the country will head towards a dictatorship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: The former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States Department of State, Roger Noriega, accuses the Dominican government of allegedly fabricating a judicial file to accuse an opposition candidate (Luis Abinader) of the failed elections of last February.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: Based on the recommendations contained in the report submitted by the technical commission of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oas.org\/es\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oas.org\/es\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OAS<\/a><\/strong>, the Central Electoral Board cancels the suspended National Director of Informatics, Miguel \u00c1ngel Garc\u00eda, for the failure of the municipal elections of February 16, 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International:<\/strong> <strong>April 15th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1502: Commander Nicol\u00e1s de Ovando arrives in La Espa\u00f1ola as governor, replacing Bobadilla, along with a total of 30 ships filled with 1,500 people and loaded with all kinds of food.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1817: In Alto Per\u00fa, present-day Bolivia, the Battle of La Tablada is fought, within the framework of the Bolivian War of Independence, with the montoneros led by Eustaquio M\u00e9ndez victorious over the Spanish army commanded by Colonel Mateo Ram\u00edrez.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1829: The project to create Scotland Yard is presented in the British parliament.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1865: President Abraham Lincoln dies, a victim of the attack that occurred the night before at Ford's Theatre perpetrated by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1953: Two bombs explode in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires while President Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n is speaking at an act of adhesion to the president organized by the CGT: 6 people die and there are numerous injuries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1961: Cuban airports are bombed by US planes, as a preparatory part of the Bay of Pigs invasion, carried out by a group of anti-Castro dissidents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1995: In Bolivia, former military dictator Luis Garc\u00eda Meza is captured, responsible for more than 500 murders, among other terrorist acts, such as the Massacre of Calle Harrington (in La Paz).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: President Rafael Correa obtains a solid political victory when Ecuadorians overwhelmingly approve a popular consultation that authorizes the call for a constituent assembly with full powers, whose objective is to transform the model of the State.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008: Pope Benedict XVI makes his first papal trip to the United States, being received by US President George W. Bush and hundreds of parishioners.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: Colombian authorities arrest Daniel Rend\u00f3n (Don Mario), considered one of the most dangerous and astute drug lords in that South American nation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: In Iceland, the dense ash cloud released by the Eyjafjallajokull volcano causes the cancellation of more than 5,000 flights at several airports in Europe.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: Three people die and more than 280 are injured in a bombing during the celebration of the Boston, Massachusetts marathon, for which the Chechen brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are held responsible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture located in the heart of medieval Paris, is devastated by a fire.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: The Director-General of the World Health Organization (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/es\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO<\/a><\/strong>), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announces that three vaccines against covid-19 are in the clinical trial stage and another 70 are in development.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: US President Donald Trump threatens to suspend Congress if the Democrats do not come out of quarantine to approve the new positions nominated by him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: Eight of the 11 members of the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court (STF) decide to uphold the ruling of a judge who annulled the convictions against former President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva in the state of Paran\u00e1, which rehabilitates him to participate in the presidential elections of October 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Births: April 15th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Efemerides-del-15-de-abril-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-463481\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Roy Raymond<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1894: Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1907: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1947: Roy Raymond, American businessman, founder of Victoria's Secret.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1965: Linda Perry, American singer and music producer, from the band 4 Non Blondes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deaths: April 15th Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Efemerides-del-15-de-abril.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-463479\" style=\"width:149px;height:auto\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Abraham Lincoln<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1865: <strong>Abraham Lincoln<\/strong>, U.S. President, victim of the assassination by John Wilkes Booth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1954: Manuel Arturo Pe\u00f1a Batlle, Dominican politician and intellectual.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1957: Pedro Infante, Mexican singer and actor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1973: Carmen Celia Ricardo widow Balaguer, mother of former president Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1980: Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1995: Carlos Facundo Menem and Silvio Oltra, victims of a helicopter attack in Argentina.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last verified living person born in 1899 and in the 1890s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: Vitelio Ruiz Hern\u00e1ndez, Cuban linguist and pedagogue, creator of the basic school dictionary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-\u00a0The events of the\u00a015th of\u00a0April,\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0Below are the main events of the\u00a0April 15th: Saint&#8217;s Day: Saints Anastasia, Domitilla, Eutychius, and Basilia. Saints Hannibal, Telmo, and Maron. Navy Day. 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