Today in History - History - April 15th

1991Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898

1911Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning

1992William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame

1865Otto Von Bismarck elevated to rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen

1689French King Louis XIV declares war on Spain

1947Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers)

195810th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young & Jane Wyatt win

1493-20/4 Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella

1927Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)

1997Baseball honors Jackie Robinson by retiring #42 for all teams

1933Elizabeth Montgomery, Los Angeles California, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched)

1894Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64)

1990Emma Watson, Paris, France, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)

1875James J. Jeffries, Carroll Ohio, American heavyweight boxer

1908Lita Grey, Hollywood California, American actress

1452Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary

1982Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer

1943Robert Lefkowitz, NYC, New York, American physician (Nobel Prize for Chemistry)

1978Novelist Danielle Steel (30) weds William George Toth

1953Ice hockey player Gordie Howe (25) weds sports agent Colleen Joffa (20) at Calvary Presbyterian Church

1948Philippine president Manuel Roxas, dies of heart attack at 56

1980Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74

1990Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84

1865Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56