1945: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
On This Day • April 15
Ranked historical events for this date.
1936: First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
1952: First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
1960: At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
