April 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1802	William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.	John Vanderslice	Friend in a Cloud	The Life and Death of an American Four-Tracker
2	1817	Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.	The Books	Deafkids	Thought for Food
3	1865	Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.	Dion	Abraham, Martin & John	Abraham, Martin & John
4	1892	The General Electric Company is formed.	Piano Magic	General Electric with Fairy Lights	Seasonally Affective
5	1924	Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.	Modest Mouse	Trucker's Atlas	Lonesome Crowded West
6	1947	Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.	The New Pornographers	Jackie	Mass Romantic
7	1955	McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois	Wesley Willis	Rock 'n Roll McDonalds	Greatest Hits

(Historical facts about April 15 are from Wikipedia.)