(Saturday, April 15, 1972) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau signed a joint agreement today in Ottawa to begin the large-scale job of cleaning up the Great Lakes, the world’s largest reservoir of fresh water.
Daily Archives: April 15, 2012
Leningrad trams resume operations 70 years ago today (1942)
Video: Leningrad trams resume operations (at 6:53)
(Wednesday, April 15, 1942, on the Eastern Front of World War II) — The Leningrad tram system resumed operation today, the 248th day of the Siege of Leningrad, after several months of being down for lack of power.
