This day in history 15th April 2009

1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery born 15th April, 1933 - Actress ("Bewitched") 

1950 - Amy Wright born 15th April, 1950 - Actress ("The Deer Hunter", "The Scarlet Letter")

1959 - Emma Thompson born 15th April, 1959 - Actress 
 
1963 – Saleem Malik (born April 15, 1963)(also known as Salim Malik) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played between 1981/82 and 1999, at one stage captaining the Pakistani cricket team.

1966 - Samantha Fox born 15th April, 1966 – Singer

1968 - Aretha Franklin recorded "Think." 

1972 - Mandira Bedi (born 15 April 1972) is an Indian Bollywood actress, model and television presenter who gained celebrity in her early twenties as a result of playing the title role in the 1994 television serial Shanti, shown on India’s national channel, Doordarshan.

1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story.

1982 - Billy Joel was seriously hurt in a motorcycle accident on Long Island, New York. He went to the hospital and stayed for over a month undergoing therapy on his injured hand. 

1996 - Shyam Benegal’s film ‘The Making of a Mahatma’ released in S. Africa

2007 - The Mumbai office of Star TV was on Monday ransacked by a group of activists allegedly belonging to the Hindu Rashtra Sena. The reason - Star TV carried an “innocuous news” of an inter-caste marriage between a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl.

2007 - Shilpa, Gere’s kissing act creates furore.

2008 - Samajwadi MP Jaya Bachchan led a walk out by party MPs in Rajya Sabha after she was refused permission to raise the issue of anti-north Indians campaign in Maharashtra of which her husband Amitabh Bachchan was the most visible target.

2008 - Sachin Tendulkar pulled out of the Olympic torch relay run in New Delhi, just a day before the event.

2008 - Ollie Johnston, the last of the great artists from Walt Disney’s golden age of animation that included Pinocchio, Peter Pan and Bambi, died at the age of 95 - SAMPURN