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Events on the 15th of May in history

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15 May 0392 Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne.
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15 May 0495 A newly constructed temple in honour of the god Mercury was dedicated in ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills. To spite the senate and the consuls, the people awarded the dedication to a senior military officer, Marcus Laetorius
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15 May 0589 King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I. A Catholic, she has great influence among the Lombard nobility.
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15 May 0756 Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain
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15 May 0884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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15 May 1004 Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
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15 May 1213 English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
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15 May 1248 Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays cornerstone for K
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15 May 1252 Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
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15 May 1492 Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
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15 May 1525 Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
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15 May 1525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
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15 May 1536 Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford accused of adultery / incest
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15 May 1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
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15 May 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
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15 May 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
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15 May 1572 Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes
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15 May 1602 Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first recorded European to see Cape Cod.
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15 May 1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
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15 May 1610 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king
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15 May 1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
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15 May 1618 Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
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15 May 1625 16 rebellious farmers hanged in V
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15 May 1648 The Treaty of Westphalia is signed.
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15 May 1648 Treaty of M
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15 May 1665 Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme
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15 May 1672 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
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15 May 1701 The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
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15 May 1702 War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France
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15 May 1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
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15 May 1730 Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was chief minister)
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15 May 1755 Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
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15 May 1776 American Revolution: The Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
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15 May 1791 French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
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15 May 1792 War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
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15 May 1793 Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.
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15 May 1796 War of the First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
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15 May 1796 France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
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15 May 1796 French troops occupy Milan
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15 May 1800 King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
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15 May 1800 King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
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15 May 1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
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15 May 1811 Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
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15 May 1817 Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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15 May 1817 Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia
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15 May 1829 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
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15 May 1836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.
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15 May 1849 Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
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15 May 1849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
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15 May 1850 The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
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15 May 1851 The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.
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15 May 1851 Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned
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15 May 1856 2nd San Fransisco Vigilance Committee organized
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15 May 1858 Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
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15 May 1858 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London
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15 May 1862 Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores
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15 May 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
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15 May 1862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling) VA
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15 May 1862 Battle of Princeton WV
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15 May 1862 Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
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15 May 1862 Department of Agriculture created
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15 May 1862 General Benjamin F Butler issues "Woman's Order" - women of New Orleans to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers
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15 May 1862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn NY, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
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15 May 1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia
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15 May 1864 American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
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15 May 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
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15 May 1864 Battle of Resaca GA (3rd day)
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15 May 1864 Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)
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15 May 1868 Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
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15 May 1869 Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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15 May 1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms
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15 May 1876 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38
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15 May 1882 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
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15 May 1883 Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany
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15 May 1885 Canadian M
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15 May 1891 Jules Massenets opera "Griselde, " premieres in Paris
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15 May 1891 Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
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15 May 1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) is established
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15 May 1891 Jules Massenets opera "Griselde" premieres in Paris France
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15 May 1891 Operations begin at Philips & Company in Holland
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15 May 1891 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
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15 May 1894 20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
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15 May 1896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
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15 May 1902 Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
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15 May 1902 Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
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15 May 1904 Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
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15 May 1905 Las Vegas Nevada founded
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15 May 1905 Las Vegas, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
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15 May 1905 Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville
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15 May 1906 New York Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning
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15 May 1911 Three hundred three Chinese and five Japanese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Francisco I. Madero's brother Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
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15 May 1911 In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
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15 May 1911 British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
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15 May 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
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15 May 1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
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15 May 1912 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
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15 May 1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a New York Highlander game & is suspended
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15 May 1914 Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire, " premieres in Paris
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15 May 1916 Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
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15 May 1918 1st airmail postal service (NY, Philadelphia & Washington DC)
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15 May 1918 1st regular airmail service (between New York, Philadelphia & Washington DC) inaugurated
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15 May 1918 43rd Preakness (1st Division): Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
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15 May 1918 44th Preakness (2nd Dividion): Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4
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15 May 1918 Greek troops lands at Smyrna
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15 May 1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
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15 May 1919 Greek invasion of Smyrna. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
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15 May 1919 The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
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15 May 1919 Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
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15 May 1920 Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
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15 May 1923 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
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15 May 1925 Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
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15 May 1926 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8
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15 May 1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
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15 May 1928 Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
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15 May 1928 Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance
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15 May 1929 A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
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15 May 1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland OH)
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15 May 1930 Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Fransisco to Cheyenne)
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15 May 1931 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
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15 May 1932 In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
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15 May 1933 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
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15 May 1934 Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
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15 May 1934 Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
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15 May 1934 Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
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15 May 1935 The Moscow Metro is opened to the public.
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15 May 1935 Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
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15 May 1936 Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from South Africa in record 4 days 16 hours
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15 May 1937 63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
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15 May 1938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
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15 May 1940 1st nylon stockings sold in US
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15 May 1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
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15 May 1940 World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
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15 May 1940 USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
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15 May 1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
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15 May 1940 German armour division moves into Northern France
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15 May 1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders
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15 May 1940 Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
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15 May 1940 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US)
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15 May 1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris France
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15 May 1941 British attack Halfaya-pass and Fort Capuzzo in Egypt and Libya
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15 May 1941 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands forbid Jewish music
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15 May 1941 First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
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15 May 1941 1st British turbojet flies
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15 May 1941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yankees win 13-1
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15 May 1942 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
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15 May 1942 World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
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15 May 1942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
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15 May 1943 Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
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15 May 1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
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15 May 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
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15 May 1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz
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15 May 1944 Cincinnati Reds' Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
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15 May 1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
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15 May 1944 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne
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15 May 1945 World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
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15 May 1948 Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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15 May 1948 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
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15 May 1948 74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4
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15 May 1948 Australia scores 721 runs in one day vs Essex, world record
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15 May 1948 Bradman scores 187 Australia vs Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
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15 May 1948 Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
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15 May 1951 AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders
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15 May 1951 The Polish cultural attaché in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
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15 May 1951 AT&T becomes 1st corporation to have one million stockholders
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15 May 1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Washington Senators, 1-0
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15 May 1952 Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
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15 May 1953 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago
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15 May 1953 Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
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15 May 1953 Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 1 for heavywgt boxing title
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15 May 1953 Cubmaster Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, in Manhattan Beach, California, by Pack 280c.
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15 May 1953 Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago for heavyweight boxing title
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15 May 1954 KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
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15 May 1955 Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again
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15 May 1955 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
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15 May 1955 KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 May 1955 Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence
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15 May 1957 At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
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15 May 1957 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
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15 May 1957 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
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15 May 1958 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
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15 May 1958 USSR launches Sputnik III
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15 May 1959 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest
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15 May 1960 Chicago Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 4-0
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15 May 1960 Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
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15 May 1960 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 May 1960 Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
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15 May 1960 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
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15 May 1961 "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
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15 May 1961 "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
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15 May 1961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
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15 May 1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
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15 May 1962 US marines arrive in Laos
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15 May 1963 Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into space alone.
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15 May 1963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
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15 May 1963 Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
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15 May 1963 Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
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15 May 1964 Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp
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15 May 1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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15 May 1965 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
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15 May 1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
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15 May 1965 Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champion
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15 May 1966 After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất Đính, forcing him to abandon his command.
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15 May 1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs Somerset
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15 May 1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
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15 May 1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
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15 May 1967 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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15 May 1967 Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
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15 May 1968 "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
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15 May 1968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10pm, killing 36
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15 May 1968 1st American League game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago
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15 May 1968 Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is the substitute host
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15 May 1969 People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
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15 May 1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
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15 May 1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
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15 May 1970 Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
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15 May 1970 President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
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15 May 1970 Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be" is released in US
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15 May 1970 Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
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15 May 1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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15 May 1970 South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
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15 May 1971 "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances
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15 May 1971 97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54
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15 May 1971 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
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15 May 1972 "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
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15 May 1972 George Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland
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15 May 1972 In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.
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15 May 1972 Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
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15 May 1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims (Minia Egypt)
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15 May 1972 Ryukyu Island & Daito Island returned to Japan after 27 years of US control
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15 May 1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats Kansas City Royals, 3-0
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15 May 1974 Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
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15 May 1974 Mail truck terrorists take school in Ma
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15 May 1974 Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
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15 May 1975 Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
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15 May 1975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 9-4
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15 May 1976 "Fonz Song" by Heyettes hits #91
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15 May 1976 "Kentucky Moonrunner" by Cledus Maggard hits #85
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15 May 1976 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55
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15 May 1976 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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15 May 1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
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15 May 1980 Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA
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15 May 1980 1st trans-US balloon crossing
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15 May 1980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
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15 May 1980 Shawn Weatherly, Sumter SC, crowned 29th Miss USA/Miss Universe-1980
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15 May 1981 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in the UK
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15 May 1981 "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs
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15 May 1981 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
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15 May 1981 Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
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15 May 1981 SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC
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15 May 1981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
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15 May 1982 108th Preakness: 16-year-old Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4
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15 May 1983 Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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15 May 1983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
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15 May 1985 Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
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15 May 1986 Elio de Angelis, was killed while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet.
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15 May 1986 Argentine ex-President Galtieri sentenced to 12 years
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15 May 1987 The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
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15 May 1987 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
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15 May 1987 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hours, is set
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15 May 1988 "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances
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15 May 1988 "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 performances
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15 May 1988 Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan
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15 May 1988 Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan
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15 May 1988 Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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15 May 1988 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman
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15 May 1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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15 May 1988 Soviets begin withdrawl in Afgh
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15 May 1989 "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
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15 May 1989 Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs. Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers
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15 May 1989 Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston
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15 May 1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years
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15 May 1989 US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
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15 May 1990 "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 performances
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15 May 1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
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15 May 1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,822.45
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15 May 1990 Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
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15 May 1990 Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe
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15 May 1991 President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland Athletics-Baltimore Oriole game
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15 May 1991 Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.
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15 May 1991 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panam
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15 May 1991 Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
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15 May 1991 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
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15 May 1991 Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
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15 May 1992 Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
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15 May 1992 New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
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15 May 1992 Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
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15 May 1993 Jane Seymour and James Kesch, Marriage
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15 May 1993 Montreal Expos retire their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
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15 May 1993 119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6
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15 May 1993 Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
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15 May 1993 Montr
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15 May 1994 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
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15 May 1995 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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15 May 1997 The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
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15 May 1997 ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
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15 May 1997 STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission
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15 May 1999 125th Preakness: Chris Antley on Charismatic wins in 1:55.2
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15 May 2006 Cloud Gate was formally dedicated in Chicago's Millennium Park.
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15 May 2008 California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
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15 May 2010 Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
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15 May 2013 An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
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