Notable Historical Events on May 15th
May 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
756 |
Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova, Spain |
884 |
Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1004 |
Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy |
1213 |
King John of England names Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury |
1248 |
Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Cologne cathedral |
1252 |
Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. |
1492 |
Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kill 232 residents of Alkmaar, Netherlands |
1514 |
Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work. |
1525 |
The battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded, 5,000 slaughtered ; ends the peasants' uprising |
1536 |
Anne Boleyn & brother George, Lord Rochford, accused of adultery and incest |
1572 |
Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes |
1602 |
Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold |
1610 |
Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king |
1618 |
Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law |
1625 |
16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt, Upper-Austria |
1648 |
Treaty of Munster ratified by Spain & Netherlands |
1665 |
Pope Alexander VII appoints committe to investigate Jansenism |
1672 |
1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts |
1701 |
The War of the Spanish Succession begins. |
1711 |
Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously |
1718 |
James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun |
1730 |
Robert Walpole becomes effectively Britain's 1st prime minister (was: chief min) |
1791 |
Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance. |
1793 |
Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 metres", at a height of 5-6 metres, during one of the first attempted flights. |
1796 |
France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris |
1796 |
French troops occupy Milan |
1796 |
First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph. |
1800 |
King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt |
1800 |
Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles |
1817 |
Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority (modern Indonesia), under Thomas Matulesia (aka Kapitan Pattimura) |
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. |
1829 |
Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith |
1836 |
Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse |
1849 |
Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded |
1851 |
Rama IV, [Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua], king of Thai (1851-68), crowned |
1856 |
2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized |
1858 |
Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London |
1862 |
-May 17] Battle of Princeton WV |
1862 |
Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia |
1862 |
Confederate ship Alabama launched as the Enrica at Birkenhead, England, where she had been built in secret |
1862 |
US Department of Agriculture created |
1862 |
Major Gen Benjamin F Butler issues order (New Orleans) that confederate women abusing union soldiers be treated as whores |
1862 |
Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens |
1864 |
Battle of New Market, Virginia |
1864 |
Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign) |
1868 |
Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls |
1869 |
National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
1876 |
2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25 |
1882 |
May Laws-Tsar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania |
1883 |
Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany |
1885 |
Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan |
1891 |
British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms |
1891 |
Jules Massenet's opera "Griselde" premieres in Paris |
1891 |
Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland |
1891 |
Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum |
1894 |
20th Kentucky Derby: Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41 |
1896 |
Tornado kills 78 in Texas |
1897 |
The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War. |
1902 |
Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft |
1902 |
Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola |
1905 |
Las Vegas Nevada founded |
1905 |
Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville |
1906 |
NY Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning |
1910 |
The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone. |
1911 |
British House of Commons accept Parliament Bill |
1911 |
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates |
1911 |
Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act) |
1911 |
The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece. |
1912 |
37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6 |
1912 |
Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended |
1914 |
Henri Rabaud's opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire" premieres in Paris |
1914 |
Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1914 |
US Colonel Edward House sails for Europe to persuade major powers to reduce armies and navies; from Germany, House reports: 'Everybody's nerves are tense; it only needs a spark to set the whole thing off' |
1915 |
AT&T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders |
1916 |
Asiago, Italy, falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front |
1916 |
Claiming that the USA must act to quell dangerous disorder, the government orders US Marines to land in Santo Domingo; the American occupation will continue until 1924 |
1918 |
1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC) |
1918 |
1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated |
1918 |
43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6 |
1918 |
44th Preakness: Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4 |
1918 |
Greeks troops lands at Smyrna |
1918 |
Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game |
1918 |
The Finnish Civil War ends. |
1919 |
Brooklyn Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0 |
1920 |
Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk |
1923 |
Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms |
1926 |
52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8 |
1928 |
Mickey Mouse made his 1st ever appearance in silent film "Plane Crazy" |
1929 |
Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) |
1930 |
Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne) |
1931 |
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno |
1932 |
The 15th May Incident: in an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed. |
1933 |
1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate |
1934 |
US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive |
1934 |
Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia |
1935 |
Pirates beat Phillies 20-5 |
1935 |
The Moscow Metro is opened to public. |
1936 |
Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from S Afr in record 4d16h |
1937 |
63rd Preakness: Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4 |
1938 |
Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium |
1940 |
German armoured division moves into Northern France |
1940 |
German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders |
1940 |
Nazis capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP) |
1940 |
USS Sailfish (SS-192) recomisioned, origionaly the Squalus. |
1940 |
McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. |
1941 |
1st British turbojet flies |
1941 |
British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya |
1941 |
Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1 |
1941 |
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music |
1942 |
Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States) |
1942 |
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrest 2,000 Dutch officers |
1943 |
Halifax bombers sinks U-463 |
1943 |
Warsaw ghetto uprising ends in its destruction |
1943 |
Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). |
1944 |
14,000 Jews of Munkacs, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz |
1944 |
Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0 |
1944 |
Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan |
1944 |
Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne |
1945 |
World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. |
1948 |
28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends |
1948 |
74th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4 |
1948 |
Australia scores 721 runs in one day v Essex, world record |
1948 |
Bradman scores 187 Aust v Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five |
1948 |
Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel |
1951 |
AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders |
1951 |
The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum. |
1952 |
Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0 |
1952 |
Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners |
1953 |
Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago |
1953 |
Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam |
1954 |
KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast |
1955 |
Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins |
1955 |
KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1955 |
Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restore Austria's independence |
1955 |
The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain. |
1957 |
18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade |
1957 |
1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) |
1958 |
USSR launches Sputnik III |
1959 |
100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest |
1960 |
Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0 |
1960 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet premieres in Leningrad |
1960 |
KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed |
1960 |
Taxes took 25% of earnings in US |
1961 |
"Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19 |
1961 |
36 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
1961 |
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra |
1962 |
US marines arrive in Laos |
1963 |
Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched |
1963 |
Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer) |
1963 |
Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
1963 |
5th Grammy Awards: I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Robert Goulet wins |
1964 |
Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp |
1964 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1965 |
91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2 |
1965 |
Canadian Football Players Association organizes |
1965 |
Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
1966 |
1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset |
1966 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational |
1966 |
South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die |
1967 |
Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1967 |
Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman |
1968 |
"Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival |
1968 |
1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago |
1968 |
A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36 |
1968 |
Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host |
1969 |
Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court |
1970 |
Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals |
1970 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1970 |
Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College |
1970 |
South-Africa excluded from Olympic play |
1971 |
"70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances |
1971 |
97th Preakness: Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54 |
1971 |
Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed |
1971 |
Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast |
1972 |
Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md |
1972 |
"Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances |
1972 |
Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt) |
1972 |
Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control |
1972 |
The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control. |
1973 |
California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0 |
1974 |
Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed |
1974 |
Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president |
1974 |
Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed. |
1974 |
Beginning of the Ulster Workers' Council strike called by Ulster loyalists and unionists who were against the Sunningdale Agreement, which proposed the sharing of political power with Irish nationalists |
1975 |
11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4 |
1975 |
Emmy 2nd Daytime Award & Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
1976 |
102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55 |
1976 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1976 |
Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91 |
1976 |
Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85 |
1976 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks |
1976 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill 3 Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers in County Fermanagh and 1 in County Down |
1977 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
1980 |
1st trans-US balloon crossing |
1980 |
Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs |
1980 |
Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA |
1981 |
"Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs |
1981 |
2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC) |
1981 |
George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK |
1981 |
Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto |
1981 |
SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC |
1981 |
Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6 |
1982 |
108th Preakness: Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4 |
1983 |
Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
1983 |
Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion |
1985 |
Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
1986 |
Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years |
1987 |
1st Energiya Launch (USSR) |
1987 |
Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set |
1988 |
"Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1988 |
"Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 perfs |
1988 |
2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman |
1988 |
USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan |
1988 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
1989 |
"Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances |
1989 |
Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston |
1989 |
Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs |
1989 |
US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule |
1989 |
Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers |
1990 |
"Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 perfs |
1990 |
"Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent van Gogh sold for $82.5 million |
1990 |
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45 |
1990 |
Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period |
1990 |
Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe |
1991 |
Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama" |
1991 |
Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier |
1991 |
Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
1991 |
Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns |
1991 |
President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game |
1991 |
Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11) |
1992 |
Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy |
1992 |
NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores |
1992 |
Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue |
1993 |
119th Preakness: Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6 |
1993 |
Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens |
1993 |
Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub |
1994 |
40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies |
1995 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1997 |
ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com |
1997 |
STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission |
2007 |
42nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley wins |
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. |
2009 |
The French Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies announce that French gross domestic product shrank 1.2% in the first quarter of 2009 after falling by 1.5% in the final quarter of 2008; the French economy had avoided narrowly a recession in 2008 |
2009 |
Eurostat report that Austria, Belgium, and Romania have all entered recession in the first quarter of 2009 |
2010 |
Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. |
2010 |
136th Preakness: Martin Garcia aboard Lookin At Lucky wins in 1:55.47 |
2012 |
Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession |
2012 |
Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled |
2013 |
The Eurozone records a recession for the sixth straight quarter |
2013 |
Chelsea defeats Benfica to win the UEFA Europa League |
2016 |
Bus Rollover in Texas Kills 8 and Injures 43 |
2016 |
Beijing blasts Pentagon report on Chinese military as damaging trust |
2017 |
Jeter's No 2 retired by Yanks; Monument Park plaque unveiled |
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