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Events from History on May 15

1004 : Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
1213 : English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
1248 : Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for K”ln cathedral
1492 : Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1525 : German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
1536 : Anna Boleyn & Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest
1567 : Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
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 V”cklamarkt Upper-Austria
1648 : Treaty of Mnster: Spain & Netherlands ratified
1665 : Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme
1672 : 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1702 : War of Spanish Succession, 1st Amer conflict between England & France
1718 : James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1730 : Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)
1796 : France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
1796 : French troops occupy Milan
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, under T Matulesia
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 : Department of Agriculture created
1862 : Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his 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 Govt of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
1869 : National Woman Suffrage Assn forms
1882 : May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
1883 : Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany
1885 : Canadian M‚ti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan
1891 : British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
1891 : Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
1891 : Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
1891 : Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum
1896 : Tornado kills 78 in Texas
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
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)
1914 : Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris
1915 : A T & T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1916 : Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
1918 : 1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)
1918 : 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated
1918 : Greeks troops lands at Smyrna
1920 : Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
1923 : Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
1926 : British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1928 : Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance
1929 : Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
1930 : Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
1931 : Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
1933 : 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1934 : Dept 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
1936 : Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from S Afr in record 4d16h
1938 : Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
1940 : 1st nylon stockings sold in US
1940 : 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
1940 : German armour division moves into Northern France
1940 : German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
1940 : Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
1940 : Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US)
1940 : Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris
1941 : 1st British turbojet flies
1941 : British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1941 : Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid Jewish music
1942 : Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
1942 : Nazi occupiers in Neth arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
1943 : Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1943 : Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
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
1948 : 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
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
1952 : Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0
1952 : Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1953 : Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago
1953 : Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
1953 : Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in 1 for heavywgt boxing title
1954 : KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 : Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again
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: Brit, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence
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 : 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 : 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)
1964 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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 : South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
1967 : Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
1968 : "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
1968 : A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
1968 : Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host
1968 : Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote
1969 : Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1970 : Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
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 : Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
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 : George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972 : Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
1973 : Calif Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
1974 : Mail truck terrorists take school in Ma„lot, 30 killed
1974 : Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
1975 : 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 : Emmy 2nd Daytime Award & Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1976 : Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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 : SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC
1981 : Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
1983 : Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1985 : E Bowell find asteroid 4152 Weber, 4934 Rhoneranger, 5948 Longo & 7998
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 : Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan
1988 : Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan
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 : 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 $825 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 : Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
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 : Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
1993 : Jane Seymour & James Kesch, Marriage
1994 : 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1995 : China PR 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
1999 : 125th Preakness
2002 : Two persons killed and 70 injured when a train derails near Nagpur.

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