Today in History
What happened on the 15th of May in history?
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- 1602
Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Batholomew Gosnold
- 1618
Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
- 1753
Whitsunday Term Day
- 1836
Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
- 1856
2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
- 1886
American poet Emily Dickinson died
- 1911
Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act
- 1918
US Airmail service begins (Wash DC - Philadelphia & NY)
- 1930
Ellen Church 1st airline stewardess United flight SF to Cheyenne
- 1934
Dept of Justice offers $25 -000 reward for Dillinger - dead or alive
- 1940
1st nylon stockings sold in US
- 1941
Yanks win 13-1 Joe DiMaggio starts 56 game hitting streak
- 1957
18 -000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
- 1958
USSR launched Sputnik III
- 1963
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7 - end US Project Mercury
- 1969
Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigned from Supreme Court
- 1972
Ryukyu Islands returned to Japan after 27 years of US control
- 1972
George C Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer
- 1975
11th Mayor's Trophy Game - Yanks beat Mets 9-4
- 1980
Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
- 1981
Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
- 1981
Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6