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Today on May 15th In History.
What Happened This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
May 15
May 15
| 756 | Abd-al-Rahman is proclaimed emir of Cordoba, Spain. | |
| 1213 | King John submits to the Pope, offering to make England and Ireland papal fiefs. Pope Innocent III lifts the interdict of 1208. | |
| 1602 | English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold discovers Cape Cod. | |
| 1614 | An aristocratic uprising in France ends with treaty of St. Menehould. | |
| 1618 | Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law. | |
| 1702 | The War of Spanish Succession begins. | |
| 1730 | Following the resignation of Lord Townshend, Robert Walpole becomes the sole minister in the English cabinet. | |
| 1768 | By the Treaty of Versailles, France purchases Corsica from Genoa. | |
| 1795 | Napoleon enters the Lombardian capital of Milan in triumph. | |
| 1820 | The U.S. Congress designates the slave trade a form of piracy. | |
| 1849 | Neapolitan troops enter Palermo, Sicily. | |
| 1862 | The Union ironclad Monitor and the gunboat Galena fire on Confederate troops at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. | |
| 1864 | At the Battle of New Market, Virginia Military Institute cadets repel a Union attack. | |
| 1886 | Emily Dickinson dies in Amherst, Mass., where she had lived in seclusion for the previous 24 years. | |
| 1916 | U.S. Marines land in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder. | |
| 1918 | Pfc. Henry Johnson and Pfc. Needham Roberts receive the Croix de Guerre for their services in World War I. They are the first Americans to win France's highest military medal. | |
| 1930 | Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess. | |
| 1942 | The United States begins rationing gasoline. | |
| 1958 | Sputnik III is launched by the Soviet Union. | |
| 1963 | The last Project Mercury space flight, carrying Gordon Cooper, is launched. | |
| 1968 | U.S. Marines relieve army troops in Nhi Ha, South Vietnam after a fourteen-day battle. | |
| 1972 | George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland. | |
| 1975 | The merchant ship Mayaguez is recaptured from Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. | |
| 1988 | Soviets forces begin their withdrawal from Afghanistan. | |
| Born on May 15 | ||
| 1773 | Prince Clemens Von Metternich, Chancellor of Austria. | |
| 1856 | Lyman Frank Baum, author (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz). | |
| 1858 | Emily Folger, Shakespeare scholar. | |
| 1859 | Pierre Curie, physicist. | |
| 1860 | Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. | |
| 1890 | Katherine Anne Porter, novelist (Ship of Fools). | |
| 1891 | Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist (Notes of a Dead Man, Heart of a Dog). | |
| 1902 | Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago through the 1960s and early 1970's. | |
| 1923 | Richard Avedon, photographer. | |
| 1926 | Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (Sleuth), twin brother of Peter Shaffer. | |
| 1926 | Peter Shaffer, English playwright (Equus, Amadeus), twin brother of Anthony Shaffer. | |
| 1930 | Jasper Johns, Jr., painter, leader of the Pop Art movement. | |
