About May 15
May 15, 2025 is the 135th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 278 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 15
- 1701 –The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
- 1718 –James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun.
- 1796 –First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
- 1800 –George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
- 1891 –Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
- 1934 –Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
- 1935 –The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
- 1940 –McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
- 1951 –The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
- 1957 –At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
- 1958 –The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
- 1963 –Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
- 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.
- 1970 –President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
- 1987 –The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
- 1988 –Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- 1990 –Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
- 1991 –Edith Cresson becomes France’s first female prime minister.
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