About May 15
May 15, 2024 is the 136th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 259 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 15
- 1525 –The battle of Frankenhausen ends the German Peasants’ War.
- 1567 –Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
- 1618 –Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
- 1648 –The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
- 1776 –American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1796 –First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
- 1836 –Francis Baily observes “Baily’s beads” during an annular eclipse.
- 1858 –Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
- 1904 –The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan’s battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and “Yashima”.
- 1905 –Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acre, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
- 1935 –The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
- 1940 –McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
- 1940 –USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
- 1942 –World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
- 1945 –World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
- 1958 –The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
- 1960 –The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
- 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.
- 1970 –Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
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