About May 15
May 15, 2022 is the 135th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 252 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 15
- 1252 –Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
- 1525 –The battle of Frankenhausen ends the German Peasants’ War.
- 1602 –Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
- 1648 –The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
- 1791 –Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
- 1850 –The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
- 1858 –Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
- 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”.
- 1919 –The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
- 1935 –The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
- 1940 –USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
- 1948 –Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
- 1951 –The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
- 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.
- 1991 –Edith Cresson becomes France’s first female prime minister.
- 1997 –The United States government acknowledges the existence of the “Secret War” in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other “Secret War” veterans.
- 2010 –Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
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