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
- 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.
- 1567 –Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
- 1648 –The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
- 1701 –The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
- 1793 –Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted .
- 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.
- 1919 –Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.
- 1919 –The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
- 1928 –Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
- 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.
- 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.
- 1972 –In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to be become President.
- 1972 –The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
- 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.
- 2010 –Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
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