About May 15
May 15, 2020 is the 136th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 273 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 15
- 392 –Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne.
- 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.
- 1755 –Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
- 1791 –Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
- 1796 –First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
- 1817 –Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1849 –Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
- 1862 –President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
- 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.
- 1891 –Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
- 1928 –Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
- 1929 –A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
- 1945 –World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1987 –The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
- 1991 –Edith Cresson becomes France’s first female prime minister.
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