About May 15
May 15, 2023 is the 135th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 271 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.
- 1536 –Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
- 1602 –Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.
- 1791 –Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
- 1793 –Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for “about 360 meters”, at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted .
- 1858 –Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
- 1929 –A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
- 1934 –Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2010 –Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
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