{"id":4718,"date":"2023-05-15T00:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2023-05-09T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T10:19:48","slug":"history-of-15-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-15-may\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 15 May"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 15 May<\/h2>\n

1911<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.<\/p>\n

1916<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.<\/p>\n

1918<\/strong> – Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, began under the direction of the Post Office Department, which later became the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Postal Service.<\/p>\n

1926<\/strong> – Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in\u00a0Alaska\u00a0after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible\u00a0Norge<\/i>.<\/p>\n

1926<\/strong> – The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the\u00a0NHL. The\u00a0NHL\u00a0also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> – Ellen Church became the first female flight attendant.<\/p>\n

1940<\/strong> – Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the\u00a0U.S.<\/p>\n

1941<\/strong> – Joe DiMaggio began his historic\u00a0major league baseball\u00a0hitting streak of 56 games.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> – Gasoline rationing began in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong> – Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence.<\/p>\n

1951<\/strong> – AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders.<\/p>\n

1957<\/strong> – Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

1958<\/strong> –\u00a0Sputnik III<\/i>, the first space laboratory, was launched in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> – The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.<\/p>\n

1964<\/strong> – The Smothers Brothers, Dick, and Tom, gave their first concert in Carnegie Hall in New York City.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Nixon\u00a0appointed America’s first two female generals.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong> – Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> – Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel,\u00a0MD\u00a0while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> – The merchant ship\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Mayaguez was recaptured from Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge.<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong> – The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the\u00a0United States\u00a0took place.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – In Boston, MA, the Madison Hotel was destroyed by implosion.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – The Soviet Union began the withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> – Vincent Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Doctor Gachet” was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record.<\/p>\n

1997<\/strong> – The Space shuttle\u00a0Atlantis<\/i>\u00a0blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia’s orbiting\u00a0Mir<\/i>\u00a0station.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> – The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong> – The National September 11 Memorial Museum was dedicated in New York City.<\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
    \n
  • 1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Patrice Evra, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Zara Phillips, English horse rider<\/li>\n
  • 1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress, and singer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rafael P\u00e9rez, Dominican baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Layal Abboud, Lebanese singer<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jeff Deslauriers, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0S\u00e9rgio Jimenez, Brazilian race car driver<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Samantha Noble, Australian actress<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Beau Scott, Australian rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mr. Probz, Dutch singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer\u00a0<\/sup><\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cristiane, Brazilian footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tania Cagnotto, Italian diver<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Laura Harvey, English football coach<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Denis Onyango, Ugandan goalkeeper<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Justine Robbeson, South African javelin thrower<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Thomas Brown, American football player<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mat\u00edas Fern\u00e1ndez, Chilean footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Adam Moffat, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0David Adams, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Michael Brantley, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Brian Dozier, American baseball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Mark Fayne, American ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Ersan \u0130lyasova, Turkish basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Leonardo Mayer, an Argentinian tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Andy Murray, a Scottish tennis player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player<\/li>\n
  • 1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Scott Laird, English footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, French footballer<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lee Jong-hyun, Korean guitarist<\/li>\n
  • 1990<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Birdy, English singer-songwriter<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, French footballer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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