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Today in History ~ May 15
Peace Officer Memorial Day
Events
1213 - English King John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
1248 - Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln (Cologne) cathedral
1492 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1525 - German army surrounds and slaughters 5,000; ends war
1536 - Anna Boleyn & Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest/treason
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1610 - Parlement of Paris appoints Louis XIII age 8 as French king
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1625 - 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Varcklamarkt Upper Austria
1665 - Pope Alexander VII condemns Jansenism
1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1702 - War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1756 - The Seven Years' War Begins A global conflict known as the French and Indian War in America. [H]
1800 - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
1829 - Joseph Smith "ordained" by John the Baptist -- according to Joseph Smith. Mormon church is founded.
1856 - 2nd San Francisco Vigilance Committee organized.
1862 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
1862 - Department of Agriculture created
1862 - General Benjamin F ("Beast") Butler decrees "Woman Order" that all captured women in New Orleans to be his whores
1862 - -May 17] Battle of Princeton WV
1864 - Battle of New Market, Virginia [H]
1882 - May Laws -- Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
1891 - Jules Massenet's opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
1891 - Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1911 - The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Co., ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1912 - Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
1915 - A T & T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1918 - 1st regular U.S. airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York inaugurated
1929 - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland)
1930 - Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess, flying on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne, Wyo.
1933 - 1st voice amplification system is used in US Senate
1934 - Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for John Dillinger, dead or alive
1940 - German armour division moves into Northern France
1940 - German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders
1940 - Nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.
1941 - 1st British turbojet flies [H]
1941 - Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1
1941 - Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music
1942 - Gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles.
1943 - Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1943 - Warsaw ghetto uprising ends in it's destruction by Nazi-SS troops
1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US (those were the days)
1961 - 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1962 - US marines "arrive" in Laos
1963 - Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, was launched into space atop an Atlas rocket and completed 22 orbits.
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1963 - Through a Proclamation issued by President John F. Kennedy, May 15th was designated as Peace Officer Memorial Day.
1964 - Tom and Dick Smothers make their debut at Carnegie Hall [H]
1966 - South Vietnamese army battles Buddhists, about 80 die
1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas, under fire for a money deal with jailed financier Louis Wolfson, resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court.
1970 - Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
1970 - South Africa excluded from Olympic play
1970 - 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.
1972 - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
1972 - George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1974 - Mail truck terrorists take school in Mailot, 30 killed
1980 - 1st trans-US balloon crossing
1983 - Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1986 - Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years
1988 - 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman
1988 - Soviet forces began their withdrawal from Afghanistan in compliance with the Geneva accords.
1989 - Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers
1989 - Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
1990 - At an auction, Japanese millionaire Ryoei Saito bid a record $82.5 million for Van Gogh's 1890 "Portait of Dr. Gachet." Two days later, he spent $78.1 million for Renoir's 1876 "Au Moulin De La Galette," also a record.
1991 - French President Francois Mitterrand appointed Edith Cresson, a Socialist and former trade minister, to be the first woman prime minister of France.
1991 - Defense releases documents claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama"
1991 - President Bush took Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Oakland Athletics (the queen left after two innings).
1992 - A judge in Los Angeles ordered police officer Laurence Powell retried on a charge of excessive force in the beating of Rodney King (however, the charge was eventually dropped).
1992 - The United States warned Saddam Hussein that allied military forces may "respond" if his troops attempt to repress Kurdish elections in northern Iraq.
1993 - Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
1993 - Bosnian Serbs voted in the first of two days of balloting on whether the Bosnian Serb parliament should accept a U.N peace plan for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1996 - Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole announced he was resigning from the Senate to concentrate full-time on his presidential campaign.
1997 - Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
1997 - Attorney General Janet Reno requested the death penalty for Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski. (However, under an arrangement in which he admitted his guilt, Kaczynski later agreed to be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.)
2000 - By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a key provision of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, saying that rape victims could not sue their attackers in federal court.
2000 - United Press International was sold to the parent company of The Washington Times.
2001 - Tens of thousands of Palestinians packed town squares in the West Bank town of Ramallah as they marked what they called the day of "catastrophe" in 1948, when they were uprooted and the state of Israel created.
2001 - A celebratory mood took hold of Japan after the palace formally announced that Crown Princess Masako was pregnant.
2001 - A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.
Birthdays Today
1567 - Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
1759 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
1764 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
1773 - Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince
1802 - Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1808 - Michael William Balfe, composer ("The Bohemian Girl")
1819 - Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
1856 - Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children's book author. Baum wrote a series of Oz books, but this was the Wizard of Oz was by far the most famous.
1859 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
1873 - Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
1894 - Jean Renoir, French director (La Bete Humane) [or Sept 15]
1902 - Richard Daley (politician: former mayor of Chicago)
1904 - Joseph Cotten (actor: film: Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Duel in the Sun, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Tora Tora Tora, Duel in the Sun; Broadway: The Philadelphia Story, Once More with Feeling)
1909 - James Mason (actor: A Star is Born, Georgy Girl, The Verdict, The Boys from Brazil, Charade, The Desert Fox, Island in the Sun, Jesus of Nazareth, North by Northwest, Lolita)
1910 - Constance Cummings (Halverstadt) (Tony Award-winning actress: Wings; Blithe Spirit, Busman's Honeymoon)
1910 - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65)
1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann)
1914 - Turk (Walter) Broda (Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL Vezina Trophy [1941, 1948, 1951]: Toronto Maple Leafs, goaltender for five Stanley Cup wins)
1918 - Eddy (Richard Edward) Arnold (The Tennessee Plowboy: Country Music Hall of Famer: Make the World Go Away, Kentucky Waltz, The Last Word in Lonesome is Me, I Want to Go with You, I Wouldn't Know Where to Begin, Bouquet of Roses; TV host)
1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Montreal, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
1923 - Ellis Larkins (pianist: a favorite accompanist of singers from Mildred Bailey to Ella Fitzgerald)
1923 - Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
1926 - Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
1926 - Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)
1930 - Jasper Johns (sculptor, painter: Flag)
1931 - Ken Venturi (golf: U.S. Open Champion [1964])
1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti (singer, Tony Award-winning actress: Carnival [1962]; Cinderfella)
1937 - Trini Lopez (singer: If I Had a Hammer, Lemon Tree, I'm Comin' Home Cindy; actor: The Dirty Dozen)
1938 - Lenny Welch (singer: Since I Fell for You, Ebb Tide, Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1939 - Dudley Wysong (golfer)
1940 - Beth Stone (golfer)
1940 - Don Nelson (basketball: Golden State Warriors coach)
1941 - Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
1945 - Jerry Quarry (boxer: former heavyweight champ)
1951 - Wally Chambers (football)
1952 - Maurice Spencer (football)
1953 - George Brett (baseball: Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame third baseman: 1980 batting average: .390; Baseball Writer's Award [1980])
1953 - Mike Oldfield (composer, musician: Tubular Bells; film score: Killing Fields)
1953 - Pat Hickey (hockey)
1969 - Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
1975 - Ray Lewis, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
Famous deaths
0392 - Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered at 21
1482 - Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
1591 - Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered at 9
1823 - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer, dies at 69
1833 - Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock), dies at 46
1842 - Emanuel A D M J Count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
1886 - Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies at 55
1952 - Italo Montemezzi, composer, dies at 76
1967 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
1976 - Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
1986 - Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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