Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 15
This is a list of selected May 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Kārlis Ulmanis
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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USCAR Building -
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Baily's beads observed during a solar eclipse in 1999
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| ; Constituent Assembly Day in Lithuania | no footnotes |
Teachers' Day in Mexico and South Korea;
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| Independence Day in Paraguay (1814); | outdated, multiple issues section |
| 1793 – Inventor Diego Marín Aguilera, the "father of aviation" in Spain, flew one of the first gliders for about 300 yd (270 m). | heavily reliant on unreliable sources |
| 1850 – Members of the United States 1st Cavalry Regiment massacred at least 135 Pomo in Lake County, California. | Conflicts with lead and infobox. The body says 60 Pomo on the island and 75 Indians on the Russian River |
| 1891 – Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum novarum, which addressed the condition of the working classes and is considered to be the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching. | primary sources |
| 1905 – Las Vegas was established as a railroad town, after 110 acres (0.45 km2) owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was auctioned off. | refimprove section |
| 1928 – Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their film debuts in the animated cartoon Plane Crazy. | M/M both: refimprove section; Plane Crazy: refimprove section |
| 1934 – Latvian Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis dissolved the Saeima and established an authoritarian rule. | needs expert attention, refimprove |
was assassinated in an attempted coup d'état by radical elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy .
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Smolenskaya .
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outdated |
| 1941 – Playing for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, Joe DiMaggio began a 56-game hitting streak, setting a record that still stands today. | trivial pop culture references |
ongoing conflict to begin the 1948 Arab–Israeli War .
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| 1955 – The Austrian State Treaty was signed in Vienna, re-establishing an independent Austria. | needs more footnots |
| 1974 – A unit of the Golani Brigade assaulted an elementary school in Ma'alot, Israel, where three armed members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine had taken 115 people hostage, resulting in 28 deaths. | refimprove section |
| 1991 – Édith Cresson became the only female prime minister of France. | unreferenced section |
| 1997 – During the dedication of the Laos Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, the United States first publicly acknowledged its role in the Laotian Civil War, which had ended 22 years earlier. | lots of CN tags (14) |
| Mleh, Prince of Armenia |d|1175 | missing page numbers |
| * 1525 – Insurgent peasants led by preacher Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War. | Tagged for lack of page numbers |
Eligible
- 1252 – Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull Ad extirpanda, authorizing the use of torture on heretics during the Medieval Inquisition.
- 1602 – Early English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold arrived on Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts.
- 1836 – English astronomer Francis Baily observed Baily's beads (example pictured), a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged topography of the lunar limb allows sunlight to shine through.
- 1869 – Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, breaking away from the American Equal Rights Association which they had also previously founded.
- 1911 – Mexican Revolution: A force of Maderistas captured Torreón and proceeded to massacre 303 of the city's Chinese residents.
- 1912 – During a match, baseball star Ty Cobb enters the stands and assaults a fan who had heckled him, leading to his suspension.
- 1945 – The British Army directed fleeing Croatian soldiers to surrender to the Yugoslav Partisans, beginning the Bleiburg repatriations.
- 1953 – Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, an event for Cub Scouts of the Boy Scouts of America where wooden cars built by the scouts are raced.
- 1957 – The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.
- 1966 – Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ordered an attack on his forces and ousted Đính from his post.
- 1970 – Police opened fire during a confrontation with a group of Jackson State College students, killing two students and injuring twelve others.
- 1972 – The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the U.S. occupation government was abolished.
- 1990 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction at Christie's in New York for US$82.5 million, making it the world's most expensive painting at the time.
- 2004 – Arsenal became the first football team in England's top flight to finish a season undefeated since Preston North End did so in 1888–1889.
- 2010 – Three days before her seventeenth birthday, Jessica Watson arrived in Sydney after sailing non-stop and unassisted around the world.
- Born/died: |Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban |baptised|1633| Levi Lincoln Sr. |b|1749| Klemens von Metternich |b|1773| Élie Metchnikoff |b|1845| Williamina Fleming |b|1857| E. Urner Goodman |b|1891| Ida Freund |d|1914| Jakucho Setouchi |b|1922| Lawrence Sabatini |b|1930| D. H. Turner |b|1931| Esther Fischer-Homberger |b|1940| Mohamed Brahmi |b|1955| Patrice Evra |b|1981| Jean-Luc Dehaene |d|2014 Elisabeth Bing|d|2015
Notes
- Kent State shootings appears on May 4, so Jackson State killings should not appear in the same year
- Israeli Declaration of Independence appears on May 14, so Arab–Israeli War should not appear in the same year
- Allied-occupied Austria appears on July 27, so Austrian State Treaty should not appear in the same year
May 15: Feast day of Saint Carthage (Catholicism); Nakba Day in Palestinian communities
Statue of Valentinian II
- 392 – Roman emperor Valentinian II (pictured) was found hanged in his residence in Vienne, in present-day France.
- 1855 – Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train travelling from London to Folkestone, England.
- 1864 – American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out of the Shenandoah Valley.
- Port Arthur, China.
- 1916 – Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas.
- Hilary of Galeata (d. 558)
- Emily Dickinson (d. 1886)
- K. M. Cariappa (d. 1993)