SomeFacts | May 15

On this day - May 15

221 — Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han, ...

392 — Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into ...

589 — King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke ...

756 — Abd al-Rahman I, the founder of the Arab dynasty that ruled the ...

1194 — Michael the Syrian reconsecrates the Mor Bar Sauma Monastery, ...

1252 — Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which ...

1525 — Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer ...

1536 — Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on ...

1602 — Cape Cod is sighted by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.

1618 — Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of ...

1648 — The Peace of Münster is ratified, by which Spain acknowledges ...

1725 — Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Ich bin ein ...

1791 — French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the ...

1817 — Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the ...

1836 — Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during ...

1849 — The Sicilian revolution of 1848 is finally extinguished.

1850 — The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the ...

1851 — The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the ...

1864 — American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students ...

1891 — Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights ...

1905 — The city of Las Vegas is founded in Nevada, United States.

1911 — More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón ...

1911 — In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United ...

1916 — A seventeen-year-old farmworker, Jesse Washington, is ...

1918 — The Finnish Civil War ends when the Whites took over Fort Ino, ...

1919 — Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek ...

1919 — The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole ...

1929 — A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.

1932 — In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan ...

1933 — All military aviation organizations within or under the ...

1934 — A self coup by prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis succeeded in ...

1940 — Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's ...

1940 — World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands: After fierce ...

1940 — USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS ...

1941 — First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and ...

1942 — World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the ...

1943 — Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).

1945 — World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in ...

1948 — Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, ...

1957 — At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first ...

1963 — Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, ...

1970 — President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth ...

1972 — The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its ...

1974 — Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the ...

1976 — Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes near Viktorivka, Chernihiv Raion, ...

1988 — Soviet–Afghan War: After more than eight years of fighting, ...

1991 — Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime ...

1997 — The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the ...

1997 — The United States government acknowledges the existence of the ...

2001 — A CSX EMD SD40-2 8888 rolls out of a train yard in Walbridge, ...

2004 — Arsenal F.C. go an entire league campaign unbeaten in the ...

2008 — California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts ...

2010 — Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop ...

2013 — An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people ...

2023 — The UN commemorates the Palestinian Nakba Day for the first ...

2024 — Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico is shot and critically ...