May 15

[Evon]

May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

There are 230 days remaining until the end of the year.


Days until elections:
daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html


U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/



495 BC A newly constructed temple in honour of the god Mercury was dedicated in ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills. To spite the senate and the consuls, the people awarded the dedication to a senior military officer, Marcus Laetorius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(mythology)

392 Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_II


589 King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I. A Catholic, she has great influence among the Lombard nobility.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_dynasty

Pope Innocent IV sends Dominicans and Franciscans out to the Tartars (Mongols)

1252 Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_IV

1455 A crusade against the Turks and for the capture of Constantinople was proclaimed by Pope Calixtus III.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Callixtus_III

Thomas Müntzer

1525 Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer

Anne Boleyn

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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn#Downfall_and_execution:_1536

1567 Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots


1602 Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first recorded European to see Cape Cod.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Gosnold

1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler

The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648 (1648) by Gerard ter Borch

1648 The Treaty of Westphalia is signed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia


1686 Rev. Robert Ratcliffe arrived in Boston from England, with orders from King Charles II to establish the Anglican Church in Massachusetts.

1701 The War of the Spanish Succession begins.

1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.

1755 Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laredo,_Texas

1776 American Revolution: The Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Conventions

Maximilien Robespierre

1791 French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance. During the French Revolution the Constituent Assembly, elected in 1789, passed a self-denying ordinance barring any member from sitting in its successor, the Legislative Assembly convened in 1791.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-denying_Ordinance_(French_Revolution)


1792 War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_First_Coalition


1793 Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights.

1796 First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.

1800 King George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hadfield


1811 Paraguay declares independence from Spain.

1817 Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_Hospital

Baily's beads

1836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse. The Baily's beads effect is a feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the Sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places, and not in others. The name is in honor of Francis Baily who first provided an exact explanation of the phenomenon in 1836.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baily%27s_beads

1849 Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily

Nathaniel Lyon

1850 The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Island_Massacre


1851 The first Australian gold rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made three months earlier.

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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture

Battle of Resaca, by Kurz and Allison, 1889.

1864 American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Resaca

"Cadets at New Market"

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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Market

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

1869 Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Woman_Suffrage_Association


1882 Temporary regulations regarding the Jews (also known as May Laws) were proposed by minister of internal affairs Nikolai Ignatyev and enacted on May 15 (May 3 O.S.), 1882, by the Emperor Alexander III of Russia. Originally, regulations of May 1882 were intended only as temporary measures until the revision of the laws concerning the Jews, but remained in effect for more than thirty years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Laws


1889 At the close of a two-day denominational conference in Cleveland, Ohio, the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized. It became the foundation of the current United Methodist Youth (UMY) fellowship programs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epworth_League

1891 Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIII
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rerum_novarum


1904 Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War#Blockade_of_Port_Arthur

1905 Las Vegas is founded, when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas


1911 In Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil_Co._of_New_Jersey_v._United_States

1911 Three hundred three Chinese and five Japanese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Francisco I. Madero's brother Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre%C3%B3n_massacre

1919 The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.

1919 Greek invasion of Smyrna. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades.

1925 Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.

Plane Crazy Mickey Mouse Classic Walt Disney 1928 Sound Cartoon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCZPzHg0h80
1928 Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse

1929 A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Clinic_fire_of_1929

USS Sailfish (SS-192), off the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, 13 April 1943

1940 USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sailfish_(SS-192)

The city of Rotterdam after the German bombing during the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940.

1940 World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_in_World_War_II

The oldest operating McDonald's restaurant was the third one built, opening in 1953. It is located at 10207 Lakewood Blvd. at Florence Ave. in Downey, California (at
33.9471°N 118.1182°W).

1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s

1941 First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_E.28/39

WAC Air Controller by Dan V. Smith, 1943.

1942 World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Army_Corps


1943 Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin

1943 German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'I read the Psalms every day, as I have done for years; I know them and love them more than any other book.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer


1945 World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poljana

1948 Following the demise of Mandatory Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

1951 The Polish cultural attaché in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.

2003 patch honoring Don Murphy and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the derby

1953 Cubmaster Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, in Manhattan Beach, California, by Pack 280c.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_derby


1957 At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

1958 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.

1960 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

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, and the last American to go into space alone.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_9


1966 After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất Đính, forcing him to abandon his command.

People's Park, Berkeley

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.

1970 Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.

1972 Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

1972 In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.

1974 Ma'alot massacre: Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack and take hostages at an Israeli school; a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27alot_massacre

1986 Elio de Angelis, was killed while testing the Brabham BT55 at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet.

1987 The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.

1988 Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

1991 Édith Cresson becomes France's first female premier.

1997 The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos_Memorial

2006 Cloud Gate was formally dedicated in Chicago's Millennium Park.

2008 California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

2010 Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

2013 An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.



Births

1567 Claudio Monteverdi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1643)

1608 René Goupil, French-American missionary (d. 1642)

1720 Maximilian Hell, Hungarian priest and astronomer (d. 1792)

1749 Levi Lincoln, Sr., American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Attorney General (d. 1820)

1816 Sylvanus Dryden Phelps, U.S. Baptist clergyman and poet. His several writings included the hymn, "Savior, Thy Dying Love."
www.hymnary.org/person/Phelps_SD
www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/p/h/phelps_sd.htm

1817 Debendranath Tagore, Indian philosopher (d. 1905)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debendranath_Tagore

1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden Major General (Union volunteers) (d October 23, 1893)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leonidas_Crittenden

1830 Laurence Simmons Baker officer in the United States Army on the frontier, then later a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, died in 1907
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_S._Baker


1841 Clarence Dutton, American commander and geologist (d. 1912)

1856 L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919) (Wizard of Oz)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum

1857 Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming , Scottish-American astronomer and academic. During her career, she helped develop a common designation system for stars and catalogued thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena. Fleming is especially noted for her discovery of the Horsehead Nebula in 1888 (d. 1911)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamina_Fleming

1860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Axson_Wilson


1870 Eddie Morton, American singer (d. 1930)

1889 Bessie Hillman labor activist and founder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She led the 1910 Chicago Garment Workers' Strike strike, which brought about the creation of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America labor union in 1914.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Abramowitz_Hillman

1890 Katherine Anne Porter, Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim. She is known for her penetrating insight; her work deals with dark themes such as betrayal, death and the origin of human evil. In 1990, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 2905 was placed in Brown County, Texas, to honor the life and career of Porter.[(d. 1980)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter

1891 Chief Nipo T Strongheart Yakima WA, US Indian actor (Pony Soldier)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipo_T._Strongheart

1892 Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral (d. 1977)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._Rosendahl


1894 Feg Murray, American hurdler (d. 1973)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feg_Murray

1895 Prescott Bush, American banker and politician. He was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush (41st President of the United States) and the grandfather of George W. Bush (43rd President of the United States) and Jeb Bush (43rd Governor of Florida).(d. 1972)

1895 William D. Byron, American politician (d. 1941)

1895 Astrid Zachrison, Swedish super-centenarian (d. 2008)

1902 Richard J. Daley, American politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)

1904 Clifton Fadiman, American game show host and author (Information Please, Quiz Kids) (d. 1999)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Fadiman


1905 Joseph Cotten, American actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse) (d. 1994)

1905 Abraham Zapruder, American businessman, filmed the Zapruder film (d. 1970)

1910 Constance Cummings, American-English actress (d. 2005)

Fuchs preparing for a role in 1949.

1911 Leo Fuchs Polish/US Yiddish actor (Galitzianer Cowboy) (d 1994)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Fuchs


1912 Arthur Berger, American composer and educator (d. 2003)

1915 Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate, author of the best-selling economics textbook of all time: Economics: An Introductory Analysis, first published in 1948. It was the second American textbook to explain the principles of Keynesian economics and how to think about economics, and the first one to be successful, and is now in its 19th edition, having sold nearly 4 million copies in 40 languages. (d. 2009)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Samuelson

1915 Bill Williams Brooklyn NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels) (d 1992)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Williams_(actor)

Eddy Arnold Cattle Call
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz90Cur_1cU
1918 Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor. American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music." (d. 2008)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Arnold


1918 Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (d. 2015)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jackson_(sport_shooter)

1918 Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (d. 2009)

1923 Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)

1925 Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (d. 2014)

1929 George Selden, American author (d. 1989)

1929 Peggy Pope Montclair NJ, actress (Billy, Mrs David-Soap)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Pope

1930 Jasper Johns, American painter

1931 Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2013)

1935 Don Bragg, American pole vaulter

Utah Phillips - Hallelujah I'm a Bum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0
1935 Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Phillips

1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Alberghetti


1936 Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist

1936 Donald [ Anthony] Moffitt US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)


1936 Paul Zindel, American author, playwright, and educator (d. 2003)

1937 Madeleine Albright, Czech-American politician, 64th United States Secretary of State
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright

Trini Lopez - Come A Little Bit Closer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4FRFjsHPy0
1937 Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and actor
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trini_Lopez


1937 Joe Tait, American sportscaster

1938 Nancy Garden, American author (d. 2014)

1938 Diane Nash, American educator and activist

Lenny Welch Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSDeDHTj84
1938 Lenny Welch, American singer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Welch


1940 Paul Rudd Boston MA, actor (Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan_Rudd

1940 Roger Ailes, American businessman, president of Fox News Channel, and chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush and for Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign (1989).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes


1940 Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer

1940 Don Nelson, American basketball player and coach

1941 Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher, co-founded the Rip Off Press (d. 2006)

1942 Lois Johnson, American singer (d. 2014)

1942 K. T. Oslin, American singer-songwriter and actress

1943 Freddie Perren, American songwriter, producer, and conductor (d. 2004)

1944 Bill Alter, American politician

1948 Kathleen Sebelius, American politician, 44th Governor of Kansas

1949 George Adams, American basketball player

1949 Frank L. Culbertson, Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut

1950 Nicholas Hammond, American-Australian actor and singer

1951 Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (Toto, Angel, and Le Roux) (d. 2014)

1951 Frank Wilczek, American mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1952 Chazz Palminteri, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

1952 Phil Seymour, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1993)

1953 George Brett, American baseball player and coach

1954 Suzanne Basso, American murderer (d. 2014)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Basso


1954 Diana Liverman, English-American geographer and academic

1955 Lee Horsley, American actor

1956 Dan Patrick, American sportscaster

1957 Meg Gardiner, American-English author

1957 Kevin Von Erich, American wrestler

1957 Ashutosh Varshney, American political scientist

1958 Ron Simmons, American football player and wrestler

1959 Beverly Jo Scott, American-Belgian singer-songwriter

1960 Rob Bowman, American director and producer

1961 Melle Mel, American rapper (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)

1963 Brenda Bakke, American actress

1967 Laura Hillenbrand, American journalist and author

1967 John Smoltz, American baseball player and sportscaster

1969 Hideki Irabu, Japanese-American baseball player (d. 2011)

1969 Emmitt Smith, American football player and sportscaster

1970 Desmond Howard, American football player and sportscaster

1970 Anne Akiko Meyers, American violinist

1970 Rod Smith, American football player

1971 Phil Pfister, American weightlifter and strongman

1972 Conrad Keely, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead)

1974 Ahmet Zappa, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

1975 Ray Lewis, American football player and sportscaster

1976 Torraye Braggs, American basketball player

1976 Ryan Leaf, American football player and coach

1976 Tyler Walker, American baseball player

1978 Amy Chow, American gymnast

1978 David Krumholtz, American actor

1978 Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995)

1979 Ryan Max Riley, American humorist and skier

1979 Robert Royal, American football player

1980 Josh Beckett, American baseball player

1980 Rocky Marquette, American actor

1981 Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress and singer

1982 Alexandra Breckenridge, American actress

1982 Bradford Cox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Deerhunter)

1982 Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player

1982 Jessica Sutta, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)

1986 Thomas Brown, American football player

1987 Mark Fayne, American ice hockey player

1987 Michael Brantley, American baseball player

1987 Mark Fayne, American ice hockey player

1987 David Adams, American baseball player

1987 Brian Dozier, American baseball player

1991 Mollee Gray, American actress, singer, and dancer

1997 Precious Doe, American murder victim (d. 2001)



Deaths

913 Hatto I, German archbishop (b. 850)

1174 Nur ad-Din Zangi, Syrian ruler (b. 1118)

1700 John Hale, American minister (b. 1636)

1773 Alban Butler, English priest and hagiographer (b. 1710)

1810 Jacob Thompson United States Secretary of the Interior, who resigned on the outbreak of the American Civil War, to become Inspector General of the Confederate States Army, died in 1885.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Thompson

1886 Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson


1842 Josiah Thomas Walls (b December 30, 1842) Republican United States congressman who served three separate terms in the U.S. Congress between 1871 and 1876. He was one of the first African Americans in the United States Congress elected during the Reconstruction Era, and the first black person to be elected to Congress from Florida. He also served four terms in the Florida Senate.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_T._Walls

1945 Henry A. Courtney, Jr.US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_A._Courtney,_Jr.

1948 Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Flanagan


1954 William March, American author (b. 1893)

1967 Edward Hopper, American painter (House by Railroad) (b. 1882)

1976 Samuel Eliot Morison US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Eliot_Morison


1980 Gordon Prange, American author (b. 1910)

1982 Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)

1984 Francis Schaeffer, American pastor, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1912)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer


1986 Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1915)

1989 Johnny Green, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)

1992 Barbara Lee, American singer (The Chiffons) (b. 1947)

1994 Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor (b. 1905)

1996 Charles B. Fulton, American lawyer and judge (b. 1910)

1998 Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)

2003 June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (b. 1929)

2007 Jerry Falwell, American pastor, founded Liberty University (b. 1933)

2007 Yolanda King, American actress and activist (b. 1955)

2008 Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (b. 1919)

2008 Astrid Zachrison, Swedish super-centenarian (b. 1895)

2009 Rodger McFarlane, American soldier, therapist, and activist (b. 1955)

2009 Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)

2011 Barbara Stuart, American actress (b. 1930)

2012 Jean Craighead George, American author (b. 1919)

2013 Linden Chiles, American actor (b. 1933)

2014 Robert J. Flynn, American soldier, pilot, and navigator (b. 1937)

2015 Elisabeth Bing, German-American physical therapist and author (b. 1914)

2015 Jackie Brookner, American sculptor and educator (b. 1945)


Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Achillius of Larissa

Athanasius of Alexandria (Coptic Church)

Dymphna

Hallvard Vebjørnsson (Norway)

Hilary of Galeata

Isidore the Laborer, celebrated with festivals in various countries, the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid.

Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (Roman Catholic Church)

Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Denise (Roman Catholic Church)

Reticius (Roman Catholic Church)

Sophia of Rome (Roman Catholic church)



May 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Saints

The Seven Apostolic Men, Martyr Bishops, ordained in Rome by Saints Peter and Paul and sent to evangelize Spain (1st century):
Saints Torquatus, Ctesiphon, Secundus, Indaletius, Caecilius, Hesychius, and Euphrasius

Saint Achillios, Bishop of Larissa (330)

Saint Pachomius the Great, founder of cenobitic monasticism (348)

Saint Silvanus of Tabennisi (in the Thebaid) (4th century)

Saint Barbarus the Myrrh-gusher of Greece (c. 820 - 829)

Saint Panegyrios of Cyprus (Panigerios, Panegyrius), Wonderworker of Malounta


Pre-Schism Western Saints

Martyrs Cassius, Victorinus, Maximus, and their companions, in the Auvergne in France (c. 264)

Martyr Simplicius, Bishop, in Sardinia (c. 284-305)

Virgin recluse Caesarea of Otranto

Saint Hilary of Galeata (Hilary of Tuscany), founder of the monastery called Galeata, later known as Sant'Ilaro (Sant'Ellero di Galeata) (558)

Saint Colmán of Oughaval (Colman mac Ua Laoighse, Colman Mc O'Laoighse), a disciple of St Columba and St Fintan of Clonenagh (6th century)

Virgin-martyr Dymphna of Geel, Flanders (c. 650)

Saint Waldalenus, founder of monastery of Bèze in France (7th century)

Saint Bercthun (Bertin), a disciple of St John of Beverley and first Abbot of Beverley in England (733)

Saint Bertha of Bingen (c. 757), and her son Saint Rupert of Bingen (732)


Post-Schism Orthodox Saints

Saint Isaiah of Rostov, Bishop and Wonderworker (1090)

Saint Isaiah of the Kiev Caves, wonderworker (1115)

Saint Andrew the Hermit, of Mt. Kalana, Epirus, wonderworker (c. 1237 - 1271

Saint Pachomius of Nerekhta, abbot (1384),[20][21] and Saint Silvanus of Nerekhta (1384)

Saint Euphrosynus of Pskov (Eleazar), abbot and wonderworker (1481)

Saint Serapion of Pskov, disciple of St Euphrosynus of Pskov (1481)

Saint Pachomius of Keno Lake Monastery (1525)

Saint Demetrius of Moscow the Wonderworker, Slain Crown Prince (1591)

Saint Macarius (Glukharev) of the Altai, Archimandrite (1847)

Saint Arethas of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1903)


New Martyrs and Confessors

New Hieromartyrs:

Archbishop Pachomius (Kedrov) of Chernigov (1938)

his brother, Archbishop Abercius (Kedrov) of Zhitomir (1937)

their father, Priest Nicholas Kedrov (1936)

their brother-in-law, Priest Vladimir Zagarsky (1937)


Other commemorations

Discovery of the revered icon of Kamoulianos "Acheiropoieta" ("made without human hands").

Translation of the sacred relics of the Holy Apostle Titus of Crete, from Venice (which had taken the relics in 1669), back to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Crete (1966)

Uncovering of the relics (1846) of Saint Tikhon, Bishop of Voronezh, wonderworker of Zadonsk (1783)















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