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The following events took place on May 15. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 75 events. Showing 31 - 60.

• 1869

  Women’s suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• 1891

  Pope Leo XIII defends workers’ rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
• 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.
• 1905

  Las Vegas, is founded when 110 acre, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
• 1911

  In Standard Oil Co. 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.
• 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.
• 1919

  The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg 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.
• 1928

  Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy.
• 1929

  A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• 1932

  In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
• 1934

  Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
• 1935

  The Moscow Metro is opened to the public.
• 1940

  USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
• 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.
• 1940

  McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
• 1941

  First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
• 1941

  Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
• 1942

  World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
• 1943

  Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
• 1945

  World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
• 1948

  Following the expiration of The British Mandate for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
• 1951

  The Polish cultural attaché in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
• 1953

  Cubmaster Don Murphy organized the first pinewood derby, in Manhattan Beach, California, by Pack 280c.
• 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.
• 1963

  Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut 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.
• 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.

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