May 15
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress.
1911 - The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the U.S. Supreme Court under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1918 - The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, D.C. with a stop at Philadelphia.
1928 - The Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut in the silent animated short “Plane Crazy.”
1930 - Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its unanimous In re Gault decision, ruled that juveniles accused of crimes were entitled to the same due process afforded adults.
1969 - Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.
1970 - Two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Maryland.
1975 - U.S. forces invaded the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and captured the American merchant ship Mayaguez, which had been seized by the Khmer Rouge. (All 39 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia; some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in connection with the operation.)
1988 - The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
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.
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.
2003 - Texas Democrats returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma in a dispute over a redistricting plan.
2006 - A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity, insisting he was still the country's president.
2006 - The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states.
2007 - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who helped build the Christian right into a political force, died at age 73.
2007 - Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died at age 51.
2008 - California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the state could marry – a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned by the passage of Proposition 8 the following November.
2009 - General Motors told about 1,100 dealers their franchises would be terminated.
2015 - A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and left more than 250 wounded.
2017 - The United States accused Syria of executing thousands of imprisoned political opponents and burning their bodies in a crematorium to hide the evidence.
2017 - The Supreme Court shut the door on North Carolina Republicans’ effort to revive a state law that mandated voter identification and scaled back early voting, provisions that a lower court said improperly targeted minority voters.
2020 - President Donald Trump formally unveiled a coronavirus vaccine program he called “Operation Warp Speed,” to speed development of COVID-19 vaccines and quickly distribute them around the country.
2021 - China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time, in the latest step forward for its ambitious goals in space.
Birthdays
32 - Stella Maxwell (model)
35 - Andy Murray (tennis player)
40 - Alexandra Breckenridge (actress)
41 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler (actress)
44 - David Krumholtz (actor)
44 - Amy Chow (gymnast)
47 - Ray Lewis (football player)
48 - Russell Hornsby (actor)
50 - David Charvet (actor)
52 - Brad Rowe (actor)
53 - Emmitt Smith (football player)
55 - Madhuri Dixit (actress)
59 - Brenda Bakke (actress)
69 - George Brett (baseball player)
72 - Nicholas Hammond (actor)
84 - Lenny Welch (singer)
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Today in Sports History - May 15
1918 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators pitches a complete 18-inning game in a 1-0 win.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games. The streak ended on July 17th.
1973 - Nolan Ryan (California Angels) pitched his first no-hitter.
1993 - The Montreal Expos retired Rusty Staub's #10.
1995 - The Vancouver Canucks set an NHL playoff record when Christian Ruutu and Geoff Courtnall scored shorthanded goals only 17 seconds apart.
1999 - Columbus Crew Stadium (now Historic Crew Stadium), the 1st Major League Soccer stadium constructed in the United States.
2012 - Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving was named NBA Rookie of the Year.
2016 - Rougned Odor (Texas Rangers) punched Jose Bautista (Toronto Blue Jays) in the face after Bautista made a hard slide into Odor at second base. Odor was suspended two days later for eight games. The suspension was eventually adjusted to seven games.
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress.
1911 - The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the U.S. Supreme Court under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1918 - The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, D.C. with a stop at Philadelphia.
1928 - The Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut in the silent animated short “Plane Crazy.”
1930 - Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its unanimous In re Gault decision, ruled that juveniles accused of crimes were entitled to the same due process afforded adults.
1969 - Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.
1970 - Two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Maryland.
1975 - U.S. forces invaded the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and captured the American merchant ship Mayaguez, which had been seized by the Khmer Rouge. (All 39 crew members had already been released safely by Cambodia; some 40 U.S. servicemen were killed in connection with the operation.)
1988 - The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
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.
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.
2003 - Texas Democrats returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma in a dispute over a redistricting plan.
2006 - A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity, insisting he was still the country's president.
2006 - The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states.
2007 - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who helped build the Christian right into a political force, died at age 73.
2007 - Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died at age 51.
2008 - California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the state could marry – a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned by the passage of Proposition 8 the following November.
2009 - General Motors told about 1,100 dealers their franchises would be terminated.
2015 - A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and left more than 250 wounded.
2017 - The United States accused Syria of executing thousands of imprisoned political opponents and burning their bodies in a crematorium to hide the evidence.
2017 - The Supreme Court shut the door on North Carolina Republicans’ effort to revive a state law that mandated voter identification and scaled back early voting, provisions that a lower court said improperly targeted minority voters.
2020 - President Donald Trump formally unveiled a coronavirus vaccine program he called “Operation Warp Speed,” to speed development of COVID-19 vaccines and quickly distribute them around the country.
2021 - China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time, in the latest step forward for its ambitious goals in space.
Birthdays
32 - Stella Maxwell (model)
35 - Andy Murray (tennis player)
40 - Alexandra Breckenridge (actress)
41 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler (actress)
44 - David Krumholtz (actor)
44 - Amy Chow (gymnast)
47 - Ray Lewis (football player)
48 - Russell Hornsby (actor)
50 - David Charvet (actor)
52 - Brad Rowe (actor)
53 - Emmitt Smith (football player)
55 - Madhuri Dixit (actress)
59 - Brenda Bakke (actress)
69 - George Brett (baseball player)
72 - Nicholas Hammond (actor)
84 - Lenny Welch (singer)
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Today in Sports History - May 15
1918 - Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators pitches a complete 18-inning game in a 1-0 win.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The NHL also announced that Chicago and Detroit would be joining the league in November.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his major league baseball hitting streak of 56 games. The streak ended on July 17th.
1973 - Nolan Ryan (California Angels) pitched his first no-hitter.
1993 - The Montreal Expos retired Rusty Staub's #10.
1995 - The Vancouver Canucks set an NHL playoff record when Christian Ruutu and Geoff Courtnall scored shorthanded goals only 17 seconds apart.
1999 - Columbus Crew Stadium (now Historic Crew Stadium), the 1st Major League Soccer stadium constructed in the United States.
2012 - Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving was named NBA Rookie of the Year.
2016 - Rougned Odor (Texas Rangers) punched Jose Bautista (Toronto Blue Jays) in the face after Bautista made a hard slide into Odor at second base. Odor was suspended two days later for eight games. The suspension was eventually adjusted to seven games.
