May 15
Today is the 135th day of 2017, there are 230 days left in the year.
1776 - Virginia authorized its delegation to the Continental Congress to support independence from Britain.
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress.
1886 - Poet Emily Dickinson died at age 55.
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.
1930 - On a Boeing Air Transport (forerunner of United Airlines) Flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
1942 - Wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 Eastern states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles.
1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new nation of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1955 - The United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France signed the Austrian State Treaty, which re-established Austria's independence.
1963 - Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program.
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 - Just after midnight, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, were killed as police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency in Laurel, Maryland by Arthur H. Bremer. (Bremer served 35 years in prison for attempted murder.)
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.
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 built the Christian right into a political force, died in Lynchburg, Virginia 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 state supreme court ruled that 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.
Birthdays
27 - Stella Maxwell (model)
30 - Andy Murray (tennis player)
32 - Ashlynn Yennie (actress)
35 - Alexandra Breckenridge (actress)
36 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler (actress)
42 - Ray Lewis (football player)
46 - Sarah Hadland (actress)
48 - Emmitt Smith (football player)
50 - Madhuri Dixit (actress)
64 - George Brett (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - May 15
1862 - Brooklyn's Union Grounds opened. It was the first enclosed baseball park.
1918 - Washington Senators' Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18-inning game.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The league also announced that the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings would be joining the following November.
1935 - The Pittsburgh Pirates routed the Philadelphia Phillies 20-5.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his major league record 56-game hitting streak.
1959 - 100th anniversary of first college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams; Teams re-enact the original contest.
1970 - South Africa is banned from Olympic competition due to its stance on apartheid.
1973 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels recorded the first no-hitter of his career.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush took Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to a Major League Baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Oakland Athletics.
1993 - The Montreal Expos retired Rusty Staub's #10.
1993 - The Alamodome opened in San Antonio, Texas.
1995 - The Vancouver Canucks set an NHL playoff record when Christian Ruutu and Geoff Courtnall scored shorthanded goals only 17 seconds apart.
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.
Today is the 135th day of 2017, there are 230 days left in the year.
1776 - Virginia authorized its delegation to the Continental Congress to support independence from Britain.
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress.
1886 - Poet Emily Dickinson died at age 55.
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.
1930 - On a Boeing Air Transport (forerunner of United Airlines) Flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
1942 - Wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 Eastern states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles.
1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new nation of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1955 - The United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France signed the Austrian State Treaty, which re-established Austria's independence.
1963 - Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program.
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 - Just after midnight, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, were killed as police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency in Laurel, Maryland by Arthur H. Bremer. (Bremer served 35 years in prison for attempted murder.)
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.
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 built the Christian right into a political force, died in Lynchburg, Virginia 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 state supreme court ruled that 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.
Birthdays
27 - Stella Maxwell (model)
30 - Andy Murray (tennis player)
32 - Ashlynn Yennie (actress)
35 - Alexandra Breckenridge (actress)
36 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler (actress)
42 - Ray Lewis (football player)
46 - Sarah Hadland (actress)
48 - Emmitt Smith (football player)
50 - Madhuri Dixit (actress)
64 - George Brett (baseball player)
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Today in Sports History - May 15
1862 - Brooklyn's Union Grounds opened. It was the first enclosed baseball park.
1918 - Washington Senators' Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18-inning game.
1926 - The New York Rangers were officially granted a franchise in the NHL. The league also announced that the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings would be joining the following November.
1935 - The Pittsburgh Pirates routed the Philadelphia Phillies 20-5.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio began his major league record 56-game hitting streak.
1959 - 100th anniversary of first college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams; Teams re-enact the original contest.
1970 - South Africa is banned from Olympic competition due to its stance on apartheid.
1973 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels recorded the first no-hitter of his career.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush took Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to a Major League Baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Oakland Athletics.
1993 - The Montreal Expos retired Rusty Staub's #10.
1993 - The Alamodome opened in San Antonio, Texas.
1995 - The Vancouver Canucks set an NHL playoff record when Christian Ruutu and Geoff Courtnall scored shorthanded goals only 17 seconds apart.
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.
