Events In History ----- May 15th ----- MsPriss©   Author:  44960  Category:(History) Created:(5/15/2008 7:37:00 PM) This post has been Viewed (146 times) May 15th - Day 136 of 2008 - 230 Days till 2009 1492 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse. 1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold. 1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts. 1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun. 1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London. 1862 - Department of Agriculture created. 1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms. 1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas. 1902 - Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft. 1905 - Las Vegas, NV founded. 1918 - 1st regular airmail service (between New York, Philadelphia & Washington DC) inaugurated. 1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance. 1930 - Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Fransisco to Cheyenne) 1934 - Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive. 1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300. 1940 - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (US) 1941 - 1st British turbojet flies. 1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles 1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan. 1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel. 1951 - AT&T became the first corporation to have one million stockholders. 1957 - 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island) 1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US. 1967 - Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman. 1968 - A tornado strikes Jonesboro AR at 10 PM, killing 36. 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot. 1983 - Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion. 1989 - Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right to lifers. 1990 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" was sold for $82.5 million. The sale set a new world record. 1991 - President Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game. 1992 - Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue. 1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin. You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here Scroll all the way down to read replies. Show all stories by   Author:  44960 ( Click here ) Spring is coming