May 15
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by 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 in Philadelphia.
1928 - The Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut in the silent animated short "Plane Crazy."
1930 - On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland, California and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
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, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon.
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that juveniles accused of crimes were entitled to the same due process rights afforded to adults.
1970 - Just after midnight, Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two Black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed as police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for the presidency in Laurel, Maryland, by Arthur H. Bremer. (Bremer was later sentenced to 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.
2000 - In 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.
2007 - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who built the Christian right into a political force, died in Lynchburg, Virginia at age 73.
2009 - General Motors told about 1,100 dealerships that their franchises would be terminated.
2013 - Under mounting pressure, President Barack Obama released a trove of documents related to the Benghazi attack and forced out the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following revelations the agency had targeted conservative political groups.
2015 - A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and left more than 250 wounded.
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.
2022 - Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the leading Democrat in the state's high-profile Senate contest, suffered a stroke but his campaign said he was on his way to a full recovery. (Fetterman would defeat Dr. Mehmet Oz in November to win the Senate seat.)
Birthdays
27 - Tanyel Revan (reality star)
32 - Mollee Gray (dancer)
33 - Stella Maxwell (model)
34 - Jasmin Brown (comedian)
36 - Andy Murray (tennis player)
39 - Nick Perri (musician)
41 - Alexandra Breckenridge (actress)
42 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler (actress)
45 - David Krumholtz (actor)
45 - Amy Chow (gymnast)
48 - Ray Lewis (football player)
49 - Russell Hornsby (actor)
51 - David Charvet (actor)
53 - Brad Rowe (actor)
54 - Emmitt Smith (football player)
56 - Madhuri Dixit (actress)
60 - Brenda Bakke (actress)
62 - Giselle Fernandez (TV personality)
68 - Lee Horsley (actor)
70 - George Brett (baseball player)
81 - Lainie Kazan (actress/singer)
85 - Lenny Welch (singer)
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Today in Sports History - May 15
1862 - Brooklyn's Union Grounds opened. It was the first enclosed baseball park.
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.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush took Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to a Baltimore Orioles vs. Oakland Athletics game.
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), opens as the first Major League Soccer stadium constructed in the United States.
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.
2018 - Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano was suspended for 80 games for violating baseball's drug agreement, becoming one of the most prominent players disciplined under the sport's anti-doping rules.
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by 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 in Philadelphia.
1928 - The Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut in the silent animated short "Plane Crazy."
1930 - On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland, California and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
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, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon.
1967 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that juveniles accused of crimes were entitled to the same due process rights afforded to adults.
1970 - Just after midnight, Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two Black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed as police opened fire during student protests.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for the presidency in Laurel, Maryland, by Arthur H. Bremer. (Bremer was later sentenced to 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.
2000 - In 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.
2007 - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who built the Christian right into a political force, died in Lynchburg, Virginia at age 73.
2009 - General Motors told about 1,100 dealerships that their franchises would be terminated.
2013 - Under mounting pressure, President Barack Obama released a trove of documents related to the Benghazi attack and forced out the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following revelations the agency had targeted conservative political groups.
2015 - A jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and left more than 250 wounded.
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.
2022 - Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the leading Democrat in the state's high-profile Senate contest, suffered a stroke but his campaign said he was on his way to a full recovery. (Fetterman would defeat Dr. Mehmet Oz in November to win the Senate seat.)
Birthdays
27 - Tanyel Revan (reality star)
32 - Mollee Gray (dancer)
33 - Stella Maxwell (model)
34 - Jasmin Brown (comedian)
36 - Andy Murray (tennis player)
39 - Nick Perri (musician)
41 - Alexandra Breckenridge (actress)
42 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler (actress)
45 - David Krumholtz (actor)
45 - Amy Chow (gymnast)
48 - Ray Lewis (football player)
49 - Russell Hornsby (actor)
51 - David Charvet (actor)
53 - Brad Rowe (actor)
54 - Emmitt Smith (football player)
56 - Madhuri Dixit (actress)
60 - Brenda Bakke (actress)
62 - Giselle Fernandez (TV personality)
68 - Lee Horsley (actor)
70 - George Brett (baseball player)
81 - Lainie Kazan (actress/singer)
85 - Lenny Welch (singer)
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Today in Sports History - May 15
1862 - Brooklyn's Union Grounds opened. It was the first enclosed baseball park.
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.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush took Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to a Baltimore Orioles vs. Oakland Athletics game.
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), opens as the first Major League Soccer stadium constructed in the United States.
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.
2018 - Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano was suspended for 80 games for violating baseball's drug agreement, becoming one of the most prominent players disciplined under the sport's anti-doping rules.
