15 Mey

The 15t o Mey is the 135t day o the year (136t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 230 days ti come.

 Events 
 392 - Assassination o Roman Emperor Valentinian II.
 1567 - Mary, Queen o Scots marries James Hepburn, 4t Yerl o Boddle.
 1730 - Robert Walpole effectively becomes the first Breetish Prime Meenister.
 1811 - Paraguay declares unthirldom frae Spain.
 1858 - Openin  o the Ryal Opera Hoose in Covent Garden, Lunnon.
 1860 - Battle o Calatafimi in Sicily: Giuseppe Garibaldi's Reid Shirts defeat the airmy o the Kinrick o Naples.
 1910 - Hamburg-based fitbaa club FC St. Pauli is foondit.
 1935 - The Moscow Metro opens tae the public.
 1940 - The first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, Californie.
 1955 - Austrick regains unthirldom.
 1955 - Makalu, in the Himalayas, is climbed for the first time, bi a French team.
 1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
 1960 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
 1963 - The Mercury-Atlas 9 space mission launches, at the end o NASA's Mercury programme.
 1972 - Okinawa is returned tae Japan bi the Unitit States.
 1993 - Niamh Kavanagh achieves the seicont o the Republic o Ireland's three consecutive victories in the Eurovision Sang Contest.
 1997 - The Unitit States acknowledges a Secret War in Laos.
 2004 - Sooth Africae gets the richt tae host the 2010 FIFA Warld Cup.
 2004 - Eurovision Sang Contest 2004 endit in Istanbul, Turkey. Ruslana wins for Ukraine wi her sang "Wild Dances".
 2012 - François Hollande becomes Preses o Fraunce.

 Births 
 1397 - Sejong the Great, Korean keeng (d. 1450)
 1567 - Claudio Monteverdi, Italian componer (d. 1643)
 1773 - Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrick statesman (d. 1859)
 1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scots-American astronomer (d. 1911)
 1859 - Pierre Curie, French pheesicist (d. 1906)
 1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrick writer (d. 1931)
 1885 - Jimmy Brownlie, Scots fitbawer (d. 1973)
 1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Roushie writer an playwricht (d. 1940)
 1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss writer (d. 1991)
 1915 - Paul Samuelson, American economist (d. 2009)
 1937 - Madeleine Albright, Czech-born American diplomat an politeecian
 1946 - Aly Bain, Shetland fiddler
 1948 - Brian Eno, Inglis muisicker
 1951 - Frank Wilczek, American theoretical pheesicist an mathemateecian
 1955 - Claudia Roth, German politeecian
 1964 - Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Prime meenister o Denmark
 1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch fitbawer
 1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch fitbawer
 1972 - Danny Alexander, Scots politeecian
 1981 - Patrice Evra, French fitbawer
 1981 - Zara Phillips, Inglis royal an equestrian
 1987 - Andy Murray, Scots tennis player
 1987 - Leonardo Mayer, Argentine tennis player
 1996 - Birdy, Inglis sangster

 Daiths 
 392 - Valentinian II, Roman Emperor (b. 371)
 1157 - Yuri Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince o Kiev an foonder o the ceety o Moscow (b. 1099)
 1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet an writer (b. 1830)
 1932 - Inukai Tsuyoshi, Prime meenister o Japan (b. 1855)
 1967 - Edward Hopper, American penter (b. 1882)
 1978 - Robert Menzies, Prime Meenister o Australie (b. 1894)
 1984 - Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas, Scots politeecian (b. 1913)
 2001 - Bobby Murdoch, Scots fitbawer (b. 1944)
 2008 - Tommy Burns, Scots fitbawer an coach (b. 1956)
 2008 - Willis Lamb, American pheesicist (b. 1913)
 2012 - Carlos Fuentes, Panamanian-Mexican writer (b. 1928)
 2014 - Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politeecian (b. 1940)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day an Mither's Day (Paraguay)
 Internaitional Day o Faimilies
 Airmy Day (Slovenie)
 Republic Day (Lithuanie)
 Teacher's Day (Colombie, Mexico, Sooth Korea)
 Internaitional Conscientious Objectors' Day

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