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