15 Mey

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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.

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)