May 15......

May 15 is the 135th (136th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 230 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Freedom "I call that mind free, which sets no bounds to its love, which is not imprisoned in itself or in a sect, which recognizes in all human beings the image of God." — William Ellery Channing

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Hate and Intolerance "[Tolerance is a] kind of watchword of those who reject the concept of right and wrong....It's a kind of a desensitization to evil of all varieties. Everything has become acceptable to those who are tolerant." — James Dobson, founder of Focus on Family, the largest international right-wing religious organization in America

Thought for the day: "You can judge a man by how he keeps his golf score."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 756 - Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain

● 884 - Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1004 - Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy

● 1213 - English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury

● 1248 - Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Köln cathedral

● 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.

● 1455 - A crusade against the Turks and for the capture of Constantinople was proclaimed by Pope Calixtus III.

● 1492 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse

● 1514 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

● 1525 - Thomas Muenzer executed for leading a revolt of 40,000 German peasants and workers.

● 1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.

● 1536 - Anna Boleyn & Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest

● 1572 - Louis van Nassau & Huguenots occupy Valenciennes

● 1602 - Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod.

● 1610 - Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king

● 1614 - An aristocratic uprising in France ended with the treaty of St.Menehould.

● 1618 - Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

● 1625 - 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vöcklamarkt Upper-Austria

● 1648 - Treaty of Münster: Spain & Netherlands ratified

● 1665 - Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme

● 1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts

● 1686 - Rev. Robert Ratcliffe arrived in Boston from England, with orders from King Charles II to establish the Anglican Church in Massachusetts.

● 1702 - War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France

● 1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.

● 1730 - Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was chief minister)

● 1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France.

● 1768 - Under the Treaty of Versailles, France purchased Corsica from Genoa.

● 1776 - American Revolution: Virginia convention instructs its delegates to propose a declaration of independence from Great Britain.

● 1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposed the self-denying ordinance.

● 1795 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France enters Milan in triumph.

● 1796 - France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris

● 1796 - French troops occupy Milan

● 1800 - King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt

● 1800 - Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles

● 1811 - Paraguay declares independence from Spain.

● 1816 - Birth of Sylvanus Dryden Phelps, U.S. Baptist clergyman and poet. His several writings included the hymn, "Savior, Thy Dying Love."

● 1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

● 1817 - Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia

● 1829 - According to LDS teaching, John the Baptist confers the Aaronic Priesthood onto Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery.

● 1836 - Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse.

● 1849 - Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.

● 1851 - Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand.

● 1856 - 2nd San Fransisco Vigilance Committee organized

● 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture (later renamed USDA).

● 1862 - Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Fort Darling) VA

● 1862 - Battle of Princeton WV

● 1862 - Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London

● 1862 - General Benjamin F Butler issues "Woman's Order" - women of New Orleans to be treated as whores as a result of their treatment of Union soldiers

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.

● 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.

● 1864 - Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)

● 1868 - Dutch Government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls

● 1869 - Woman's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.

● 1872 - Julia Ward Howe declares the first Mother's Day as an anti-war holiday.

● 1882 - May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania

● 1883 - Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany

● 1885 - Canadian Méti insurgent Louis Riel captured, Saskatchewan

● 1886 - Poet Emily Dickinson died at age 55.

● 1889 - At the close of a two-day denominational conference in Cleveland, Ohio, the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church was organized. It became the foundation of the current United Methodist Youth (UMY) fellowship programs.

● 1891 - British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) is established

● 1891 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Rerum novarum

● 1896 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas

● 1897 - The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in Greco-Turkish War

● 1902 - Richard Daley, the powerful mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976 was born.

● 1902 - In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).

● 1902 - Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola

● 1905 - Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville

● 1905 - Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.

● 1910 - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Lake Elsinore Fault.

● 1911 - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.

● 1911 - The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.

● 1911 - British house of commons accept Parliament Bill

● 1914 - Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

● 1916 - U.S. Marines landed in Santo Domingo to quell civil disorder.

● 1916 - Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front

● 1918 - Greek troops lands at Smyrna

● 1918 - Finnish Civil War ends.

● 1918 - The US Post Office Department (later renamed the USPS) begins the first regular airmail service in the world (between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC).

● 1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike began. By 11:00, virtually the entire working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.

● 1919 - Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion killed or wounded 350 Turks by the Greek army. The responsible were punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. Hasan Tahsin fired the first gun of the Turkish War of Independence.

● 1920 - Council of Lithuania adjourned as newly elected Constituent Assembly of Lithuania met for the first time in Kaunas

● 1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.

● 1926 - British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike

● 1929 - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland OH)

● 1930 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago.

● 1931 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno

● 1932 - The May 15 Incident. In an attempted coup the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.

● 1933 - 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate

● 1934 - The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.

● 1934 - Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.

● 1935 - National Labor Relations Act passed, recognizing workers' right to organize and bargain collectively.

● 1936 - Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from South Africa in record 4 days 16 hours

● 1937 - Italian anarchist Francesco Barbieri arrested in his Barcelona hospital bed by police under the command of Spanish communists. His body is found full of bullet holes the next day, along with that of Camillo Berneri.

● 1938 - Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium

● 1940 - 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300

● 1940 - German armour division moves into Northern France

● 1940 - German troops occupy Amsterdam, General Winkelman surrenders

● 1940 - Winston Churchill flies to Paris France

● 1940 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States.

● 1940 - World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Nazi Germany, marking the beginning of 5 years of occupation.

● 1941 - 1st British turbojet flies

● 1941 - British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya

● 1941 - Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music

● 1942 - ● 1942 - Gasoline rationing began in the U.S. The limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles. (17 Eastern States)

● 1942 - Nazi occupiers in Netherlands arrests 2,000 Dutch officers

● 1942 - World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.

● 1943 - German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'I read the Psalms every day, as I have done for years; I know them and love them more than any other book.'

● 1943 - Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).

● 1943 - Halifax bombers sinks U-463

● 1943 - Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction

● 1944 - Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan

● 1944 - Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne

● 1944 - Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz begins.

● 1945 - Last skirmish of the Second World War in Europe fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.

● 1948 - 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends

● 1948 - Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel.

● 1951 - The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.

● 1953 - Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam

● 1954 - Queen returns after lengthy voyage; The Royal Family returns safely from their six-month tour of the Commonwealth to a rapturous welcome in London.

● 1955 - Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins

● 1955 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1955 - Vienna Treaty: Britain, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence

● 1955 - First ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.

● 1957 - Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.

● 1958 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.

● 1960 - Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed

● 1960 - Taxes took 25% of earnings in US

● 1961 - 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea

● 1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra

● 1962 - US marines arrive in Laos

● 1963 - Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched

● 1964 - U.S. begins bombing Laos.

● 1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1965 - National teach-in to oppose the war in Vietnam held in Washington, D.C.

● 1966 - American Friends Service Committee, SANE, and Women March for Peace sponsor a 10,000 person anti-war picket at White House.

● 1966 - Buddhist altars placed in streets to stop troops arresting dissidents, South Vietnam.

● 1966 - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die

● 1968 - A tornado strikes Jonesboro AR at 10 PM, killing 36

● 1968 - German students clash with police over imposition of new "emergency laws" curtailing public demonstrations.

● 1969 - Governor Ronald Reagan sends in National Guard to reclaim People's Park from 6,000 protesters in Berkeley, California. Police gunfire kills a bystander, James Rector, blinds another, injures dozens.

● 1969 - Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees.

● 1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

● 1970 - South-Africa excluded from Olympic play

● 1970 - In response to invasion of Cambodia and killings at Kent State and Jackson State, several million U.S. students hold campus strikes.

● 1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.

● 1970 - Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.

● 1971 - Native American Rights Fund files suit on behalf of Hopi to prevent strip mining on sacred Black Mesa, Arizona. Dispute over access to Black Mesa deposits would eventually lead to Big Mountain forced relocation of thousands of Navajo.

● 1972 - The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

● 1972 - In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while Wallace is campaigning to be American President.

● 1972 - Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims (Minia Egypt)

● 1974 - Mail truck terrorists take school in Maälot, 30 killed

● 1974 - Teenagers die in Israeli school attack; Sixteen teenagers die along with three Palestinians holding them hostage at an Israeli school near the Lebanese border.

● 1974 - Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president

● 1978 - U.S. Congress reinstates relations with 1,500 members of Modoc, Wyandot, Peoria and Ottowa tribes in Oklahoma.

● 1978 - Lagumot Harris, having only been elected President less than a month before, is replaced as the leader of the republic of Nauru. He is succeeded by Hammer DeRoburt.

● 1980 - The first transcontinental balloon crossing of the United States took place.

● 1981 - Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6

● 1982 - Forty thousand demonstrate against military electronics fair, Hanover, West Germany.

● 1982 - Four hundred fifty begin three-day occupation of uranium mine, Honeymoon, South Australia.

● 1983 - Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion

● 1986 - Argentine ex-President Galtieri sentenced to 12 years

● 1987 - Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform, which failed to reach orbit.

● 1988 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

● 1989 - Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years

● 1991 - Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panamá"

● 1991 - Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns

● 1991 - Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.

● 1993 - French police rescue child hostages; A hostage crisis at a nursery school in Paris ends when commandos storm the school - and the children's teacher is hailed a hero.

● 1995 - Although all other nuclear powers are observing a testing moratorium, China tests nuclear device. France and U.S. both announce plans to resume tests shortly afterwards.

● 1996 - Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole announced he was leaving the Senate after 27 years to challenge President Bill Clinton full time.

● 1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.

● 1999 - The Russian parliament was unable a attain enough votes to impeach President Boris Yeltsin.

● 2001 - UK supermarkets slash price of drugs; British consumers reap the benefits of cheaper over-the-counter medicine after a court ruling puts an end to the drug industry's price-fixing policy.

● 2001 - A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop.

● 2003 - Texas Democrats boarded two buses and returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma that temporarily succeeded in killing a redistricting plan they opposed.

● 2003 - Country musician June Carter Cash died at age 73.

● 2004 - The largest known prime number at the time of its discovery, 224036583 − 1, is found by Josh Findley and the GIMPS collaborative effort.

● 2006 - A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq's president as a judge formally charged him with crimes against humanity.

● 2006 - The Pentagon disclosed the names of everyone detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since it opened four years earlier.

● 2006 - The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states and said it would restore normal diplomatic relations.

BIRTHS

● 1567 - (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)

● 1720 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)

● 1773 - Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d. 1859)

● 1786 - General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)

● 1808 - Michael Balfe, Irish singer and composer; wrote "The Bohemian Girl" (d. 1870)

● 1817 - Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)

● 1845 - Elie Metchnikoff, Russian zoologist and microbiologist; won Nobel Prize in 1908 (d. 1916)

● 1848 - Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)

● 1856 - L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919)

● 1857 - Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)

● 1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)

● 1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)

● 1887 - Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, literary critic and translator (d. 1959)

● 1890 - Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)

● 1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)

● 1891 - Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (d. 1971)

● 1892 - Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)

● 1895 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)

● 1898 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)

● 1899 - William Hume-Rothery, English founder of scientific metallurgy (d. 1968)

● 1899 - Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)

● 1902 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)

● 1904 - Clifton Fadiman, American editor, anthologist and writer (d. 1999)

● 1905 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)

● 1907 - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian Freedom Fighter

● 1909 - James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)

● 1910 - Constance Cummings, British actress (d. 2005)

● 1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)

● 1911 - Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)

● 1914 - Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa (d. 1986)

● 1914 - Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender

● 1915 - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (d. 2006)

● 1915 - Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1915 - Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)

● 1916 - Catherine East, American feminist (d. 1996)

● 1918 - Eddy Arnold, American singer

● 1918 - Joseph Wiseman, Actor

● 1922 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun

● 1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)

● 1923 - John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)

● 1923 - Johnny Walker, Indian actor

● 1924 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (d. 1971)

● 1926 - Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)

● 1926 - Peter Shaffer, English playwright

● 1930 - Jasper Johns, American painter

● 1931 - Ken Venturi, American golfer

● 1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress

● 1936 - Wavy Gravy, Counterculture icon

● 1936 - Hugh Romney, American clown and activist

● 1936 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist

● 1936 - Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)

● 1937 - Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State

● 1937 - Trini López, American musician

● 1938 - Lenny Welch, Singer

● 1940 - Paul Rudd, Actor, director

● 1940 - Roger Ailes, Fox News Chairman and CEO

● 1940 - Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding")

● 1940 - Don Nelson, NBA coach

● 1941 - K.T. Oslin, American musician

● 1942 - K.T. Oslin, Country singer

● 1944 - Ulrich Beck, German sociologist

● 1945 - Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown

● 1945 - Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer

● 1948 - Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas

● 1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer

● 1950 - Nicholas Hammond, American actor

● 1951 - Chazz Palminteri, American actor, writer and director

● 1951 - Jonathan Richman, American musician

● 1951 - Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1953 - George Brett, baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer ("Tubular Bells")

● 1954 - Robert P. Harrison, American thinker

● 1955 - Lee Horsley, Actor

● 1955 - Melinda Culea, American actress

● 1956 - Dan Patrick, American sportscaster

● 1958 - Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler

● 1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)

● 1959 - Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer

● 1961 - Giselle Fernandez, TV personality ("Dancing With the Stars")

● 1961 - Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)

● 1962 - Melle Mel, American musician

● 1965 - Raí, Brazilian footballer

● 1967 - John Smoltz, baseball player

● 1967 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress

● 1968 - Seth Putnam, American musician

● 1968 - Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician

● 1969 - Emmitt Smith, American football player

● 1970 - Prince Be, Singer-rapper (PM Dawn)

● 1970 - Brad Rowe, Actor

● 1970 - Desmond Howard, American football player

● 1970 - Rod Smith, American football player

● 1970 - Frank de Boer, Dutch football player

● 1970 - Ronald de Boer, Dutch football player

● 1971 - Phil Pfister, American strength athlete

● 1972 - David Charvet, French actor

● 1974 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby player

● 1974 - Ahmet Zappa, American musician

● 1974 - Vassilis Kikilias, Greek footballer

● 1975 - Ray Lewis, American football player

● 1976 - Torraye Braggs, American basketball player

● 1976 - Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer

● 1976 - Tyler Walker, baseball player

● 1976 - Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer

● 1976 - Ryan Leaf, former NFL quarterback

● 1978 - Amy Chow, American gymnast

● 1978 - Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress

● 1978 - David Krumholtz, American actor (NUMB3RS)

● 1978 - Edu, Brazilian footballer

● 1978 - Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995)

● 1980 - Josh Beckett, baseball player

● 1980 - Rocky Marquette, American actor

● 1981 - Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress ("The Sopranos")

● 1981 - Zara Phillips, British royal

● 1981 - Patrice Evra, French-Senegalese footballer

● 1982 - Veronica Campbell, Jamaican athlete

● 1982 - Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)

● 1982 - Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer

● 1982 - Alex Breckenridge, American actress

● 1982 - Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor

● 1983 - Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)

● 1986 - Matías Fernández,Chilean footballer

● 1987 - Andrew Murray, tennis player

● 1987 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipino actress and singer

● 1990 - Gerald Santos, Filipino actor and singer

DEATHS

● 1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)

● 1157 - Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince

● 1174 - Nur ad-Din, ruler of Syria (b. 1118)

● 1381 - Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron

● 1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)

● 1585 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)

● 1591 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (b. 1582)

● 1609 - Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)

● 1634 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)

● 1698 - Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)

● 1699 - Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)

● 1714 - Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar

● 1740 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)

● 1760 - Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)

● 1773 - Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)

● 1782 - Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)

● 1879 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)

● 1886 - Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)

● 1924 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)

● 1935 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)

● 1937 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)

● 1940 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)

● 1945 - Charles Williams, UK writer (b. 1886)

● 1948 - Father Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)

● 1954 - William March, American writer (b. 1893)

● 1956 - Austin Osman Spare, English magician (b. 1886)

● 1967 - Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)

● 1971 - Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)

● 1982 - Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)

● 1984 - Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor

● 1986 - Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915)

● 1986 - Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (b. 1958)

● 1989 - Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)

● 1991 - Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)

● 1993 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1933)

● 1994 - Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1904)

● 1995 - Eric Porter, British actor (b. 1928)

● 1996 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)

● 1998 - Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)

● 2003 - June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)

● 2003 - George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)

● 2003 - Rik Van Steenbergen, Belgian cyclist (b. 1924)

● 2005 - Les Bartley, lacrosse coach (b. 1954)

● 2005 - Alan B. Gold, Chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court (b. 1917)

● 2006 - Joyce Ballantyne Brand, artist (b. 1918)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Achillius
● St. Andrew
● St. Bertha
● St. Britwin
● St. Caesarea
● St. Caesarn
● St. Cassius
● St. Denise
● St. Dionysia
● St. Dymphna, patron of the insane
● St. Gerebrand
● St. Hallvard
● St. Hilary
● St. Isidore, the Farmer
● St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
● St. Nicholas the Mystic
● St. Peter
● St. Reticius
● St. Torquatus
● St. Waldalenus

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for May 2 (Civil Date: May 15)
● St. Athanasius the Great, Patriarch of Alexandria.
● St. Athanasius of Lubensk, Patriarch of Constantinople.
● Martyrs Hesperus, Zoe, and their sons Cyriacus and Theodulus, at Attalia.
● Translation of the Relics of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb (in holy baptism, Romanus and David).
● St. Boris-Michael, prince of Bulgaria.

● Greek Calendar:
● St. Jordan the Wonderworker.

● Roman Empire - Mercuralia in honor of Mercury held.

● Paraguay - Independence Day. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, 14 May.

● United States - Peace Officers Memorial Day.

● Slovenia - Day of Slovenian armed forces.

● Teacher's Day in Mexico (Día del Maestro) and South Korea (스승의 날).

● Nakba Day in Palestinian communities.

● Austria : Independence Day - (1955)

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● US : I am an American Day - ( Sunday )
● US : Armed Forces Day - ( Saturday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

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