May 15: Day of the Week
May 15, 2023 was the 135th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 230 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.
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Here’s the May calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
May 15 Historical Event(s)
- 1252Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
- 1718James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world’s first machine gun.
- 1836Francis Baily observes “Baily’s beads” during an annular eclipse.
- 1862President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
- 1904The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan’s battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and “Yashima”.
- 1911In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
- 1948Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
- 1951The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
- 1974Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren.
- 1997The United States government acknowledges the existence of the “Secret War” in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other “Secret War” veterans.
Who were born on May 15?
- 1856Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (d. 1917)
- 1859Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
- 1890Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
- 1948Kathleen Sebelius, American politician and Obama Administration figure
- 1967Laura Hillenbrand, American author
- 1975Peter Iwers, Swedish Musician
- 1978Amy Chow, American gymnast
- 1978Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
- 1978Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer
- 1979Chris Masoe, New Zealander rugby player
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