Thursday May 15, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

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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.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, month, and days ago
  • month since then
  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
Woman’s suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
In 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.
Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam’s ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command.
President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state’s own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.

Who were born on ?

Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969)
Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (d. 1992)
Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
John Lanchbery, British composer (d. 2003)
Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
Diane Nash, American Civil Rights Movement figure
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011)
Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer

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