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Events on May 15th

May 15th 2006 : Christina Aguilera: Aguilera posed nude for a Marylin Monroe-inspired photoshoot
May 15th 1995 : Daisy Fuentes: Hosted the Miss Universe 2005 pageant
May 15th 1970 : First female generals in the U.S. Army
President Nixon appointed two women as the first ever female Brigadier (one-star) Generals in the United States Army. The two women were Anna Mae hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
May 15th 1928 : Mickey and Minnie Mouse first appear
In an animated short film called "Plane Crazy", the first appearances of the soon to be famous Mickey and Minnie Mouse appear.
May 15th 1905 : Las Vegas founded
Las Vegas, Nevada, gambling capital of the world, is founded when 110 acres, which would later form the downtown area, are auctioned off. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
May 15th 1718 : First machine gun
A London lawyer, James Puckle, patents the worlds first machine gun. The Puckle gun was capable of shooting 9 rounds before being reloaded.
May 15th 1252 : Torture approved by the Pope
Pope Innocent IV issued a papal bill that authorized the Medieval Inquisition to torture heretics. Because of this, torture soon spreads throughout Catholic Europe.

UK Number 1 Singles on May 15th

May 15th 2006 "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
May 15th 2005 "Lonely" by Akon
May 15th 2004 "F*** It (I Don't Want You Back)" by Eamon
May 15th 2003 "Ignition (remix)" by R. Kelly
May 15th 2002 "If Tomorrow Never Comes" by Ronan Keating
May 15th 2001 "It's Raining Men" by Geri Halliwell
May 15th 2000 "Don't Call Me Baby" by Madison Avenue
May 15th 1999 "I Want It That Way" by The Backstreet Boys
May 15th 1998 "Turn Back Time" by Aqua
May 15th 1997 "You're Not Alone" by Olive
May 15th 1996 "Fastlove" by George Michael
May 15th 1995 "Unchained Melody / White cliffs of Dover" by Robson & Jerome
May 15th 1994 "Come On You Reds" by Manchester United Football Squad
May 15th 1993 "Five Live" by George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield
May 15th 1992 "Please Don't Go" by K.W.S.
May 15th 1991 "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" by Cher
May 15th 1990 "Killer" by Adamski
May 15th 1989 "Ferry 'Cross The Mersey" by The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden, Stock Aitken Waterman
May 15th 1988 "With a Little Help from My Friends / Billy Bragg with Cara Tivey - She's Leaving Home" by Wet Wet Wet
May 15th 1987 "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship
May 15th 1986 "The Chicken Song" by Spitting Image
May 15th 1985 "19" by Paul Hardcastle
May 15th 1984 "The Reflex" by Duran Duran
May 15th 1983 "True" by Spandau Ballet
May 15th 1982 "A Little Peace" by Nicole
May 15th 1981 "Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants
May 15th 1980 "What's Another Year?" by Johnny Logan
May 15th 1979 "Bright Eyes" by Art Garfunkel
May 15th 1978 "Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M
May 15th 1977 "Free" by Deniece Williams
May 15th 1976 "Fernando" by ABBA
May 15th 1975 "Oh Boy" by Mud
May 15th 1974 "Sugar Baby Love" by The Rubettes
May 15th 1973 "See My Baby Jive" by Wizzard
May 15th 1972 "Amazing Grace" by The Pipes & Drums & Military Band of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
May 15th 1971 "Knock Three Times" by Dawn
May 15th 1970 "Back Home" by England World Cup Squad
May 15th 1969 "Get Back" by The Beatles with Billy Preston
May 15th 1968 "What A Wonderful World/Cabaret" by Louis Armstrong
May 15th 1967 "Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw
May 15th 1966 "Pretty Flamingo" by Manfred Mann
May 15th 1965 "King Of The Road" by Roger Miller
May 15th 1964 "Don't Throw Your Love Away" by The Searchers
May 15th 1963 "From Me To You" by The Beatles
May 15th 1962 "Wonderful Land" by The Shadows
May 15th 1961 "Blue Moon" by The Marcels
May 15th 1960 "Cathy's Clown" by Everly Brothers
May 15th 1959 "A Fool Such As I/I Need Your Love" by Elvis Presley
May 15th 1958 "Whole Lotta Woman" by Marvin Rainwater
May 15th 1957 "Cumberland Gap" by Lonnie Donegan
May 15th 1956 "No Other Love" by Ronnie Hilton
May 15th 1955 "Stranger In Paradise" by Tony Bennett
May 15th 1954 "Secret Love" by Doris Day
May 15th 1953 "I Believe" by Frankie Laine

USA Number 1 Singles on May 15th

May 15th 2006 "SOS" by Rihanna
May 15th 2005 "Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Stefani
May 15th 2004 "Yeah!" by Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris
May 15th 2003 "Get Busy" by Sean Paul
May 15th 2002 "Foolish" by Ashanti
May 15th 2001 "All for You" by Janet
May 15th 2000 "Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B
May 15th 1999 "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin
May 15th 1998 "Too Close" by Next
May 15th 1997 "Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G.
May 15th 1996 "Always Be My Baby" by Mariah Carey
May 15th 1995 "This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan
May 15th 1994 "The Sign" by Ace of Base
May 15th 1993 "That's the Way Love Goes" by Janet Jackson
May 15th 1992 "Jump" by Kris Kross
May 15th 1991 "Joyride" by Roxette
May 15th 1990 "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead O'Connor
May 15th 1989 "I'll Be There for You" by Bon Jovi
May 15th 1988 "Anything For You" by Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
May 15th 1987 "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" by Cutting Crew
May 15th 1986 "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys
May 15th 1985 "Crazy for You" by Madonna
May 15th 1984 "Hello" by Lionel Richie
May 15th 1983 "Beat It" by Michael Jackson
May 15th 1982 "Ebony and Ivory" by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
May 15th 1981 "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" by Sheena Easton
May 15th 1980 "Call Me" by Blondie
May 15th 1979 "Reunited" by Peaches & Herb
May 15th 1978 "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman
May 15th 1977 "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer
May 15th 1976 "Boogie Fever" by The Sylvers
May 15th 1975 "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" by Tony Orlando and Dawn
May 15th 1974 "The Loco-Motion" by Grand Funk
May 15th 1973 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree" by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
May 15th 1972 "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack
May 15th 1971 "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night
May 15th 1970 "American Woman / No Sugar Tonight" by The Guess Who
May 15th 1969 "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" by The Fifth Dimension
May 15th 1968 "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro
May 15th 1967 "The Happening" by The Supremes
May 15th 1966 "Monday, Monday" by The Mamas & the Papas
May 15th 1965 "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" by Herman's Hermits
May 15th 1964 "Hello, Dolly!" by Louis Armstrong
May 15th 1963 "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March
May 15th 1962 "Soldier Boy" by The Shirelles
May 15th 1961 "Runaway" by Del Shannon
May 15th 1960 "Stuck on You" by Elvis Presley
May 15th 1959 "The Happy Organ" by Dave "Baby" Cortez
May 15th 1958 "All I Have to Do Is Dream/Claudette" by Everly Brothers
May 15th 1957 "All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley
May 15th 1956 "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis Presley
May 15th 1955 "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Pérez Prado
May 15th 1954 "Wanted" by Perry Como
May 15th 1953 "The Doggie in the Window" by Patti Page
May 15th 1952 "Wheel of Fortune" by Kay Starr
May 15th 1951 "How High the Moon" by Les Paul and Mary Ford
May 15th 1950 "The Third Man Theme" by Anton Karas
May 15th 1949 "Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)" by Vaughn Monroe
May 15th 1948 "Nature Boy" by King Cole
May 15th 1947 "Heartaches" by Ted Weems
May 15th 1946 "Prisoner of Love" by Perry Como
May 15th 1945 "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" by Les Brown
May 15th 1944 "I Love You" by Bing Crosby
May 15th 1943 "I've Heard That Song Before" by Harry James
May 15th 1942 "Tangerine" by Jimmy Dorsey
May 15th 1941 "Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)" by Jimmy Dorsey

Birthdays on May 15th

May 15th 1978 Amy Chow
May 15th 1978 Krissy Taylor
May 15th 1978 David Krumholtz
May 15th 1975 Ray Lewis
May 15th 1974 Ahmet Rodan Zappa
May 15th 1972 David Charvet
May 15th 1970 Rod Smith
May 15th 1970 Desmond Howard
May 15th 1970 Ronald de Boer
May 15th 1970 Prince Be
May 15th 1969 Emmitt Smith
May 15th 1968 Todd Porter
May 15th 1967 John Smoltz
May 15th 1967 Omar Vizquel
May 15th 1965 Jeff Rochlin
May 15th 1959 Andrew Eldritch
May 15th 1955 Lee Horsley
May 15th 1953 Mike Oldfield
May 15th 1953 George Brett
May 15th 1952 Rick Waits
May 15th 1951 Jonathan Richman
May 15th 1951 Dennis Frederiksen
May 15th 1951 Chazz Palminteri
May 15th 1948 Brian Eno
May 15th 1944 Graham Goble
May 15th 1943 David Cronenberg
May 15th 1941 K T Oslin
May 15th 1940 Lainie Kazan
May 15th 1940 Paul Rudd
May 15th 1938 Lenny Welch
May 15th 1937 Madeleine Albright
May 15th 1937 Trini Lopez
May 15th 1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti
May 15th 1936 Paul Zindel
May 15th 1932 John Glen
May 15th 1930 Jasper Johns
May 15th 1926 Anthony Shaffer
May 15th 1925 Jos Jacobs
May 15th 1923 Richard Avedon
May 15th 1918 Eddy Arnold
May 15th 1918 Joseph Wiseman
May 15th 1916 Bill Williams
May 15th 1912 Arthur Victor Berger
May 15th 1911 Max Frisch
May 15th 1910 Constance Cummings
May 15th 1909 James Mason
May 15th 1905 Joseph Cotten
May 15th 1904 Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein
May 15th 1904 Clifton Fadiman
May 15th 1902 Richard J Daley
May 15th 1898 Arlette-Leonie Arletty
May 15th 1895 Charles Lamont
May 15th 1893 Michel Gusikoff
May 15th 1891 David Vogel
May 15th 1890 Katherine Anne Porter
May 15th 1862 Arthur Schnitzler
May 15th 1860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
May 15th 1859 Pierre Curie
May 15th 1856 Lyman Frank Baum
May 15th 1856 L Frank Baum
May 15th 1830 Martinus W van der Aa
May 15th 1808 Michael William Balfe
May 15th 1791 Baron Floris A van Hall
May 15th 1773 Clemens L Metternich
May 15th 1265 Dante Alighieri

Deaths on May 15th

May 15th 2003 June Carter Cash
May 15th 2003 Robert Stack
May 15th 1994 Royal Dano
May 15th 1994 Gilbert Roland
May 15th 1994 Frederik baron van Pallandt
May 15th 1994 Ronnie Potsdammer
May 15th 1994 [Henry] John Baker
May 15th 1992 Bruce Hopkins
May 15th 1992 Robert Morris Page
May 15th 1991 Freddie Paris
May 15th 1991 Reno Brown
May 15th 1989 John Waldo Green
May 15th 1988 Greta Nissen
May 15th 1988 Andrew Duggan
May 15th 1987 Wynne Gibson
May 15th 1987 John Baur
May 15th 1986 Theodore H. White
May 15th 1986 Theodore H White
May 15th 1985 Jackie Curtis
May 15th 1976 Samuel Eliot Morison
May 15th 1973 Willem H Rassers
May 15th 1972 Nigel Green
May 15th 1967 Edward Hopper
May 15th 1967 Jaromir Fiala
May 15th 1965 Adrian Schoevers
May 15th 1964 Cornelis H Edelman
May 15th 1959 Berend van den Amstel
May 15th 1958 Michael G the Boer
May 15th 1952 Italo Montemezzi
May 15th 1952 Albert Basserman
May 15th 1945 Major Courtney
May 15th 1940 Joseph Limburg
May 15th 1940 Willem A Bonger
May 15th 1940 Menno ter Braak
May 15th 1933 Ernest Torrence
May 15th 1932 Ki Inukai
May 15th 1926 Mohammed VI Vahideddin
May 15th 1924 Paul d'Estornelles de Constant
May 15th 1899 Francisque Sarcey
May 15th 1895 Joseph Whitaker
May 15th 1892 Arthur Hodister
May 15th 1889 Alfred Potocki
May 15th 1886 Emily Dickinson
May 15th 1873 Alexander J Cuza
May 15th 1872 Thomas Hastings
May 15th 1845 Samuel I Wiselius
May 15th 1833 Edmund Kean
May 15th 1832 Carl Friedrich Zelter
May 15th 1823 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky
May 15th 1822 Christian Ludwig Dieter
May 15th 1821 John Wall Calcott
May 15th 1785 Karel Blazej Kopriva
May 15th 1761 Jacob Mossel
May 15th 1746 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri
May 15th 1685 Henri Otto
May 15th 1622 Peter Plancius
May 15th 1621 Henrick de Keyser
May 15th 1591 Dimitri Ivanovitch
May 15th 1482 Paolo Toscanelli
May 15th 1470 Charles VIII
May 15th 884 Marinus I
May 15th 392 Valentinianus II

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