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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

This will be 135th day of the year and 230 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 6 Sivan 5773
Chinese calendar — the 6th day of the 4th month of 4711 (Kui Si)
Islamic calendar — (note)

May 15 Birthdays

Pierre Curie
Pronunciation: [kürE´]1859–1906, French Scientist.

Claudio Monteverdi
composer (1567)

Lyman Frank Baum
author (1856)

Katherine Anne Porter
author, (1890)

Richard Joseph Daley
political leader (1902)

James Mason
actor (1909)

Paul A. Samuelson
economist, (1915)

Richard Avedon
photographer, (1923)

Jasper Johns
artist (1930)

Madeleine Albright
government official, (1937)

May 2013

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5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

May 15 in History

1862

The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.

1911

The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1918

The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.

1930

On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.

1940

Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.

1972

Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.

1988

The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.