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15 May, 2004
London football team, Arsenal, complete a whole English Premiership season, 38 games, unbeaten.
15 May, 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.
15 May, 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.
15 May, 1991
Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
15 May, 1990
Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time
15 May, 1988
Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
15 May, 1987
Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform, which failed to reach orbit
15 May, 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.
15 May, 1970
President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals. The Beatles' last LP, Let It Be, is released in the United States.
15 May, 1957
Britain drops its first H-bomb - After just two years of development, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb over Christmas Island, as the arms race begins to escalate.
15 May, 1955
Austrian Independence Treaty signed
15 May, 1948
Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack Israel.
15 May, 1940
McDonald's is founded. After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Nazi Germany, marking the beginning of 5 years of occupation. Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in the United States.
15 May, 1932
The May 15 Incident. In an attempted coup the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed
15 May, 1930
Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess, on a flight from Oakland, California to Chicago.
15 May, 1905
Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 kmē), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
15 May, 1902
In a field outside Grass Valley, California, Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered airplane (a steam-powered glider).
15 May, 1811
Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
15 May, 1718
James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
15 May, 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).
15 May, 1567
Mary Queen of Scots weds James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.

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