Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 15
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This is a list of selected May 15 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.May 15: Independence Day in Paraguay (1811); Teachers' Day in Mexico and South Korea; Nakba Day in Palestinian communities
- 1602 – English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold became the first European to discover Cape Cod.
- 1836 – English astronomer Francis Baily first observed "Baily's beads", a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through (example pictured).
- 1932 – Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated in the May 15 incident, an attempted coup d'état by radical elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
- 1957 – The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple.
- 1990 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet was sold at auction in Christie's New York office for a total of US$82.5 million, at the time the world's most expensive painting.
