May 15

This day in history:

• 2013 – An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves more than 389 people dead over three days.
• 1911 – 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.
• 1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
• 1916 – A seventeen-year-old farmworker, Jesse Washington, is infamously lynched in Waco, Texas, USA, after being convicted of rape and murder.

Births:

• 1946 – Thadeus Nguyễn Văn Lý, Vietnamese priest and activist
• 1974 – Matthew Sadler, English chess player and author
• 1979 – Chris Masoe, New Zealand rugby player

Deaths:

• 1175 – Mleh, prince of Armenia
• 1699 – Sir Edward Petre, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1631)
• 1989 – Johnny Green, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)

Holidays:

• Peace Officers Memorial Day (United States)
• Constituent Assembly Day (Lithuania)
• Nakba Day (Palestinian communities)

Random Article of the day:

F. Hugh Vallancey

Francis Hugh Vallancey (1879 – 6 September 1950) was a schoolmaster, philatelist, philatelic author and editor, and dealer in philatelic literature. His business was destroyed during the London Blitz of 1941, but he rebuilt it after the war before ill health forced his retirement.

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