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A few events that happened on this day in history     [ 15 May ]

On This Day in History

15-May-1918 - Air Mail Begins
Postage Stamps     United States

The US Postal Service began Air Mail deliveries, becoming the third country to do so behind India and England.  Routes were between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington DC.

Births


Demetra Raven     15-May-1991
          in Santa Monica, California, USA
Jack Henry Robbins     15-May-1989
Jack Levinson     15-May-1988
Tyrone Savage     15-May-1985
Andi Eystad     15-May-1982
          in Los Angeles, California, USA
Tatsuya Fujiwara     15-May-1982
          in Chichibu, Japan
Alex Burton     15-May-1981
          in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Dustin Berkovitz     15-May-1980
          in Houston, Texas, USA
Leslie Usi     15-May-1980
          in Los Alamitos, California, USA
Scott Lunsford     15-May-1979
          in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Caroline Dhavernas     15-May-1978
          in Montréal, Québec, Canada
David Krumholtz     15-May-1978
          in New York, New York, USA
Eric Prescott     15-May-1978
          in Texas, USA
Chrissy May     15-May-1977
          in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cyrille Thouvenin     15-May-1976
          in France
Matt Mangum     15-May-1975
          in Augusta, Georgia, USA
Ahmet Zappa     15-May-1974
          in Los Angeles, California, USA
Shannon van der Drift     15-May-1973
          in Mt. Clemens, Michigan, USA
Sam Trammell     15-May-1971
          in Los Angeles, California, USA
Sonia Hell     15-May-1970
          in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
Michael Patrick Jann     15-May-1970
          in Albany, New York, USA
Randall Carlton     15-May-1969
          in Fort Olgethorpe, Georgia, USA
Emmitt Smith     15-May-1969
          in Pensacola, Florida, USA
Victor Varnado     15-May-1969
          in Gary, Indiana, USA
Robert Meyer Burnett     15-May-1967
          in Seattle, Washington, USA
Lisa France     15-May-1967
          in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
Ildikó Kovács     15-May-1967
          in Rimavská Sobota, Czechoslovakia
Greg Wise     15-May-1966
          in Newcastle, England, UK
Jeff Rochlin     15-May-1965
          in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Brenda Bakke     15-May-1963
          in Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA
Jamie Harris     15-May-1963
          in England, UK
Grant Heslov     15-May-1963
          in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Kristen Vigard     15-May-1963
          in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Ricci Luyties     15-May-1962
          in Pacific Palisades, California, USA
Giselle Fernandez     15-May-1961
          in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Larry Holden     15-May-1961
          in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Rob Bowman     15-May-1960
          in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
Norbert Növényi     15-May-1957
          in Budapest, Hungary
Dan Patrick     15-May-1956
          in Zanesville, Ohio, USA
Peter Salmon     15-May-1956
          in Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
Freeman Williams     15-May-1956
          in Los Angeles, California
Lee Horsley     15-May-1955
          in Muleshoe, Texas, USA
John Blyth Barrymore     15-May-1954
Cleavant Derricks     15-May-1953
          in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Clinton Derricks-Carroll     15-May-1953
          in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Chazz Palminteri     15-May-1952
          in New York, New York, USA
Phil Seymour     15-May-1952
          in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Nicholas Hammond     15-May-1950
          in Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Brian Eno     15-May-1948
          in Woodbridge, East Anglia, England, UK
Adrienne Larussa     15-May-1948
          in New York, New York, USA
Russell Costen     15-May-1945
          in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Paul Shelley     15-May-1942
          in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Lainie Kazan     15-May-1940
          in New York, New York, USA
John Verpoorten     15-May-1940
          in USA
Trini López     15-May-1937
          in Dallas, Texas, USA
Akihiro Miwa     15-May-1935
          in Nagasaki, Japan
Nello Pazzafini     15-May-1934
          in Rome, Italy
John Glen     15-May-1932
          in Sunbury-on-Thames, England, UK
Roger Kemp     15-May-1931
          in Bristol, England, UK
David Healy     15-May-1929
          in New York, USA
Peggy Pope     15-May-1929
          in Montclair, New Jersey, USA
Regis Cordic     15-May-1926
          in Hazelwood, Pennsylvania, USA
John Crewdson     15-May-1926
          in Horley, Surrey, England, UK
Anthony Shaffer     15-May-1926
          in Liverpool, England, UK
Peter Shaffer     15-May-1926
          in Liverpool, England, UK
Valerian Smith     15-May-1926
Howard Morton     15-May-1925
          in New York, New York, USA
Joe Milazzo     15-May-1924
          in Wildwood, New Jersey, USA
Doris Dowling     15-May-1923
          in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Joseph Wiseman     15-May-1918
          in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Wade Barnes     15-May-1917
          in Alliance, Ohio, USA
Mario Monicelli     15-May-1915
          in Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
André De Toth     15-May-1912
          in Makó, Csongrád, Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Hung
Leo Fuchs     15-May-1911
          in Lemberg (Lwów), Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine
James Mason     15-May-1909
          in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Joseph Cotten     15-May-1905
          in Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Lee Phelps     15-May-1893
          in Pennsylvania, USA
Joel Friedkin     15-May-1885
          in Russia
Arthur Schnitzler     15-May-1862
          in Vienna, Austria
L Frank Baum     15-May-1856
          in Chittenango, New York, USA

Deaths


Paul Cassidy     15-May-2005
          in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Clint Warwick     15-May-2004
          in Birmingham, England, UK
Bryan Pringle     15-May-2002
          in London, England, UK.
Barton Heyman     15-May-1996
          in New York, New York, USA
Gilbert Roland     15-May-1994
          in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Royal Dano     15-May-1994
          in Los Angeles, California, USA
Bartlett Mullins     15-May-1992
Ronald Lacey     15-May-1991
          in London, England, UK
Peter Grimwade     15-May-1990
          in London, England, UK
Andrew Duggan     15-May-1988
          in Westwood, California, USA
Lela Bliss     15-May-1980
          in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
Milton Parsons     15-May-1980
          in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Nigel Green     15-May-1972
          in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Carol Tevis     15-May-1965
          in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
Sam Buffington     15-May-1960
          in Los Angeles, California, USA
John Arledge     15-May-1947
          in Hollywood, California, USA.

Books published

Betty Zane (15-May-2012)
[ United States Book on CD ]
Chimaera's Copper (15-May-1991)
[ United States Mass Market Paperback ]
Destiny's Road (15-May-1998)
[ United States Paperback A ]
Dhalgren (15-May-2001)
[ United States Paperback ]
Doctor Who - Timelash (15-May-1986)
[ United Kingdom Mass Market Paperback ]
The Fabulous Riverboat (15-May-1981)
[ United States Mass Market Paperback ]
Heartfire (15-May-1999)
[ United States Paperback ]
The Hunt for Red October (15-May-2018)
[ United States Audiobook ]
Keys to the Kingdom (15-May-2012)
[ United States Graphic Novel Hardback ]
Nightdreamers (15-May-2002)
[ United States Hardback ]
Oh No It Isn't (15-May-1997)
[ United Kingdom ]
Spirit of Dorsai (15-May-1993)
[ United States Paperback ]

Albums released

R.E.M. 15-May-1984 So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)

Shows released

15-May-2003 The Gathering
15-May-2003 The Matrix Reloaded
15-May-1998 Quest for Camelot
15-May-1992 Lethal Weapon 3
15-May-1988 The Storyteller

Stamps issued

Albania 15-May-1970 10q Aztec Stadium, Mexico City
Argentina 15-May-1967 20m$n José Francisco de San Martín (1778-1850)
Argentina 15-May-1974 30¢ General Manuel Belgrano (1770-1820)
Argentina 15-May-1974 1.20$L José Francisco de San Martín (1778-1850)
Australia 15-May-1985 33c Tree & Soil
Austria 15-May-1970 1öS Romanesque cloister, Millstatt Abbey
Berlin 15-May-1975 50pf Earth station Raisting
Berlin 15-May-1975 100pf Coal Conveyor Excavator
Canada 15-May-1939 Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Czechoslovakia 15-May-1954 50h Soldier
Czechoslovakia 15-May-1954 80h Textile Worker
Czechoslovakia 15-May-1954 1.20Kčs Scientist
Czechoslovakia 15-May-1954 2.40Kčs Engine Driver
Czechoslovakia 15-May-1954 3Kčs Chemist
Czechoslovakia 15-May-1986 4Kčs Mexico 1986 Football World Cup
Ecuador 15-May-1975 5S/. President Martinez Mera
France 15-May-1999 3₣ Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, Lower Rhine
Germany 15-May-1975 40pf Space laboratory (Spacelab)
Germany 15-May-1975 50pf Dish Aerial / Raisting earth station
Germany 15-May-1975 100pf Lignite/Brown coal conveyor excavator
Germany Allied Occupation (ABS Zone) 15-May-1947 75pf Heinrich von Stephan
Japan 15-May-1906 1½Sn Chrysanthemum - 1 sen 1/2 violet
Japan 15-May-1906 3Sn Chrysanthemum - 3 sen carmine
Japan 15-May-1963 Emperor's Slit Shell (Pleurotomaria hirasei)
Japan 15-May-1967 45¥ Asian Skunk Cabbage - Lysichiton camtschatcensis
Japan 15-May-1992 62¥ 20th Anniversary of the Return of Okinawa to Japan
Soviet Union 15-May-1981 6K Cosmanaut Training on Centrifuge
United States 15-May-1927 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Third President of the USA
United States 15-May-1952 Spillway, Grand Coulee Dam
United States 15-May-1968 10¢ Curtiss Jenny
United States 15-May-1971 Silhouette of Delta Winged Plane
United States 15-May-1981 18¢ Surrey 1890's
United States 15-May-1985 14¢ Official Mail - Stylized eagle
United States 15-May-1985 22¢ Official Mail - Stylized eagle
United States 15-May-2013 (46)¢ Lydia Mendoza







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