FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2009

Today is Friday, May 15, the 135th day of 2009. There are 230 days left in the year.

1525 _ German Boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer War

1536 _ Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest

1618 _ Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law

1672 _ First copyright law enacted by Massachusetts

1730 _ Robert Walpole becomes England first prime minister (was chief minister)

1928 _ Mickey Mouse made his first appearance

1953 _ Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago for heavyweight boxing title

1957 _ First British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)

1961 _ 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1989 _ Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years