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