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This is a list of selected May 15 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
; Constituent Assembly Day in Lithuania no footnotes
Teachers' Day in Mexico and South Korea; refimprove
Independence Day in Paraguay (1814); outdated, multiple issues section
1793 – Inventor Diego Marín Aguilera, the "father of aviation" in Spain, flew one of the first gliders for about 300 yd (270 m). heavily reliant on unreliable sources
1850 – Members of the United States 1st Cavalry Regiment massacred at least 135 Pomo in Lake County, California. Conflicts with lead and infobox. The body says 60 Pomo on the island and 75 Indians on the Russian River
1891Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum novarum, which addressed the condition of the working classes and is considered to be the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching. primary sources
1905Las Vegas was established as a railroad town, after 110 acres (0.45 km2) owned by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad was auctioned off. refimprove section
1928Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their film debuts in the animated cartoon Plane Crazy. M/M both: refimprove section; Plane Crazy: refimprove section
1934 – Latvian Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis dissolved the Saeima and established an authoritarian rule. needs expert attention, refimprove
1932 – Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated in an attempted coup d'état by radical elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy. refimprove section, expansion
1935 – The first line of the Moscow Metro opened to the public, connecting Sokolniki to Park Kultury with a branch from Okhotny Ryad to Smolenskaya. outdated
1941 – Playing for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball, Joe DiMaggio began a 56-game hitting streak, setting a record that still stands today. trivial pop culture references
1948 – One day after the End of the British Mandate for Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia joined the ongoing conflict to begin the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. lots of CN tags (11)
1955 – The Austrian State Treaty was signed in Vienna, re-establishing an independent Austria. needs more footnots
1974 – A unit of the Golani Brigade assaulted an elementary school in Ma'alot, Israel, where three armed members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine had taken 115 people hostage, resulting in 28 deaths. refimprove section
1991Édith Cresson became the only female prime minister of France. unreferenced section
1997 – During the dedication of the Laos Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, the United States first publicly acknowledged its role in the Laotian Civil War, which had ended 22 years earlier. lots of CN tags (14)
Mleh, Prince of Armenia |d|1175 missing page numbers
* 1525 – Insurgent peasants led by preacher Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War. Tagged for lack of page numbers

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May 15: Feast day of Saint Carthage (Catholicism); Nakba Day in Palestinian communities

Statue of Valentinian II
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