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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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Teachers' Day in Mexico and South Korea; refimprove
1252Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull Ad extirpanda, authorizing the use of torture on heretics during the Medieval Inquisition. short
1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire. lots of {{cn}} tags
Independence Day in Paraguay (1814); outdated, refimprove section
1836 – English astronomer Francis Baily first observed "Baily's beads", a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through. one source, and Baily's beads is stubby
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
1934Latvian Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis dissolved the Saeima and established an authoritarian rule. needs expert attention, refimprove
1932Japanese 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 public, connecting Sokolniki to Park Kultury with a branch from Okhotny Ryad to Smolenskaya. unreferenced section
1948 – One day after the Israeli Declaration of Independence, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invaded Israel to begin the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. neutrality issues
1955 – The Austrian State Treaty was signed in Vienna, re-establishing an independent Austria. unreferenced
1957 – The United Kingdom tested its first hydrogen bomb over Malden Island in Operation Grapple. unreferenced section
1972 - The Ryukyu Islands were returned to Japan by the United States, and the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands was abolished. refimprove
1991Édith Cresson became the only female Prime Minister of France. refimprove

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May 15: Nakba Day in Palestinian communities; Constituent Assembly Day in Lithuania

Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr. Gachet"

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