May 15: Pentecost (Western Christianity, 2016); Nakba Day in Palestinian communities; Constituent Assembly Day in Lithuania; Sanja Matsuri begins in Tokyo (2016)
An example of Baily's beads
- 392 – Roman emperor Valentinian II was found hanged in his residence in Vienne, Gaul.
- 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 (example pictured).
- 1916 – Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas, US, in what became a well-known example of racially motivated lynching.
- 1948 – The Australian cricket team, on tour in England set a first-class world record that still stands by scoring 721 runs in a day against Essex.
- 1966 – Disapproving of his handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ordered an attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất Đính and ousted him from the position.
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