May 15th
Today in America's Present Past
1672 | The first copyright law was enacted by Massachusetts.
1749 | Politician Levi Lincoln, Sr. was born.
1817 | First private mental health hospital opens in America, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1841 | The first successful wagon train completed its journey from Missouri to California.
1852 | POTUS: First Lady Louisa Adams died.
1854 | Indian Wars: Asbill massacre.
1856 | Author L. Frank Baum was born.
1862 | POTUS: Republican President Lincoln signed legislation creating the Department of Agriculture.
1869 | Civil Rights: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
1886 | Poet Emily Dickinson died.
1911 | Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity forms at Indiana University.
1952 | Entrepreneur David Brandon was born in Dearborn, Michigan.
1969 | Bloody Thursday at People’s Park in Berkeley, California.
1970 | Jackson State University shootings, Jackson, Mississippi.
1972 | Presidential candidate George C. Wallace was wounded in an assassination attempt in Laurel, Maryland.
1986 | Author Theodore H. White died.