^B{^#!16!15 May^N! Feast day of St Berchtun, St Dympna, St Pachomius, Saints Bertha and Rupert, St Isidore of Chios, St Gerebernus, St Hallvard, St Isias of Rostov, St Hilary of Galeata, St Peter of Lampsacus, St Isidore the Farmer, and St Torquatus and his Companions.
^B{1567^B} Mary Queen of Scots married Bothwell in Edinburgh. ^B{1649^B} The Levellers were defeated at Burford. ^B{1848^B} A communist rising began in Paris, after news of suppression of Polish revolt; workers overturned the government and set up a provisional administration which immediately collapsed. ^B{1902^B} Portugal declared itself bankrupt. ^B{1922^B} Germany ceded Upper Silesia to Poland. ^B{1937^B} Muslim rising in Albania. ^B{1946^B} US President Truman signed a bill of credit for $3.75 billion for Britain. ^B{1948^B} Egyptian troops intervened in Palestine on the side of the Arabs. ^B{1957^B} Britain exploded the first British thermonuclear bomb in megaton range at Christmas Island, in the Central Pacific.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Clemens Prince Metternich, Austrian politician, ^B{1773^B}; Pierre Curie, French physicist, ^B{1859^B}; Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian novelist and playwright, ^B{1862^B}; James Mason, US film actor, ^B{1909^B}; Ted Dexter, English cricketer, ^B{1935^B}; Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist, ^B{1936^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopedist, ^B{1740^B}; Richard Wilson, Welsh landscape painter, ^B{1782^B}; Daniel O'Connell, Irish leader, ^B{1847^B}; Emily Dickinson, US poet, ^B{1886^B}; Leslie Ward ('Spy'), English caricaturist, ^B{1922^B}; Rita Hayworth, US film actress, ^B{1987^B}.
