CoM Moderators Posted May 15 Posted May 15 1876 - 2nd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25 1940 - German armoured division moves into Northern France 1941 - New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak, with the only RBI, in a 13-1 loss to visiting Chicago White Sox 1943 - Halifax bombers sinks U-463 1953 - Osip Zadkine's monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam 1957 - Evangelist Billy Graham launches his "crusade" in front of 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden in NYC 1964 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1991 - US President George H. W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Baltimore Oriole game 1992 - Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue 1995 - China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC More Historical Events »
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