Today in History From JJD

May 15th. Past Events.

1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1730 - Robert Walpole becomes effectively Britain's 1st prime minister (was: chief min)
1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1988 - USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan

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1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
1825 - Author Wilhelm Grimm (39) weds Henriette Dorothea
1948 - Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse (26) weds singer Tony Martin (34)
1965 - Director Martin Scorsese (22) weds Laraine Brennan in New York
1993 - Actress Jane Seymour weds actor James Kesch

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