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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15" title="May 15">May 15</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast day</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_Chutu_of_Lismore" title="Mo Chutu of Lismore">Saint Carthage</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a>); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day" title="Nakba Day">Nakba Day</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians" title="Palestinians">Palestinian communities</a>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/392" title="392">392</a> – Roman emperor <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinian_II" title="Valentinian II">Valentinian II</a></b> was found hanged in his residence in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienne,_Is%C3%A8re" title="Vienne, Isère">Vienne</a>, in present-day France.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1855" title="1855">1855</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery" title="Great Gold Robbery">Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold</a></b> from a train travelling from London to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkestone" title="Folkestone">Folkestone</a>, England.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864" title="1864">1864</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: A small <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate</a> force, which included cadets from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Military_Institute" title="Virginia Military Institute">Virginia Military Institute</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Market" title="Battle of New Market">forced</a></b> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> out of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenandoah_Valley" title="Shenandoah Valley">Shenandoah Valley</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904" title="1904">1904</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War" title="Russo-Japanese War">Russo-Japanese War</a>: The Japanese battleships <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Hatsuse" title="Japanese battleship Hatsuse">Hatsuse</a></b></i> and <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yashima" title="Japanese battleship Yashima">Yashima</a></b></i> sank after striking several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine" title="Naval mine">mines</a> off <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCshunkou_District" title="Lüshunkou District">Port Arthur</a>, China.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916" title="1916">1916</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington" title="Lynching of Jesse Washington">Jesse Washington</a></b>, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco,_Texas" title="Waco, Texas">Waco, Texas</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_of_Galeata" title="Hilary of Galeata">Hilary of Galeata</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 558); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson">Emily Dickinson</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1886); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Cariappa" title="K. M. Cariappa">K. M. Cariappa</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1993)</p>