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15 May

This year

In History

  • 756 – Abd al-Rahman I, the founder of the Arab dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries, becomes emir of Cordoba.
  • 1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his third law of planetary motion.
  • 1905 – The city of Las Vegas is founded.
  • 1940 – The McDonald brothers open the first McDonald's restaurant.
  • 1948 – Start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • 1957 – Operation Grapple (Britain's test of its first H bomb).

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