May 15<\/p>\n
1862
\nThe U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.<\/p>\n
1911
\nThe Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.<\/p>\n
1918
\nThe first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
1930
\nOn a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.<\/p>\n
1940
\nNylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.<\/p>\n
1972
\nAlabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.<\/p>\n
1988
\nThe Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
Today’s Birthdays<\/p>\n
Claudio Monteverdi
\ncomposer (1567)<\/p>\n
Lyman Frank Baum
\nauthor (1856)<\/p>\n
Pierre Curie
\nFrench Scientist (1859)<\/p>\n
Katherine Anne Porter
\nauthor, (1890)<\/p>\n
Richard Joseph Daley
\npolitical leader (1902)<\/p>\n
James Mason
\nactor (1909)<\/p>\n
Paul A. Samuelson
\neconomist, (1915)<\/p>\n
Richard Avedon
\nphotographer, (1923)<\/p>\n
Jasper Johns
\nartist (1930)<\/p>\n
Madeleine Albright
\nFormer Secretary of State (1937)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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