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This is a list of selected May 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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May 15: Independence Day in Paraguay (1811); Teachers' Day in Mexico and South Korea; Nakba Day in Palestinian communities

1252 – Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad extirpanda, authorizing the use of torture on heretics during the Medieval Inquisition.

1602 – English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold became the first known European to discover Cape Cod.

1836 – English astronomer Francis Baily first observed "Baily's beads", a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through (example pictured).

1928 – Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their film debut in the animated cartoon Plane Crazy.

1932 – Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated in an attempted coup d'état by radical elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

1955 – The Austrian State Treaty was signed in Vienna, re-establishing an independent Austria.

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-{{*mp}} [[1252]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent IV]] issued the [[papal bull]] '''''[[ad exstirpanda]]''''', authorizing the use of torture on [[Heresy|heretics]] during the [[Medieval Inquisition]].
+{{*mp}} [[1252]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent IV]] issued the [[papal bull]] '''''[[ad extirpanda]]''''', authorizing the use of torture on [[Heresy|heretics]] during the [[Medieval Inquisition]].
 {{*mp}} [[1602]] &ndash; [[England|English]] explorer '''[[Bartholomew Gosnold]]''' became the first known [[Europe]]an to discover [[Cape Cod]].
 {{*mp}} [[1836]] &ndash; [[England|English]] astronomer '''[[Francis Baily]]''' first observed "[[Baily's beads]]"<!--Not bold, stubby-->, a phenomenon during a [[solar eclipse]] in which the rugged [[lunar limb]] topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through ''(example pictured)''.