May 15 1525 Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire.
May 15 1792 War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia.
May 15 1796 War of the First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph.
May 15 1849 Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily.
May 15 1864 American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
May 15 1904 Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
May 15 1933 All military aviation organizations within, or under the control of, the RLM of Germany were officially merged in a covert manner, to form its Wehrmacht military's air arm, the Luftwaffe.
May 15 1940 USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus.
May 15 1940 World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
May 15 1941 First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
May 15 1942 World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law.
May 15 1943 Tunisia. 1 and 8 Army met at at Bou Ficha
May 15 1945 World War II: The Battle of Poljana, the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia.
May 15 1957 At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
May 15 1988 Soviet–Afghan War: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdraw 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
May 15 206 Operation
Mountain Thrust begins in the area around Kandahar, led by 3,300
British soldiers supported by American, Canadian, Australian and Afghan
forces.
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