On This Day: May 15 On May 15, 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. On May 15, 1902, Richard Daley, the powerful mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976 was born. Following his death on Dec. 20, 1976, his obituary appeared in The Times. 1886 Poet Emily Dickinson died at age 55. 1930 Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight from San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo. 1948 Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. 1969 Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigned amid a controversy over his past legal fees. 1970 Two black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi were killed when police opened fire during student protests. 1972 Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Laurel, Md., and left permanently paralyzed below the waist. 1988 The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. 2001 A runaway freight train rolled about 70 miles through Ohio with no one aboard before a railroad employee jumped onto the locomotive and brought it to a stop. 2003 Texas Democrats returned home after a self-imposed four-day exile in Oklahoma in a dispute over a redistricting plan. 2006 A defiant Saddam Hussein refused to enter a plea at his trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity, insisting he was still the countrys president. 2006 The United States removed Libya from its list of terrorist states. 2007 The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who helped build the Christian right into a political force, died at age 73. 2007 Yolanda King, the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died at age 51. 2008 Californias Supreme Court declared gay couples in the state could marry – a victory for the gay rights movement that was overturned by the passage of Proposition 8 the following November. Current Birthdays Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright turns 77 years old today. Colorado Rockies first baseman Justin Morneau turns 33 years old today. 1926 Peter Shaffer, Playwright, turns 88 1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti, Actress, turns 78 1936 Wavy Gravy, Counterculture icon, turns 78 1937 Trini Lopez, Singer, turns 77 1940 Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of Fox News, turns 74 1942 K.T. Oslin, Country singer, turns 72 1948 Brian Eno, Music producer, songwriter, turns 66 1948 Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of health and human services, turns 66 1952 Chazz Palminteri, Actor, turns 62 1953 George Brett, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 61 1953 Michael Oldfield, Composer (Tubular Bells), turns 61 1967 John Smoltz, Baseball player, turns 47 1969 Emmitt Smith, Football Hall of Famer, turns 45 1975 Ray Lewis, Football player, turns 39 1978 David Krumholtz, Actor (Numb3rs), turns 36 1980 Josh Beckett, Baseball player, turns 34 1981 Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Actress (The Sopranos), turns 33
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