History Hop Tags - 15th

837-02-27

15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1311-10-16

Council of Vienne (15th ecumenical council) opens

1792-06-01

Kentucky admitted as 15th US state

1856-11-04

James Buchanan elected 15th US president

1865-01-13

-Jan 15th] BBT & CPT Ft Fisher, NC

1867-10-14

15th & last Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns in Japan

1869-02-26

15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states to ratify

1870-01-27

After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union

1870-02-03

US state of Iowa ratifies the 15th Amendment of the United States Constitution allowing suffrage for all races & colour

1870-03-30

15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote regardless of race

1881-06-07

15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47

1887-05-13

15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39.25

1889-05-09

15th Kentucky Derby: Thomas Kiley aboard Spokane wins in 2:34.50

1891-07-09

15th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim (6-4 1-6 7-5 6-0)

1895-08-27

15th US Men's Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (6-3 6-2 6-4)

1898-06-28

15th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Charlotte Sterry beats L Martin (6-4 6-4)

1909-06-24

15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ

1911-04-19

15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6

1918-09-05

Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early

1918-09-11

Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series

1920-07-16

15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)

1926-11-03

15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins

1927-05-26

Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15th million) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie

1927-11-26

15th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Hamilton Tigers, 9-6

1929-02-28

Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home

1930-09-18

Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (England) in 15th America's Cup

1932-05-15

The 15th May Incident: in an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.

1932-09-04

15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller GC St Paul Minn

1935-04-18

Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters

1940-03-07

Mont Canadiens lose record tying NHL 15th straight game at home

1942-11-14

-Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal)

1943-03-04

15th Academy Awards - "Mrs. Miniver", James Cagney & Greer Garson win

1944-07-19

500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity

1944-07-20

US 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen

1944-08-08

US 15th Army corps occupies Le Mans

1944-08-16

US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux

1944-08-18

US 15th Army Corps reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris

1944-08-19

US 15th Army Corps occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris

1944-09-06

Gen Von Zangen's 15th army escape from Zealand

1946-05-10

Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam

1948-07-13

15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis

1948-08-20

15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)

1949-12-07

15th Heisman Trophy Award: Leon Hart, Notre Dame (E)

1951-04-07

15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280

1952-07-19

15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland

1952-08-03

15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland

1953-03-18

15th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68

1955-03-31

US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan

1955-05-01

Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)

1960-07-23

15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls

1961-04-11

15th NBA Championship: Bos Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 1

1961-04-16

15th Tony Awards: Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win

1961-10-07

15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago

1963-05-26

15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth win

1963-08-21

Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit HR gives Pirates a 7-6 win

1963-10-13

15th Ryder Cup: US beats 23-9 at East Lake Country Club (Atlanta, Georgia, US)

1968-01-13

Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th)

1968-04-20

Pierre Trudeau sworn in as Canada's 15th Prime Minister

1968-06-15

15th Curtis Cup: US wins 10½-7½ at Royal County Down Golf Club (Newcastle, Northern Ireland)

1969-07-27

15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls

1972-01-08

Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow

1972-06-01

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin

1972-08-17

Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game

1973-03-04

15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America

1973-07-15

Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs

1974-05-17

Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet

1974-10-25

Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th String Quartet premieres in Leningrad

1975-05-14

Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II

1977-10-18

1st Islander 0-0 tie-Kings at Nassau-25th time shutout-Resch's 15th

1979-04-16

15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1

1979-09-12

Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits

1980-05-01

15th Academy of Country Music Awards: Barbara Mandrell wins

1980-09-01

Jerry Lewis' 15th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,103,787

1980-11-08

Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn

1981-01-13

Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals

1981-01-22

40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th

1981-06-08

15th Music City News Country Awards: Mandrell Sisters

1981-10-12

15th Country Music Association Award: Barbara Mandrell & George Jones wins

1982-02-20

NY Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game

1982-05-06

Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games

1983-07-03

Rangers explode for 12 runs in 15th inning of a 16-4 win over the A's

1984-10-28

15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53

1985-01-24

15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched

1985-01-27

15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth

1985-03-31

15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000

1985-04-09

White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game

1985-10-27

15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34

1986-04-06

15th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Pat Bradley

1986-04-21

15th Boston Women's Marathon won by I Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:55

1986-05-06

Berlin: Real Madrid wins 15th UEFA Cup

1987-07-12

15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal

1988-01-25

15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston

1988-02-13

15th Winter Olympic games opens at Calgary, Canada

1988-02-28

15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada

1988-06-29

Emmy 15th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 9th time

1989-03-12

15th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)

1991-08-24

Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0

1991-11-06

Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA

1993-01-19

Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA

1993-06-19

Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord's

1994-01-15

15th ACE Cable Awards: Michael Fuchs wins the Golden CableACE for outstanding achievements in advancing the development of cable programming

1994-04-19

15th Emmy Sports Award presentation

1994-05-28

Twin's Dave Winfield passes Rod Carew into 15th hit list (3,054)

1994-07-03

15th US Seniors Golf Open: Simon Hobday

1995-01-08

15th United Negro College Fund raises $12,200,000

1995-03-26

15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins

1995-05-19

Emmy 22nd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 15th time

1995-10-04

Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners

1996-03-31

15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tenn beats Georgia 83-65

1997-05-20

White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time

1997-07-13

15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert

1997-08-20

Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA

1997-10-21

Cleve Marquis Grissom hit in his 15th straight World Series game (streak ends at 15, he is 2nd to Hank Baur with 17)

1998-04-29

15th Miss Hawaiian Tropic crowned

1998-09-10

15th MTV Awards: Madonna & Will Smith wins

1999-02-26

15th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins

2001-02-28

15th Soul Train Music Awards: The Isley Brothers, Destiny's Child & Jay-Z win

2007-07-11

15th ESPY Awards: LaDainian Tomlinson, Taryne Mowatt win

2009-07-05

123rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roger Federer beats Andy Roddick (5-7 7-6 7-6 3-6 16-14), winning a record 15th Grand Slam titles

2013-05-14

Brazil becomes the 15th country to legalize same-sex marriage

2014-02-21

10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded

86-09-19

Antoninus Pius, Lanuvium, 15th Roman emperor (138-161)

1721-12-29

Madame De Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th

1791-04-23

James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)

1809-08-27

Hannibal Hamlin, (R) 15th VP (1861-65)

1878-06-01

John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)

1890-07-18

Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)

1914-07-17

Eleanor Steber, The 15th Annual Tony Awards

1919-10-18

Pierre Elliott Trudeau, (L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)

1919-10-18

Pierre Trudeau, Montreal Quebec, 15th Prime Minister of Canada

1925-10-17

Jack Wagner, Walt Disney World's 15th Anniversary Celebration

1934-03-14

Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army

1938-05-09

Charles Simic Yugoslavian-born poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

1942-01-02

Hugh Shelton, 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

1947-9-16

Rex Fowler, The Aztec Two Step 15th Anniversary Show

1956-01-07

Robin Walton, Boise ID, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland Classic-15th)

1959-04-22

Nicky Le Roux, South Africa, LPGA golfer (1994 Atlanta Champ-15th)

1961-02-24

Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)

1961-06-02

Kerry Junna-Saxby, Australian 10k walker (Olympics-15th-1992, 96)

1962-05-25

Amy Read, Birmingham MI, golfer (1994 Healthsouth Palm Beach-15th)

1968-9-28

Sean Levert, The 15th Annual American Music Awards

1969-04-25

Nir Shental, Israel, Men's 470 yachter (Oly-15th-1996)

1969-10-21

John McMullen, Santa Rosa California, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 NCAA-15th)

1969-11-11

LaRee Pearl Sugg, Petersburg VA, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-15th)

1970-08-10

Brendon Julian, 15th Birthday Special

1973-05-06

Wendy Ward, San Antonio Texas, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Classic-15th)

1994-01-07

Manon Gaurin, August 15th

1868-06-01

James Buchanan, 15th US president (1857-61), dies at 77

1983-01-28

Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)

1990-10-03

Eleanor Steber, The 15th Annual Tony Awards

1995-06-16

Jack Wagner, Walt Disney World's 15th Anniversary Celebration

2000-09-28

Pierre Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)

2008-03-30

Sean Levert, The 15th Annual American Music Awards

2009-08-18

Kim Dae-jung,15th President of South Korea (b. 1925)