Once Upon A Time – May 15 – 2010  – Jessica Watson, 16 Becomes Youngest Person To Sail Solo, Non-Stop And Unassisted Around The World

1841 First emigrant wagon train to make it to California leaves Independence, Missouri on a 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada

1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1940 Richard and Maurice McDonald open the 1st McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino, California

1951 AT&T becomes the 1st US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases 7 shares worth $1,078

1988 USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan

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2002 “Bowling for Columbine”, a documentary directed by Michael Moore has its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival

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1914 Henri Rabaud’s opera “Marouf, savetier de Caire” premieres in Paris

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2010 Jessica Watson at age 16 becomes the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world

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1928 Mickey Mouse makes his 1st ever appearance in silent film “Plane Crazy”

1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world’s 1st machine gun

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1567 Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell

1825 Author and scholar Wilhelm Grimm (39) weds Henriette Dorothea

1948 American dancer and actress Cyd Charisse (26) weds American pop singer Tony Martin (34)

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