Today is Monday, May 15, the 135th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 230 days remaining.
There are:
11 days until the
start of Ramadan;
14 days until Memorial
Day;
20 days until Pentecost;
30
days until Flag
Day;
37 days until the
Summer Solstice;
41 days until the
end of Ramadan;
41 days until Father's
Day;
50 days until Independence
Day (July 4);
112 days until Labor
Day;
540 days until the
2018 mid-term elections; and
Donald Trump has been President of
the United States for 116 days. There are 1,347 days remaining, assuming
he doesn't resign or is otherwise removed from office.
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On this day in 1928, the Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, a silent film called "Plane Crazy", in a test screening before a theater audience. Sound was added, and the film was later released as the fourth Mickey Mouse cartoon, after Steamboat Willie, The Gallopin' Caucho, and The Barn Dance.
The sound-added version of Plane Crazy, released a year later in
1929.
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Among other things, today is also National Chocolate Chip Day.
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The New York Times' On This Day for today.
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Some persons born on May 15 who said interesting things:
- Roger Ailes (1940), American media consultant and former television executive;
- Madeleine Albright (1937), American politician and diplomat;
- Richard Avedon (1923-2004), American fashion and portrait photographer;
- L. Frank Baum (1856-1010), American novelist;
- Ulrich Beck (1944-2015), German sociologist;
- Pierre Curie (), French physicist;
- Brian Eno (1948), English musician;
- Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999), American intellectual;
- Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss playwright and novelist;
- Laura Hillenbrand (1967), American author;
- Jasper Johns (1930), American artist;
- Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English aristocrat, letter writer and poet;
- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980), American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist;
- Paul Samuelson (1915-2009), American economist;
- Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Austrian author;
- Peter Shaffer (1926-2016), English playwright and screenwriter;
- Ralph Steadman (1936), Welsh artist;
- Frank Wilczek (1951), American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate;
(The KGB Quotations Database currently contains 52,042 entries.)
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Quote of the day:
"Donald Trump is the only person in the world who can look at the
Watergate experience and say, 'tape recordings... now there's an
idea!'"
-Eric Bates
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NASA denies Trump's request to send astronauts past the moon on new rocket. Putting astronauts on the first flight would have added $600 million to $900 million to the $24 billion price tag and delayed the launch until probably the first half of 2020.
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A stunningly well-preserved dinosaur "mummy" found in Canada. For paleontologists the dinosaur’s amazing level of fossilization- caused by its rapid undersea burial- is as rare as winning the lottery. Usually just the bones and teeth are preserved, and only rarely do minerals replace soft tissues before they rot away.
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What you need to know about the WannaCry ransomware attack.
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Eating sushi can give you Anisakiasis.
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The human sense of smell is better than previously thought. But dogs don't have to be concerned.
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What if all the ice on Earth melted? The planet would have an average temperature of about 80 degrees Fahrenheit, hotter than the current average temperature of 58 degrees Fahrenheit, and an increase of 216 feet in seawater levels.
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In a 2014 interview, fired FBI director James Comey warned "You cannot trust people in power."
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