What happened on 15 May?

12 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1948 Nakba Around 700,000 Palestinians are expelled or flee during and after the 1948 war.
2. 1919 Greek-Turkish War / Asia Minor campaign Greek attempt to expand into Anatolia ends in catastrophic defeat.
3. 1859 Born: Pierre Curie French physicist; pioneer of radioactivity research with his wife Marie; co-discovered radium and polonium.
4. 1944 The deportation of Hungary's Jews With the war visibly lost, the machinery runs faster than ever: in eight weeks, 437,000 Hungarian Jews are deported, most to Birkenau, where the crematoria cannot keep pace. It sto
5. 1773 Born: Klemens von Metternich Austrian Chancellor; architect of the Congress of Vienna and post-Napoleonic order.
6. 1682 The Streltsy revolt of 1682 Days after the ten-year-old Peter is proclaimed tsar, the Streltsy musketeers storm the Kremlin and butcher his mother's relatives on the palace steps — some in front of the boy hi
7. 1633 Born: Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban Military engineer of Louis XIV; revolutionised fortification and siegecraft.
8. 2012 Presidency of François Hollande Same-sex marriage, the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks, and the lowest approval ratings of the Fifth Republic.
9. 1972 Reversion of Okinawa US returns Okinawa to Japan after 27 years of military rule; American bases remain.
10. 1891 Rerum Novarum Leo XIII's encyclical on capital and labour — workers' rights, just wages, unions — founds modern Catholic social teaching and answers Marx in papal Latin.
11. 1919 Winnipeg General Strike Thirty thousand workers shut down a city for six weeks until 'Bloody Saturday' breaks the strike — Canadian labour's founding trauma and myth.
12. 1941 DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak Two months of getting a hit every single game — a record no one has come close to since.