Today is Friday, May 15, the 135th day of 2026. There are 230 days left in the year.<\/p>\n
Today in history:<\/p>\n
On May 15, 1940, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald\u2019s fast-food restaurant, in San Bernardino, California.<\/p>\n
Also on this date:<\/p>\n
In 1800, President John Adams ordered government offices to relocate from Philadelphia to the newly-constructed city of Washington, in the federal District of Columbia.<\/p>\n
In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act establishing the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n
In 1928, the Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse appeared for the first time in front of a public audience in a test screening of the short \u201cPlane Crazy.\u201d (Mickey made his formal screen debut with the release of \u201cSteamboat Willie\u201d six months later.)<\/p>\n
In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its In re Gault decision, ruled that juveniles accused of crimes were entitled to the same due process afforded adults.<\/p>\n
In 1970, less than two weeks after the National Guard shooting at Kent State University, two Black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi were killed and 12 were injured when police opened fire during student demonstrations.<\/p>\n
In 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning for president in Laurel, Maryland, by Arthur H. Bremer, who would serve 35 years in prison for the attempted murder.<\/p>\n
In 1972, the U.S. returned administrative control to Japan of the island of Okinawa, which had been seized by American forces near the end of World War II in 1945. (The U.S. maintained a significant military presence on Okinawa.)<\/p>\n
In 2015, a jury sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR\u2019 tsahr-NEYE\u2019-ehv) to death for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and left more than 260 wounded.<\/p>\n
In 2020, President Donald Trump formally unveiled a coronavirus vaccine program called \u201cOperation Warp Speed,\u201d to speed development of COVID-19 vaccines and quickly distribute them around the country.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/p>\n
Artist Jasper Johns is 96.
\nCounterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 90.
\nActor-singer Lainie Kazan is 86.
\nBasketball Hall of Fame coach Don Nelson is 86.
\nMusician Brian Eno is 78.
\nActor Chazz Palminteri is 74.
\nBaseball Hall of Famer George Brett is 73.
\nRapper Melle Mel is 65.
\nBaseball Hall of Famer John Smoltz is 59.
\nFootball Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith is 57.
\nFootball Hall of Famer Ray Lewis is 51.
\nActor Jamie-Lynn Sigler is 45.
\nTennis player Andy Murray is 39.
\nFrench soccer player Ousmane Dembele is 29.
\nPop singer Haerin is 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Friday, May 15, the 135th day of 2026. There are 230 days left in the year.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,132431,132430,9039],"class_list":["post-316959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-first-mcdonalds","tag-may-15-history","tag-today-in-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}