Today in History.....May 15

On this day in …

* 1911, the Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act

* 1918, U.S. airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York

* 1930, Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.

* 1940, nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States

* 1963, astronaut L. Gordon Cooper blasted off aboard Faith 7 on the final mission of the Project Mercury space program

* 1972, George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel, Md., for the Democratic presidential nomination

* 1986, searchers on Oregon's Mount Hood found two teenage survivors of a hiking expedition that became trapped in a whiteout blizzard.
Nine other climbers died

* 2001, tens of thousands of West Bank and Gaza Arabs packed town squares in Ramallah as they marked what they called the day of "catastrophe" in 1948, when, after being given the chance to share the Holy Land with the Jews, and declined, the State of Israel was created. The gathering was not a public day of introspection, but a venting of anger at the Jewish State.

* 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit to Iraq to express support for its new government