TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT May 15, 1948

Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

ON THIS DATE 1928

The Walt Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse made his debut in the silent animated short “Plane Crazy.”

1967

The U.S. Supreme Court, in its unanimous In re Gault decision, ruled that juveniles accused

of crimes were entitled to the same due process afforded adults.

1970

Just after midnight, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two Black students at Jackson State College in Mississippi, were killed as police opened fire during student protests.

2000

By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a key provision of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, saying that rape victims could not sue their attackers in federal court.