May 15

May 15

St. Dymphna, (asylums, mental health workers; invoked against epilepsy, insanity, sleepwalking0, St. Hallvard, (Oslo, in defense of innocence), St Isodore, (farmers, ranchers)

National Chocolate Chip Day, Police Officers Memorial Day

1817-1^st private mental health hospital in US opened-The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, (now Friends Hosp)

1918- USPO began first regular air mail service

1930-1^st Air Stewardess, Ellen Church, cared for passengers on a flight from Oakland, CA to Cheyanne, WY.

     

Birthdays:

L. Frank Baum – 1856

Pierre Curie – 1859

Wavy Gravy-1936

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
— L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)