{"id":407,"date":"2026-05-15T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:03:22","slug":"today-in-history-may-15-first-mcdonalds-opens-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Today in History: May 15, first McDonald\u2019s opens in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Today is Friday, May 15, the 135th day of 2026. There are 230 days left in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=405\">Colorado lacrosse suffers double OT heartbreak in NCAA quarterfinals<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Today in history:<\/h4>\n<p>On May 15, 1940, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald\u2019s fast-food restaurant, in San Bernardino, California.<\/p>\n<h4>Also on this date:<\/h4>\n<p>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<p>In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed an act establishing the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=384\">Gun shop owner objects to bill increase after Broncos become his landlord<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=382\">Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion pill, while lawsuit plays out<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Today\u2019s Birthdays:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Artist Jasper Johns is 96.<\/li>\n<li>Counterculture icon Wavy Gravy is 90.<\/li>\n<li>Actor-singer Lainie Kazan is 86.<\/li>\n<li>Basketball Hall of Fame coach Don Nelson is 86.<\/li>\n<li>Musician Brian Eno is 78.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Chazz Palminteri is 74.<\/li>\n<li>Baseball Hall of Famer George Brett is 73.<\/li>\n<li>Rapper Melle Mel is 65.<\/li>\n<li>Baseball Hall of Famer John Smoltz is 59.<\/li>\n<li>Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith is 57.<\/li>\n<li>Football Hall of Famer Ray Lewis is 51.<\/li>\n<li>Actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler is 45.<\/li>\n<li>Tennis player Andy Murray is 39.<\/li>\n<li>French soccer player Ousmane Dembele is 29.<\/li>\n<li>Pop singer Haerin is 20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald\u2019s fast-food restaurant, in San Bernardino, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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