Racist politician's brush with death changes him forever
But in the aftermath of the shooting that left him paralysed from the waist down, Wallace underwent a political reawakening.
While his bid for the US presidency was over, he continued to win elections for governor and the support of many black voters and politicians for whom he'd once been a symbol of hate.
Just two years before his death in 1998, he admitted his policies of segregating Alabama schools on racial lines had been wrong.
Australian teenager Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world on May 15, 2010.
The 16-year-old sailed her yacht Ella's Pink Lady into Sydney Harbour after 210 days at sea, three days before her birthday.
Fans of English Premier League football team Arsenal broke into wild celebrations when their team finished the season undefeated on May 15, 2004.
The North London club clinched the Premier League title by amassing 26 wins and 12 draws.
Britpop band Blur achieved their first number one album on May 15, 1994, with Parklife, featuring hit songs such as Girls & Boys and End of a Century.
The English band's third studio album marked their commercial breakthrough, and remained on the UK charts for 90 weeks.
On May 15, 1618, German astronomer, Johannes Kepler discovered the third of his three planetary laws, the "harmonic law".
It detailed the the harmonious relationship between distance and time in planetary orbits, and was part of Kepler's three laws which show how planets orbit the sun.
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