May 15

Tuesday 15, 1951:

The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czeslaw Milosz, asks the French government for political asylum.

Saturday 15, 1943:

Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).

Friday 15, 1914:

Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Friday 15, 1514:

Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

Wednesday 15, 1252:

Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.