Fw: On This Day in History (May 15): First Wagon Train to California, Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan and When the Taxman Came for the Madam

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On This Day in History

? Pope issues the papal bull Ad Extirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition

? German astronomer discovers the third of his three planetary laws, the "harmonic law"

Print from 1869 showing oxen-drawn covered wagons, men on horseback, oxen and a dog crossing the plains to California.

? First to reach California leaves Independence, Missouri, on a 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada

? National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by and ?

? becomes the first US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases seven shares worth $1,078

? The begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan

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If I agreed to your demand for cash payment it means that you would be living off immoral earnings, celebrated Madam tells the tax authority.

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