Today is Wednesday, May 15, the 135th day of 2002. <$>There are 230 days left in the year.On this dateIn 1602, Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.

In 1930, Ellen Church, the first airline stewardess, went on duty aboard a United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Cheyenne, Wyo.

In 1940, nylon stockings went on general sale for the first time in the United States.

In 1970, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, were killed when police opened fire during student protests.

In 1991, French President Francois Mitterrand appointed Edith Cresson to be France’s first female premier.Thought for the Day“History is a better guide than good intentions.” — Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former US ambassador to the United Nations.