1891
Philips Electronics was founded in Eindhoven on May 15, 1891
by Gerard Philips as a small lightbulb factory at Emmasingel — joined in 1894 by his younger brother Anton Philips who significantly handled sales and management.
On this day
May 15
Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on May 15 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
2 events
2 centuries
2 countries
1979
Donaustadt
Vienna's selection as the UN's third headquarters city — alongside New York and Geneva — and the 1979 opening of the Vienna International Centre is one of the episodes of Cold-War Austrian foreign policy and the main evidence for Austria's post-1955 "perpetual neutrality" pivot…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →