January 15

January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are
350 days remaining (351 in leap years).

Events

   * 1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
   * 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland
   * 1759 - The British Museum opens
   * 1777 - American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day
     Vermont) declares its independence.
   * 1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United
     States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and
     decimal coinage
   * 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana.
   * 1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United
     States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead
     Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
   * 1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball
   * 1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people
   * 1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland
   * 1920 - Prohibition goes into effect
   * 1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is
     completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois
     Glass Company).
   * 1943 - World War II: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
   * 1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated
     (Arlington, Virginia).
   * 1951 - Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of
     the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in
     a court in West Germany
   * 1967 - Super Bowl I is played -- The Green Bay Packers defeat the
     Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10
   * 1969 - The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5
   * 1970 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra
     surrenders.
   * 1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya
   * 1973 - Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of
     the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive
     action in North Vietnam.
   * 1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola
   * 1974 - Happy Days premiers on ABC.
   * 1976 - Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is
     sentenced to life in prison.
   * 1992 - The Federal Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia ceases to exist.
     Slovenia and Croatia gain independence
   * 1998 - The stalker of Howard Stern, Lance Carvin, is sentenced to 2 1/2
     years for threatening to kill Stern and his family.
   * 2001 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online
     (Wikipedia Day).

Births

   * 1622 - Jean Baptiste Moliere, French playwright (+ 1673)
   * 1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian lyricist (+ 1872)
   * 1850 - Mihai Eminescu, outstanding Romanian poet (+ 1889)
   * 1870 - Pierre S. DuPont, industrialist
   * 1863 - Wilhelm Marx, German politician, chancellor of the Weimar
     Republic
   * 1892 - Rex Ingram, director, writer (+ 1950)
   * 1893 - Ivor Novello, actor, musician (+ 1951)
   * 1899 - Goodman Ace, actor, comedian, writer (+ 1982)
   * 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner (+1975)
   * 1908 - Edward Teller
   * 1909 - Gene Krupa, drummer (+ 1973)
   * 1913 - Lloyd Bridges, actor (+ 1998)
   * 1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (+ 1970)
   * 1918 - Robert Byrd, American politician
   * 1926 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress
   * 1929 - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader (+
     1968)
   * 1937 - Margaret O'Brien, actress
   * 1941 - Captain Beefheart, singer
   * 1942 - Charo, singer, actress
   * 1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, musician (+ 1977)
   * 1957 - Mario Van Peebles, actor, director
   * 1957 - Julian Sands, actor
   * 1965 - Adam Jones, musician of Tool

Deaths

   * 41 - Caligula, Roman Emperor
   * 1964 - Jack Teagarden, musician
   * 1987 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
   * 1993 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter
   * 1994 - Harry Nilsson, musician
   * 1998 - Junior Wells, musician

Holidays and observances

   * Roman Empire - Second day of the Carmentalia in honor of Carmen
   * United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Day

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