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January 15

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This date in recent years

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

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only survives for three months before committing suicide.
1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 U.S. 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).
1885 - Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.
1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the first Greek-letter organization by and for Black college women is established.
1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
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 "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1966 - First Military Coup in Nigeria, government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown.
1967 - In the first ever Super Bowl, 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.
1974 - Happy Days premieres on ABC.
1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola.
1976 - Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1986 - The HBO and Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling of their national satellite feeds on Galaxy 1 with the Videocipher II system.
1990 - AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
1991 - The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
1992 - The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 - The first episode of Star Trek: Voyager airs.
1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak were killed by Yugoslav security forces.
2001 - Wikipedia, a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online.