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Information about 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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