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

    January 15
        Events
        Births
        Deaths
        Holidays and observances

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Events

588 BC - Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.

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).

1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. Her murderer has never been found and it has become a notorious case in the history of American crime.

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.

1977 - The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweeden's history.

1986 - The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.

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.

1993 - Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive

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 free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

2005 - An intense solar flare blasted X rays across the solar system. ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium,aluminum,silicon,iron, and other surface elements on the moon.

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Births

1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)

1412 - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431)

1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)

1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)

1538 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599)

1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)

1671 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)

1674 - Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)

1716 - Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778)

1747 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)

1754 - Richard Martin, Irish founder of the SPCA (d. 1834)

1791 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (1872)

1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829)

1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)

1812 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Norwegian scientist (d. 1885)

1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)

1842 - Josef Breuer, Austrian psychologist (d. 1925)

1850 - Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet (d. 1889)

1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)

1863 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)

1866 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)

1869 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)

1872 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)

1875 - Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929)

1879 - Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961)

1885 - Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915)

1885 - Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician (d. 1973)

1885 - Grover Lowdermilk, baseball player (d. 1968)

1891 - Ray Chapman, baseball player (d. 1920)

1891 - Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet (d. 1938)

1892 - Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950)

1893 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor (d. 1951)

1895 - Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)

1899 - Goodman Ace, American actor (d. 1982)

1901 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)

1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975)

1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist (d. 2003)

1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)

1909 - Gene Krupa, American drummer (d. 1973)

1913 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)

1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (d. 2003)

1917 - Robert Byrd, American politician

1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)

1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)

1920 - Steve Gromek, Baseball player (d. 2002)

1923 - Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician

1923 - Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (d. 2006)

1926 - Maria Schell, Swiss actress (d. 2005)

1926 - Florence Buchsbaum, theater director and musician (d. 1996)

1927 - Phyllis Coates, American actress

1927 - Norm Crosby, American comedian

1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)

1930 - Eddie Graham, wrestler (d. 1985)

1933 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author

1937 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress

1941 - Captain Beefheart, American singer

1945 - Vince Foster, American lawyer (d. 1993)

1947 - Andrea Martin, Canadian actress

1948 - Ronnie VanZant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)

1949 - Luis Alvarado, Baseball player (d. 2001)

1950 - Marius Trésor, French footballer

1951 - Charo, Spanish-born singer

1955 - Nigel Benson, British author

1957 - Julian Sands, English actor

1957 - Mario Van Peebles, American actor

1957 - Patrick Dixon, British entrepreneur

1958 - Boris Tadić, President of Serbia

1959 - Pete Trewavas, British bass guitarist (Marillion)

1960 - Kelly Asbury, American director, writer, actor and author

1964 - Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Finnish composer

1965 - Bernard Hopkins, American Boxer

1965 - Adam Jones, American musician (Tool)

1965 - James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor

1965 - Maurizio Fondriest, Italian cyclist

1968 - Chad Lowe, American actor

1969 - Delino DeShields, baseball player

1970 - Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler

1971 - Regina King, American actress

1972 - Kobe Tai, American porn star

1972 - Claudia Winkleman, British television presenter

1974 - Ray King, baseball player

1975 - Mary Pierce, American tennis player

1975 - Edith Bowman, British television and radio presenter

1975 - Greg Strause, American artist in effects special

1976 - Corey Chavous, American football player

1978 - Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist

1979 - Drew Brees, American football player

1980 - Matt Holliday, American baseball player

1981 - El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer

1981 - Howie Day, American pop singer

1981 - Jermaine Pennant, English footballer

1982 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater

1982 - Megan Quann, American swimmer

1983 - Jermaine Pennant, English footballer

1984 - Victor Rasuk, American actor

1987 - Michael Seater, Canadian actor

1988 - Sonny Moore, American singer (From First To Last)

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Deaths

41 - Caligula, Roman Emperor (b. 12)

570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun

1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)

1672 - John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)

1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)

1781 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (b. 1718)

1790 - John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719)

1804 - Dru Drury, English entomologist (b. 1725)

1915 - Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary (b. 1848)

1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)

1945 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (b. 1865)

1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, (b. 1924)

1955 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (b. 1900)

1964 - Jack Teagarden, American musician (b. 1905)

1967 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)

1973 - Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)

1983 - Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)

1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)

1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)

1990 - Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (b. 1923)

1993 - Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)

1994 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941)

1996 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (b. 1922)

1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938)

1998 - Junior Wells, American musician (b. 1934)

2000 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian leader (b. 1952)

2000 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)

2001 - Ted Mann, American screenwriter (b. 1916)

2002 - Steve Gromek, Baseball player (b. 1920)

2003 - Doris Fisher, American singer and songwriter (b. 1915)

2005 - Deem Bristow, American video game voice actor (b. 1947)

2005 - Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923)

2005 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)

2005 - Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913)

2005 - Dan Lee, Canadian animator (b. 1969)

2005 - Ruth Warrick, American actress (b. 1915)

2006 - Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)

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Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - Second day of the Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta.

Roman Catholic Church - Saint Ita, virgin, died January 15, 570.

Malawi - John Chilembwe Day.

North Korea - Korean Alphabet Day.

United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Day.

Kerala in India - Makaravilakku or Makara Sankranthy at Sabarimala.

Jallikattu in South India.

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