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Day of the year
January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar ; 350 days remain until the end of the year (351 in leap years ).
Events
588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II 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 - World War II: Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begun.
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 .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 .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 Sweden'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 fugitive1999 - 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.2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.2007 - Comet McNaught makes perigee after coming close to the sun.
Births
1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404 )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 (d. 1872 )1795 - Alexandr Griboyedov , Russian playwright (d. 1829 )1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French anarchist (d. 1865 )1812 - Peter Christen Asbjørnsen , Norwegian writer (d. 1885 )1816 - Marie LaFarge , French murderer (d. 1852 )1824 - Marie Duplessis , French courtesan, inspiration for La Dame aux Camelias (d. 1847)1841 - Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby , Governor General of Canada (d. 1908 )1842 - Josef Breuer , Austrian psychologist (d. 1925 )1850 - Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (d. 1889 )1850 - Sofia Kovalevskaya , Russian mathematician (d. 1891 )
1855 - Jacques Damala , Greek military officer and actor (d. 1889 )1863 - Wilhelm Marx , Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946 )1866 - Nathan Söderblom , Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (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 , American baseball player (d. 1968 )
1891 - Ray Chapman , American 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 )1897 - Xu Zhimo , Chinese poet (d. 1931 )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 )
1912 - Michel Debré , French politician (d. 1996 )1913 - Lloyd Bridges , American actor (d. 1998 )1913 - Miriam Hyde , Australian composer (d. 2005 )
1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton , English historian (d. 2003 )1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser , President of Egypt (d. 1970 )1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor , American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000 )1920 - Steve Gromek , American baseball player (d. 2002 )
1923 - Lee Teng-hui , Taiwanese politician1923 - Ivor Cutler , Scottish poet (d. 2006 )
1926 - Maria Schell , Swiss actress (d. 2005 )1926 - Florence Buchsbaum , theater director (d. 1996 )
1927 - Phyllis Coates , American actress1929 - Martin Luther King Jr , American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1968 )1930 - Eddie Graham , American professional wrestler (d. 1985 )1933 - Ernest J. Gaines , American author1937 - Margaret O'Brien , American actress1938 - Chuni Goswami , Indian actor1941 - Captain Beefheart , American singer1945 - Vince Foster , American lawyer (d. 1993 )1947 - Andrea Martin , Canadian actress1948 - Ronnie VanZant , American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd ) (d. 1977 )1949 - Luis Alvarado , Puerto Rican baseball player (d. 2001 )1949 - Panos Mihalopoulos , Greek actor
1950 - Marius Trésor , French footballer1951 - Charo , Spanish-born singer1953 - Kent Hovind , American evangelist and Young Earth creationist 1953 - Ta-Tanisha , American actress
1954 - Nikos Sarganis , Greek footballer1955 - Nigel Benson , English author1957 - Marty Lyons , American football player1957 - Mario Van Peebles , American actor
1957 - Patrick Dixon , British entrepreneur
1958 - Boris Tadić , President of Serbia 1959 - Pete Trewavas , English bass guitarist (Marillion )1960 - Aaron Jay Kernis , American composer1960 - Kelly Asbury , American director and actor
1961 - Yves P. Pelletier , Quebec comedian (Rock et Belles Oreilles ), actor and film director1964 - Osmo Tapio Räihälä , Finnish composer1965 - Bernard Hopkins , American boxer1965 - Adam Jones , American musician (Tool )
1965 - James Nesbitt , Northern Irish actor
1965 - Maurizio Fondriest , Italian cyclist
1968 - Chad Lowe , American actor1968 - Iñaki Urdangarín , Spanish royalty
1969 - Delino DeShields , American baseball player1970 - Shane McMahon , American professional wrestler1971 - Teanna Kai , American porn star1971 - Max Beesley , English musician and actor
1971 - Regina King , American actress
1972 - Kobe Tai , American porn star1972 - Claudia Winkleman , English television presenter
1973 - Essam El-Hadary ,Egyptian Football goal keeper1974 - Ray King , American baseball player1975 - Mary Pierce , French tennis player1975 - Edith Bowman , Scottish television and radio presenter
1975 - Greg Strause , American artist
1976 - Corey Chavous , American football player1978 - Franco Pellizotti , Italian cyclist1978 - Eddie Cahill , American actor
1979 - Drew Brees , American football player1980 - Matt Holliday , American baseball player1981 - El Hadji Diouf , Senegalese footballer1981 - Howie Day , American pop singer
1981 - Sean Lamont , Scottish rugby player
1982 - Benjamin Agosto , American skater1982 - Megan Quann , American swimmer
1982 - Philip and Alexander , American-born princes of the Yugoslav Royal Family
1983 - Jermaine Pennant , English footballer1983 - Hugo Viana , Portuguese footballer
1984 - Victor Rasuk , American actor1984 - Megan Jendrick , American professional swimmer
1987 - David Knight , English footballer1987 - Michael Seater , Canadian actor
1987 - Kelly Kelly , American WWE Diva
Deaths
69 - Galba , Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC )570 - Saint Ita , Irish nun (b. 475 )936 - King Rudolph of France 1345 - Martin Zaccaria , Italo-Greek ruler1595 - 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 )1909 - Arnold Janssen SVD missionary (b. 1837 )1915 - Mary Slessor , Scottish missionary (b. 1848 )1919 - Karl Liebknecht , German politician (b. 1871 )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 )1968 - Bill Masterton , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938 )1973 - Ivan Petrovsky , Russian mathematician (b. 1901 )1973 - Coleman Francis , American film director (b. 1919 )
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 )1992 - Dee Murray , English bassist (b. 1946 )1993 - Sammy Cahn , American songwriter (b. 1913 )1994 - Harry Nilsson , American musician (b. 1941 )1996 - Les Baxter , American musician and composer (b. 1922 )1996 - Minnesota Fats , American Billiards player (b. 1913 )
1996 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938 )
1998 - Junior Wells , American musician (b. 1934 )2000 - Željko Ražnatović , aka Arkan, Serbian paramilitary leader (b. 1952 )2000 - Fran Ryan , American actress (b. 1916 )
2000 - Georges-Henri Lévesque , French Canadian Dominican priest and sociologist (b. 1903 )
2001 - Ted Mann , American screenwriter (b. 1916 )2002 - Steve Gromek , American 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 )2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein (b. 1951 ) (executed)2007 - Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court (b. 1945 ) (executed)
2007 - Bo Yibo , Chinese politician (b. 1908 )
2007 - David Vanole , American soccer player (b. 1963 )
2007 - James Hillier , Canadian inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915 )
Holidays and observances
Religious observancess
References
^ Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.
^ a b c Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints . 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.
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