January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of the year (351 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY (Third Monday)
1559 ― Two months after the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I of England, Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is crowned Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in London.
1780 ― American Continental Congress establishes the court of appeals.
1844 ― The University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana.
1870 ― The Donkey is first used as the symbol of the U.S. Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.
1889 ― The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia,
1907 ― The three-element vacuum tube is patented by Dr. Lee De Forest.
1927 ― The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T. Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself, banning the teaching of evolution in pubic schools, remains in force.
1934 ― While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, bank robber and murder, John Dillinger, is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.
1942 ― President Franklin Roosevelt asks the commissioner to continue baseball during WW II.
1943 ― World's largest office building, the Pentagon, is completed in Washington, DC.
1945 ― Red Army frees the Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp.
1945 - The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory.
1947 ― The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1951 ―The U.S. Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest.
1951 ― Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Ilse Koch was nicknamed the "Witch of Buchenwald" for her extraordinary sadism.
1965 ― A Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic Lake Chagan, Kazakhstan.
1971 ― The Aswan Dam High Dam officially opens in Egypt.
1973 ― President Richard Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 ― An expert panel reports an 18½ minute gap in the Watergate tape, with five separate erasures.
1985 ― Tancredo de Almeida Neves becomes the first elected president of Brazil in 21 years.
1992 ― Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia.
1997 ― The U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian Mir Space Station.
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.
2009 ― U.S. Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1622 – Molière, French actor and playwright (d. 1673)
1909 – Jean Bugatti, German-French engineer (d. 1939)
1920 – John O'Connor, American cardinal (d. 2000)
1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY (Third Monday)
588 BC ― Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
1559 ― Two months after the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I of England, Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is crowned Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in London.
1780 ― American Continental Congress establishes the court of appeals.
1844 ― The University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana.
1870 ― The Donkey is first used as the symbol of the U.S. Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.
1889 ― The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia,
1907 ― The three-element vacuum tube is patented by Dr. Lee De Forest.
1927 ― The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T. Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself, banning the teaching of evolution in pubic schools, remains in force.
1934 ― While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, bank robber and murder, John Dillinger, is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.
1942 ― President Franklin Roosevelt asks the commissioner to continue baseball during WW II.
1943 ― World's largest office building, the Pentagon, is completed in Washington, DC.
1945 ― Red Army frees the Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp.
1945 - The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory.
1947 ― The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1951 ―The U.S. Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest.
1951 ― Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Ilse Koch was nicknamed the "Witch of Buchenwald" for her extraordinary sadism.
1965 ― A Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic Lake Chagan, Kazakhstan.
1967 ― At the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first-ever World Championship Game of American football (Super Bowl I).
1971 ― The Aswan Dam High Dam officially opens in Egypt.
1973 ― President Richard Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam.
1974 ― An expert panel reports an 18½ minute gap in the Watergate tape, with five separate erasures.
1985 ― Tancredo de Almeida Neves becomes the first elected president of Brazil in 21 years.
1992 ― Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia.
1997 ― The U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian Mir Space Station.
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.
2009 ― U.S. Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1622 – Molière, French actor and playwright (d. 1673)
1909 – Jean Bugatti, German-French engineer (d. 1939)
1920 – John O'Connor, American cardinal (d. 2000)
1929 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
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