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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 ).
69 – Otho seizes power in Rome , proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome , but rules for only three months before committing suicide .1362 – A North Sea flood kills many thousands of people.1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-Francois Roberval a commission to settle the Province of New France (Canada ) and provide for the spread of the Roman Catholic Faith .1559 – Queen Elizabeth I of England is officially crowned Queen of England .1582 – Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth .1759 – The British Museum is opened.1777 – American Revolutionary War : New Connecticut (present-day Vermont ) declares its independence.1790 – The Bounty mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian , arrive on Pitcairn Island .1815 – War of 1812 : American frigate USS President , commanded by Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.1822 – Greek War of Independence : Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected President of the Legislative Assembly.1844 – The University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana .1865 – American Civil War : Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to Union forces.1870 – A political cartoon (by Thomas Nast ) for the first time uses a donkey as a symbol of the Democratic Party in the United States .1876 – The first newspaper in Afrikaans , De Afrikaans Patriot, is published.1885 – American Wilson Bentley takes the first photographs of snowflakes .1889 – The Coca-Cola Company , then-known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta , Georgia , US .1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball .1910 – Building work begins ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming , United States , at 99 meters.1919 – German socialist activists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are tortured and executed by the Freikorps .1919 – The Boston Molasses Disaster , killing 21 and injuring 150 others.1933 – A 12-year-old girl is said to have experienced the first Marian Apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium .1934 – A magnitude 8.1 earthquake on the India -Nepal border kills around 10,700 people.1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass , built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company is completed in Toledo , Ohio , United States .1937 – Spanish Civil War : Nationalists and Republicans both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.1943 – The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia .1943 – World War II : The Soviet counter-offensive in Voronezh begins.1944 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in San Juan, Argentina , kills around 5,000 people.1949 – Chinese Civil War : The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the National Government .1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe 's oldest-surviving manuscript dating back to 340 BC, is found in Northern Greece .1966 – Nigeria 's First Republic , led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in military coup d'état .1967 – The first-ever Super Bowl takes place in Los Angeles , as the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.1969 – The Soyuz 5 spacecraft is launched by the Soviet Union .1970 – Nigerian Civil War : Biafra surrenders.1970 – Muammar al-Gaddafi is proclaimed Premier of Libya .1971 – The Aswan Dam in Egypt is officially opened.1973 – Vietnam War : Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam , citing the progress of peace negotiations.1975 – The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence .1976 – Sara Jane Moore is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to kill President Gerald Ford .1981 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish Solidarity Trade Union , led by Lech Walesa .1991 – The United Nations deadline for Iraq 's withdrawal from Kuwait expires.1992 – The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia .1993 – Mafia boss Salvatore Riina is arrested by police.1996 – Lesotho 's King, Moshoeshoe II dies in a car crash. He is succeeded by his son, Letsie III .2001 – Wikipedia goes online.2004 – The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yoon Young-kwan resigns following his support for American policy towards North Korea .2005 – The European Space Agency 's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium , aluminium , silicon , iron and other elements on the Moon .2006 – Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile . She becomes Chile's first female president when she takes office on March 11 .2009 – Chesley Sullenberger , pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 , steers the plane to a safe emergency landing on the Hudson River after experiencing trouble shortly after take off from New York's LaGuardia Airport .2015 – Two suspected Jihadists are killed in an anti-terror raid in Verviers , Belgium .2018 – British newspaper The Guardian changes to a tabloid format.2018 – Mihai Tudose announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Romania after losing support within his own party.2018 – A bomb attack in Baghdad kills 38 people.2019 – A terrorist attack on a hotel complex in Nairobi , Kenya , results in 21 people being killed.2019 – British Prime Minister Theresa May loses a parliamentary vote in the House of Commons by the biggest margin ever for a sitting Prime Minister, losing a vote on her proposed Brexit deal by 432 votes to 202.2024 – The Iranian -backed Houthi movement launch an attack on the Marshall Islands -flagged, United States -owned and operated bulk carrier Gibraltar Eagle .[1] 5 BC – Emperor Guang Wu of Han in China (d. 57)1292 – Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (d. 1330 )1342 – Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404 )1432 – Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1481 )1481 – Ashikaga Yoshizuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1511 )1538 – Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599 )1622 – Molière , French writer and philosopher (d. 1673 )1716 – Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778 )1780 – Cornelius P. Comegus, American politician , Governor of Delaware (d. 1850 )1785 – William Prout, English chemist , physician and theologian (d. 1850 )1791 – Franz Grillparzer , Austrian writer (d. 1872 )1795 – Alexander Griboyedov, Russian playwright (d. 1829 )1803 – Marjorie Fleming, Scottish poet (d. 1811 )1807 – Hermann Burmeister, German naturalist (d. 1892 )1809 – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French anarchist (d. 1865 )1815 – William Bickerton, English-American religious leader (d. 1905 )1824 – Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847 )1841 – Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby , Governor General of Canada (d. 1908 )1842 – Mary MacKillop , Australian saint (d. 1909 )1842 – Paul Lafargue, French journalist , literary critic and activist (d. 1911 )1842 – Josef Breuer, Austrian physician (d. 1925 )1844 – Cole Younger, American outlaw (d. 1916 )1850 – Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (d. 1889 )1850 – Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin (d. 1943 )1850 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891 )1858 – Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (d. 1899 )1859 – Archibald Peake, Australian politician , Premier of South Australia (d. 1920 )1859 – Nathaniel Lord Britton, American geologist and botanist (d. 1934 )1862 – Loie Fuller , American dancer (d. 1928 )1863 – Wilhelm Marx , Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946 )1866 – Nathan Söderblom , Swedish archbishop (d. 1931 )1867 – Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d. 1900 )1869 – Ruby Laffoon, American politician , 43rd Governor of Kentucky (d. 1941 )1869 – Stanislaw Wyspianski , Polish dramatist (d. 1907 )1870 – Pierre S. du Pont, American industrialist (d. 1954 )1875 – Thomas Burke, American athlete (d. 1929 )1878 – Johanna Mueller-Hermann, Austrian composer and educator (d. 1941 )1882 – Princess Margaret of Connaught (d. 1920 )1885 – Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer (d. 1915 )1891 – Osip Mandelstam , Russian poet (d. 1938 )1892 – Rex Ingram, Irish director (d. 1950 )1893 – Ivor Novello, Welsh entertainer and composer (d. 1951 )1893 – George, Crown Prince of Saxony (d. 1943 )1894 – Ecaterina Teodoriu, Romanian World War I heroine (d. 1917 )1895 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen , Finnish chemist (d. 1973 )1897 – Xu Zhimo , Chinese poet (d. 1931 )1898 – Erik Byléhn, Swedish runner (d. 1986 )1900 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (d. 1991 )1900 – Stanley Lucas , British supercentenarian (d. 2010 )1902 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia (d. 1969 )1903 – Paul A. Dever, American politician , 58th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958 )1906 – Aristotle Onassis , Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975 )1908 – Edward Teller , Hungarian physicist (d. 2003 )1909 – Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939 )1909 – Gene Krupa, American automobile designer (d. 1973 )1912 – Michel Debré , Prime Minister of France (d. 1996 )1913 – Lloyd Bridges , American actor (d. 1998 )1913 – Alexander Marinesko, German submarine captain (d. 1963 )1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, British historian (d. 2003 )1916 – Maurice Bavaud, Swiss activist (d. 1941 )1918 – Gamal Abdel Nasser , President of Egypt (d. 1970 )1918 – Joao Figueiredo, President of Brazil (d. 1999 )1918 – David George Kendall, English statistician and mathematician (d. 2007 )1918 – Vicente de la Mata , Argentine footballer (d. 1980 )1919 – George Cadle Price , 1st Prime Minister of Belize (d. 2011 )1919 – Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer (d. 2012 )1920 – Bob Davies, American basketball player (d. 1990 )1920 – Pamela Cundell , English actress (d. 2015 )1920 – John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal and Archbishop of New York City (d. 2000 )1921 – Babasaheb Bhasale, Indian politician , 8th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (d. 2007 )1923 – Lee Twng-hui, 4th President of the Republic of China 1924 – George Lowe , New Zealand mountaineer (d. 2013 )1924 – Georg Ratzinger , brother of Pope Benedict XVI 1924 – Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst (d. 2013 )1925 – Ernst Benda, German politician (d. 2009 )1926 – Maria Schell , Austrian actress (d. 2005 )1926 – Karl-Alfred Jacobsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2015 )1927 – Phyllis Coates , American actress 1928 – M. V. Devan , Indian artist and writer (d. 2014 )1928 – W. R. Mitchell , English writer (d. 2015 )1929 – Martin Luther King Jr. , American civil rights activist (d. 1968 )1929 – Earl Hooker , American blues guitarist (d. 1970 )1934 – V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician , 13th Governor of Karnataka (d. 2013 )1939 – Per Ahlmark , Swedish journalist and politician 1940 – Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist and academic1941 – Captain Beefheart , American singer (d. 2010 )1943 – Ashraf Aman, Pakistani mountaineer 1943 – Margaret Beckett , British politician1944 – Jenny Nimmo, British writer1945 – Princess Michael of Kent1945 – David Pleat, English footballer 1945 – Maria Antonia Iglesias, Spanish writer (d. 2014 )1945 – Ko Chun-hsiung , Taiwanese actor , director and politician (d. 2015 )1947 – Martin Chalfie , American biologist and Nobel Prize winner1947 – Pete Waterman, English songwriter and producer 1948 – Ronnie Van Zant , American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd ) (d. 1977 )1950 – Bebeto de Freitas , Brazilian volleyball coach and football manager (d. 2018 )1951 – Catherine Trautmann, French politician 1954 – Nikos Sarganis, Greek footballer 1955 – JoAnne Good, British radio presenter, television presenter, broadcast journalist and actress1955 – Khalid Islambouli, Egyptian assassin (d. 1982 )1956 – Mayawati , Indian politician , 23rd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 1957 – Mario Van Peebles , American actor1957 – David Ige , American politician , 8th Governor of Hawaii 1958 – Ken Judge , Australian rules footballer (d. 2016 )1958 – Boris Tadic, former President of Serbia 1959 – Pavle Kozjek, Slovenian climber (d. 2008 )1962 – Margherita Buy, Italian actress 1962 – Ken Macintosh, Scottish politician1964 – Jackie Baillie, Scottish politician1965 – Bernard Hopkins, American boxer1965 – James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor1968 – Chad Lorre, American director , actor and producer 1968 – Iñaki Urdangarin, Spanish former handball player and royal1970 – Shane McMahon , American professional wrestler , son of WWE President Vince McMahon 1972 – Claudia Winkleman , English television presenter1973 – Essam El-Hadary , Egyptian footballer 1974 – Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter1975 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player1977 – Giorgia Meloni , Italian politician 1978 – Eddie Cahill, American actor1978 – Ryan Sidebottom, English cricketer 1979 – Martin Petrov , Bulgarian footballer1979 – Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer , actor and Tai-chi champion1980 – Matt Holliday, American baseball player1981 – El Hadji Diouf , Senegalese footballer1981 – Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby player1981 – Pitbull , American rapper 1982 – Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia1982 – Prince Philip of Yugoslavia1983 – Matic Kralj, Slovenian ice hockey player1983 – Hugo Viana , Portuguese footballer 1983 – Jermaine Pennant , English footballer 1985 – René Adler , German footballer and goalkeeper 1985 – Clara Lee, Swiss-born British-South Korean actress 1985 – Enrico Patrizio, Italian rugby player1986 – Jessie Schram, American actress 1987 – Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian runner1987 – Kelly Kelly , American professional wrestler 1987 – Michael Seater , Canadian actor , director , producer and screenwriter 1988 – Jun. K, South Korean singer 1988 – Skrillex , American musician and producer 1989 – Ryan Corr, Australian actor 1990 – Paul Blake, English Paralympic athlete1996 – Dove Cameron , American actress and singer 41 – Caligula , Roman Emperor (b. 12 )69 – Galba , Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC )570 – Saint Ides, Irish nun (b. ca. 475) 936 – King Rudolph of France 1519 – Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (b. 1475 )1595 – Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546 )1623 – Fra Paolo Sarpi, Italian patriot, scholar, scientist and church reformer (b. 1552 )1683 – Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609 )1775 – Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1700 )1781 – Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain, Queen Regent of Portugal (b. 1718 )1815 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765 )1876 – Eliza Johnson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1810 )1893 – Fanny Kemble, British actress and writer (b. 1809 )1896 – Mathew Brady , American photographer (b. 1822 )1899 – Serafino Dubois, Italian chess player (b. 1817 )1915 – Mary Slessor, Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848 )1916 – Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright (b. 1850 )1919 – Rosa Luxemburg , German politician and activist (b. 1870 )1919 – Karl Liebknecht , German politician and activist (b. 1871 )1926 – Enrico Toselli, Italian composer (b. 1883 )1927 – David R. Francis, American politician , Governor of Missouri (b. 1850 )1936 – Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866 )1947 – Elizabeth Short, AKA The Black Dahlia, murder victim (b. 1924 )1948 – Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat (b. 1862 )1952 – Ned Hanlon, Australian politician , Premier of Queensland (b. 1866 )1955 – Yves Tanguy, French Surrealist painter (b. 1900 )1964 – Jack Teagarden, musician (b. 1905 )1968 – William Masterton, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1938 )1983 – Meyer Lansky , mobster (b. 1902 )1987 – Ray Bolger , actor, singer, dancer (b. 1904 )1988 – Sean MacBride, Irish politician (b. 1904 )1990 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish movie and TV actor; best known as the butler "Hudson" on Upstairs Downstairs (b. 1923 )1993 – Sammy Cahn , songwriter (b. 1913 )1994 – Harry Nilsson , American musician (b. 1941 )1994 – Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist (b. 1921 )1996 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938 )1998 – Gulzarilal Nanda , Indian politician (b. 1898 )2000 – Zeljko Raznatovic, Serbian leader (b. 1952 )2003 – Doris Fisher, singer and songwriter (b. 1915 )2005 – Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano (b. 1923 )2005 – Walter Ernsting, German science fiction writer (Perry Rhodan 1920 )2005 – Elizabeth Janeway, United States feminist writer (b. 1913 )2005 – Dan Lee, animator for movie Finding Nemo (b. 1969 )2005 – Ruth Warrick, United States actress best known for Citizen Kane All My Children 1915 )2006 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah , Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926 )2007 – James Hiller, Canadian inventor (b. 1915 )2008 – Brad Renfro , American actor (b. 1982 )2009 – Said Seyam, Palestinian military commander (b. 1959 )2010 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg , American biochemist , won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927 )2011 – Nat Lofthouse , English footballer (b. 1925 )2011 – Susannah York , English actress (b. 1939 )2012 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne , former Prime Minister of Spanish Galicia (b. 1922 )2012 – Ed Derwinski , American politician (b. 1926 )2013 – Nagisa Oshima , Japanese movie director and screenwriter (b. 1932 )2013 – Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, French philosopher, writer, editor and psychoanalyst (b. 1924 )2014 – Roger Lloyd-Pack , English actor (b. 1944 )2014 – John Dobson , American astronomer (b. 1915 )2015 – Ervin Drake , American songwriter (b. 1919 )2015 – Kim Fowley , American record producer (b. 1939 )2015 – Val Holten , Australian cricketer (b. 1927 )2015 – Ethel Lang , British supercentenarian (b. 1900 )2015 – Jean-Claude Baker , French-American restaurateur (b. 1943 )2015 – Joseph Mukasa Zuza , Malawian bishop (b. 1955 )2015 – Rameshwar Thakur, Indian politician (b. 1927 )2016 – Ken Judge , Australian rules footballer (b. 1958 )2016 – Dan Haggerty , American actor (b. 1941 )2016 – Oleksandr Shevchenko , Ukrainian scientist , jurist and politician (b. 1937 )2016 – P. J. Mara , Irish public affairs consultant and senator (b. 1942 )2016 – Noreen Corcoran , American actress (b. 1943 )2016 – Aristide von Bienefeldt , Dutch writer (b. 1959 )2017 – Ciel Bergman , American painter (b. 1938 )2017 – Babette Cole , English children's writer (b. 1949 )2017 – Richard Divall , Australian conductor and musicologist (b. 1945 )2017 – Aleksandr Ezhevsky , Russian engineer and statesman (b. 1915 )2017 – Dermot Gallagher , Irish civil servant and diplomat (b. 1944 )2017 – Han Peixin , Chinese politician (b. 1921 )2017 – Kozo Kinomoto , Japanese footballer (b. 1949 )2017 – Vicki Lansky , American writer and publisher (b. 1942 )2017 – Eddie Long , American pastor (b. 1953 )2017 – David Poythress , American military officer and politician (b. 1943 )2017 – Jimmy Snuka , Fijian-American professional wrestler (b. 1943 )2017 – Greg Trooper , American singer-songwriter (b. 1956 )2018 – Viktor Anpilov , Russian political activist and trade unionist (b. 1945 )2018 – Joe Frank , American radio personality (b. 1938 )2018 – Dolores O'Riordan , Irish singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1971 )2018 – John Spellman , American politician, former Governor of Washington (b. 1926 )2018 – Edwin Hawkins , American musician (b. 1943 )2018 – Peter Wyngarde , British actor (b. 1927 )2018 – Carl Emil Christiansen , Danish footballer (b. 1937 )2018 – Romana Acosta Bañuelos , American public servant (b. 1925 )2018 – Dick King , American politician (b. 1934 )2018 – Mathilde Krim , Italian-American HIV researcher (b. 1926 )2018 – Karl-Heinz Kunde , German racing cyclist (b. 1938 )2018 – Roderick Rijnders , Dutch rower (b. 1941 )2019 – Carol Channing , American actress and singer (b. 1921 )
