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January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 350 days remaining (351 in leap years ).
Events 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 ).1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball .1919 - The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.1919 - Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland .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 "Bitch 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 .1974 - Happy Days ABC .1975 - Portugal grants independence to Angola .1976 - Gerald Ford 's would be assassin, Sara Jane Moore , is sentenced to life in prison.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 .1999 - The Racak incident : 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak were killed by Yugoslav security forces.2001 - Wikipedia , a Wiki free content encyclopedia, goes online.
Births 1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481 )1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi , Ashikaga shogun (b. 1511 )1622 - Moličre , French playwright (d. 1673 )1747 - John Aikin , English doctor and writer (d. 1822 )1791 - Franz Grillparzer , Austrian lyricist1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French anarchist (d. 1865 )1850 - Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet (d. 1889 )1863 - Wilhelm Marx , German politician, chancellor of the Weimar Republic 1869 - Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (d. 1907 )1870 - Pierre S. DuPont , industrialist1875 - Tom Burke , American runner1879 - Mazo de la Roche , Canadian author (d. 1961 )1891 - Osip Mandelstam , Soviet poet and essayist (d. 1938 )1892 - Rex Ingram , director, writer (d. 1950 )1893 - Ivor Novello , actor, musician (d. 1951 )1899 - Goodman Ace , actor, comedian, writer (d. 1982 )1908 - Edward Teller (d. 2003 )1909 - Gene Krupa , drummer (d. 1973 )1913 - Lloyd Bridges , actor (d. 1998 )1914 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton , historian (d. 2004 )1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser , President of Egypt (d. 1970 )1918 - Joćo Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo , Brazilian politician (d. 1999 ) 1918 - Robert Byrd , American politician1920 - John Cardinal O'Connor , Catholic Cardinal (d. 2000 )1923 - Lee Teng-hui , Taiwanese politician1926 - Maria Schell , Swiss actress1927 - Norm Crosby , comedian1927 - Phyllis Coates , actress 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr , American civil rights leader (d. 1968 )1931 - Patricia Blair , American actress1933 - Ernest J. Gaines , author1937 - Margaret O'Brien , actress1941 - Captain Beefheart , singer1942 - Charo , singer, actress1945 - Vince Foster , White House operative (d. 1993 )1947 - Andrea Martin , Canadian actress1948 - Ronnie VanZant , lead vocal for Lynyrd Skynyrd (d. 1977 )1957 - Mario Van Peebles , actor, director1957 - Julian Sands , actor1965 - Adam Jones , musician of Tool 1968 - Chad Lowe , American actor1971 - Regina King , American actress1981 - El Hadji Diouf , Senegalese football star1982 - Benjamin Agosto , American skater1984 - Megan Quann , U.S. swimmer
Deaths 41 - Caligula , Roman Emperor (b. 12 )1595 - Murat III , Ottoman Emperor 1915 - Mary Slessor , Scottish Christian missionary to West Africa (b. 1848 )1919 - Rosa Luxemburg , politician (b. 1870 )1947 - Elizabeth Short, AKA The Black Dahlia , murder viction1955 - Yves Tanguy , Surrealist painter (b. 1900 )1964 - Jack Teagarden , musician (b. 1905 )1983 - Meyer Lansky , mobster (b. 1902 )1987 - Ray Bolger , actor, singer, dancer (b. 1904 )1990 - Gordon Jackson , film & tv actor; best known as the butler 'Hudson' on Upstairs Downstairs (b. 1923 )1993 - Sammy Cahn , songwriter (b. 1913 )1994 - Harry Nilsson , musician (b. 1941 )1998 - Junior Wells , musician2000 - Zeljko Raznatovic , Serbian leader2001 - Ted Mann , screenwriter2003 - Gladys Kamakakuokalani Ainoa Brandt , Hawaiian educator; fought for native Hawaiian rights2003 - Doris Fisher , singer and songwriter2005 - Ruth Warrick , actress
Holidays and observances January 14 - January 16 - December 15 - February 15 -- listing of all days
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January 15 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1015 words)
January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining (351 in leap years ). January 14 - January 16 - December 15 - February 15 ā listing of all days
Digital TV News: 15th-21st January, 2006 (4057 words)
January 19, 2006 (Silicon Republic) - Testing of free digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Ireland is on course to begin later this year with news that the latest round of tenders to supply equipment for a pilot trial has now closed and the bids are currently being evaluated. January 18, 2006 (Bloomberg) - Brazil is studying whether to adopt European or Japanese digital television standards in the country after studies ruled out the possibility of using U.S. technology, O Estado de S. Paulo newspaper reported. January 16, 2006 (Sci-Tech Today) - In spite of the huge potential, the growth of China's IPTV market is still being restrained by regulatory barriers that have been thwarting the creation of new business models and its rapid take-off.
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