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What Happened on January 15th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific.
2021	A 6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia's Sulawesi island killing at least 105 and injuring 3,369 people.
2020	The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare confirms the first case of COVID-19 in Japan.
2019	Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19.
2019	Theresa May's UK government suffers the biggest government defeat in modern times, when 432 MPs voting against the proposed European Union withdrawal agreement, giving her opponents a majority of 230.
2018	British multinational construction and facilities management services company Carillion went into liquidation
2016	The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
2015	The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets.
2013	A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
2009	US Airways Flight 1549 ditches safely in the Hudson River after the plane collides with birds less than two minutes after take-off. This becomes known as "The Miracle on the Hudson" as all 155 people on board were rescued.
2005	ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
2001	Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
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.
1991	Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own Victoria Cross in its honours system.
1981	Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
1977	Linjeflyg Flight 618 crashes in Kälvesta near Stockholm Bromma Airport in Stockholm, Sweden, killing 22 people.
1976	Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1975	The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
1973	Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1970	Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
1970	Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1969	The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1967	The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1966	The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
1962	The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
1962	Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
1949	Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist government.
1947	The Black Dahlia murder: The dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
1943	World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
1943	The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington County, Virginia.
1937	Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1936	The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1934	The 8.0 Mw  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
1919	Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
1919	Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
1911	Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
1910	Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft).
1908	The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1892	James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1889	The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
1876	The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
1870	A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1867	Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
1865	American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1822	Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
1818	A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals.
1815	War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1782	Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris addresses the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
1777	American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
1759	The British Museum opens to the public.
1582	Truce of Yam-Zapolsky: Russia cedes Livonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1559	Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
1541	King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
69	Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome,

Famous People Born on January 15

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Year	Name
1948	Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (d. 1977)
1933	Ernest J. Gaines, American author and academic (d. 2019)
1945	Princess Michael of Kent
1952	Boris Blank, Swiss singer-songwriter
1944	Jenny Nimmo, English author
1961	Yves Pelletier, Canadian actor and director
1958	Ken Judge, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2016)
1920	Bob Davies, American basketball player and coach (d. 1990)
1462	Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, German noble (d. 1528)
1913	Lloyd Bridges, American actor (d. 1998)

Famous People Deaths On January 15

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on January 15. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2016	Francisco X. Alarcón, American poet and educator (b. 1954)
1896	Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
1988	Seán MacBride, Irish republican activist and politician, Minister for External Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
1959	Regina Margareten, Hungarian businesswoman (b. 1863)
1880	Carl Georg von Wächter, German jurist (b. 1797)
1149	Berengaria of Barcelona, queen consort of Castile (b. 1116)
2002	Michael Anthony Bilandic, American politician, 49th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
1996	Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
1623	Paolo Sarpi, Italian lawyer, historian, and scholar (b. 1552)
1855	Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1780)