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Events on the 15th of January in history

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15 Jan 2069 Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
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15 Jan 0708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Catholic Pope (dies 20 days later)
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15 Jan 0946 Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
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15 Jan 1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
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15 Jan 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
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15 Jan 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".
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15 Jan 1552 France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
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15 Jan 1559 Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
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15 Jan 1562 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
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15 Jan 1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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15 Jan 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to the Baltic
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15 Jan 1586 Battle at Boxum Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
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15 Jan 1680 French explorer Sieur de la Salle builds Fort Cr
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15 Jan 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism
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15 Jan 1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
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15 Jan 1759 The British Museum opens.
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15 Jan 1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London
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15 Jan 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1777 American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
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15 Jan 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
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15 Jan 1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
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15 Jan 1782 Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
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15 Jan 1785 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
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15 Jan 1797 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
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15 Jan 1815 War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
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15 Jan 1822 Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly.
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15 Jan 1831 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr and Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina
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15 Jan 1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
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15 Jan 1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run; Mr & Mrs Pierson of Charleston SC make 1st US railroad honeymoon trip
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15 Jan 1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
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15 Jan 1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
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15 Jan 1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1851 General Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera
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15 Jan 1857 1st first-class game in Sydney, New South Wales vs Victoria at The Domain
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15 Jan 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
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15 Jan 1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
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15 Jan 1865 American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
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15 Jan 1865 Fort Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
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15 Jan 1866 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs Cechach" premieres in Prague
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15 Jan 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).
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15 Jan 1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
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15 Jan 1876 The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
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15 Jan 1877 US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
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15 Jan 1882 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
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15 Jan 1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
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15 Jan 1889 The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
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15 Jan 1892 James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
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15 Jan 1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Massachusetts
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15 Jan 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
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15 Jan 1895 Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
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15 Jan 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg
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15 Jan 1896 Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel" premieres in London
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15 Jan 1900 SCNEC soccer team forms
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15 Jan 1905 Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater
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15 Jan 1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by William Taggart, who invented them
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15 Jan 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest
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15 Jan 1908 The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
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15 Jan 1908 C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia
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15 Jan 1910 Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
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15 Jan 1915 Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike" premieres in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1915 Japan claims economic control of China
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15 Jan 1919 Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
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15 Jan 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.
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15 Jan 1919 W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room" premieres in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week) Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
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15 Jan 1919 Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" premieres
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15 Jan 1919 Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland
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15 Jan 1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21
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15 Jan 1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier
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15 Jan 1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes the country of Memel
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15 Jan 1924 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
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15 Jan 1925 Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP
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15 Jan 1930 George Headley scores century on debut vs England (made 176)
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15 Jan 1933 A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.
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15 Jan 1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)
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15 Jan 1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
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15 Jan 1935 Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
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15 Jan 1936 The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
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15 Jan 1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants
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15 Jan 1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
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15 Jan 1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
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15 Jan 1937 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
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15 Jan 1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
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15 Jan 1939 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field
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15 Jan 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
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15 Jan 1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WWII
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15 Jan 1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
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15 Jan 1943 The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
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15 Jan 1943 World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
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15 Jan 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
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15 Jan 1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
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15 Jan 1943 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon
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15 Jan 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
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15 Jan 1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England
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15 Jan 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
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15 Jan 1945 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 performances
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15 Jan 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
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15 Jan 1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
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15 Jan 1945 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City NY for 429 performances
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15 Jan 1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (The "Black Dahlia") is found in Los Angeles' Leimert Park.
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15 Jan 1949 Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
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15 Jan 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
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15 Jan 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC
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15 Jan 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
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15 Jan 1951 Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest
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15 Jan 1951 Ilse Koch, "The Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
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15 Jan 1953 GDR Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
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15 Jan 1953 German Democratic Republic Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage"
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15 Jan 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington DC station
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15 Jan 1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
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15 Jan 1955 Dmitri Shostakovich's "From Jewish Folk Poetry" premieres in Leningrad
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15 Jan 1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
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15 Jan 1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Jan 1956 Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
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15 Jan 1956 Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
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15 Jan 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field
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15 Jan 1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV
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15 Jan 1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records
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15 Jan 1961 Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open
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15 Jan 1961 NFL Pro Bowl West beats East 35-31
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15 Jan 1962 The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
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15 Jan 1962 Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
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15 Jan 1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64)
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15 Jan 1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
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15 Jan 1964 Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in New York City NY
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15 Jan 1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Michigan forms
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15 Jan 1965 Rock group The Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"
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15 Jan 1966 The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
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15 Jan 1966 AFL Pro Bowl All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19
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15 Jan 1967 The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
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15 Jan 1967 Super Bowl I Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in Los Angeles; Super Bowl MVP Bart Starr, Green Bay, Quarterback
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15 Jan 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland TX (IND) begins broadcasting
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15 Jan 1969 The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
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15 Jan 1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
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15 Jan 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
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15 Jan 1970 Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland Athletics)
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15 Jan 1970 Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
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15 Jan 1970 Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
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15 Jan 1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
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15 Jan 1971 "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances
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15 Jan 1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
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15 Jan 1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
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15 Jan 1971 "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY for 19 performances
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15 Jan 1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
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15 Jan 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
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15 Jan 1973 Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
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15 Jan 1973 President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
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15 Jan 1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
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15 Jan 1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel
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15 Jan 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
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15 Jan 1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
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15 Jan 1974 Dennis Rader a.k.a. the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
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15 Jan 1974 24th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 134-123 at Seattle
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15 Jan 1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
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15 Jan 1974 Expert panel reports 18
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15 Jan 1975 The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
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15 Jan 1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
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15 Jan 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
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15 Jan 1976 Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
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15 Jan 1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
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15 Jan 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
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15 Jan 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford
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15 Jan 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
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15 Jan 1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
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15 Jan 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
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15 Jan 1978 Super Bowl XII Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, Defensive Tackle
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15 Jan 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
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15 Jan 1980 Pam Gems' "Piaf!" premieres in London
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15 Jan 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
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15 Jan 1981 Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
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15 Jan 1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
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15 Jan 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
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15 Jan 1982 "Forbidden Broadway" by / with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City
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15 Jan 1983 Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs. India
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15 Jan 1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
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15 Jan 1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
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15 Jan 1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
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15 Jan 1984 Sch
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15 Jan 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
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15 Jan 1985 Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India
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15 Jan 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president
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15 Jan 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
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15 Jan 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years
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15 Jan 1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
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15 Jan 1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World
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15 Jan 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
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15 Jan 1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) vs West Indies on Test debut
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15 Jan 1988 Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record
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15 Jan 1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins
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15 Jan 1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
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15 Jan 1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
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15 Jan 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
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15 Jan 1989 10th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 35 awards
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15 Jan 1989 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City NY after 176 performances
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15 Jan 1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
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15 Jan 1990 Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
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15 Jan 1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
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15 Jan 1990 New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 second, beats Bulls, 109-106
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15 Jan 1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
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15 Jan 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.
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15 Jan 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.
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15 Jan 1991 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
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15 Jan 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes - (they don't)
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15 Jan 1992 The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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15 Jan 1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
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15 Jan 1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
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15 Jan 1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
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15 Jan 1992 EC recognizes Slovenian and Croatian independence
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15 Jan 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
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15 Jan 1993 Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as "The Beast", is arrested in Sicily, Italy after three decades as a fugitive.
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15 Jan 1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Tot
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15 Jan 1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
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15 Jan 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
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15 Jan 1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
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15 Jan 1994 15th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
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15 Jan 1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
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15 Jan 1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
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15 Jan 1995 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
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15 Jan 1995 San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
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15 Jan 1995 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
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15 Jan 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
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15 Jan 1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
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15 Jan 1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
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15 Jan 2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
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15 Jan 2005 ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
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15 Jan 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.
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15 Jan 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.
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15 Jan 2013 A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others.
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