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WillDekkard
01-15-2010, 04:21 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- January 15th


* 588 BC – Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
* 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
* 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
* 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.
* 1822 – Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
* 1844 – University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
* 1865 – American Civil War – Fort Fisher North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
* 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).
* 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
* 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
* 1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women.
* 1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
* 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.
* 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building is built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
* 1943 – World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
* 1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
* 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
* 1951 – Ilse Koch, "The Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
* 1966 – The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria is overthrown in a military coup d’ιtat.
* 1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. Green Bay Packers defeat 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 Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
* 1974 – Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
* 1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
* 1977 – The Kδlvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
* 1986 – The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
* 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.
* 1993 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
* 1999 – The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
* 2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
* 2005 – An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
* 2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
* 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 – US 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.