Today in History - History - January 15th

1971George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"

1942FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II

1947The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.

1972Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels

1934Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)

1994Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL

1895Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS)

1989Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic

1984Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak

1922Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st Premier

1929Martin Luther King Jr., Atlanta, American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964)

1908Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project), (d. 2003)

1951Charo [Maria Baeza], Spanish-American actress, comedienne and flamenco guitarist (Chico and the Man, Love Boat)

1975Mary Pierce, Montreal Quebec, tennis star (1995 Australian Open)

1930Businesswoman Estée Lauder (23) weds businessman Joseph Lauder

1955Film director Stanley Kubrick (26) weds theatrical designer Ruth Sobotka (29)

1983Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80

1947Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia (b. 1924)