Notable Historical Events on January 15th
January 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
588 |
Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC. |
BC AD | |
69 |
Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide. |
708 |
Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later) |
946 |
Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded and ousted |
1346 |
Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand |
1535 |
Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England |
1552 |
France signs secret treaty with German Protestants |
1562 |
3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens |
1582 |
Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic |
1586 |
Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army |
1752 |
Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism |
1754 |
Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam |
1759 |
British Museum opens in Montague House, London |
1762 |
Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC |
1777 |
People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England |
1780 |
Continental Congress establishes court of appeals |
1785 |
Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres |
1797 |
1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London) |
1822 |
Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly. |
1831 |
1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run |
1831 |
1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, SC |
1833 |
HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego |
1844 |
University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana |
1847 |
1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC |
1851 |
Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera |
1857 |
1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The Domain |
1861 |
Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis |
1863 |
1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal |
1865 |
Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops |
1866 |
Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v Cechach," premieres in Prague |
1870 |
Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly |
1877 |
US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens |
1882 |
1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH) |
1886 |
Weekly Herald, 1st newspaper in Vancouver, BC, publishes 1st issue |
1889 |
The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. |
1892 |
Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass |
1895 |
Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record |
1895 |
French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar |
1895 |
Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg (1/27 NS) |
1896 |
Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London |
1900 |
SCNEC soccer team forms |
1905 |
Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater |
1907 |
3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest |
1907 |
Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them |
1908 |
C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust |
1915 |
Japan claims economic control of China |
1915 |
Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in NYC |
1919 |
2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 |
1919 |
Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres |
1919 |
Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland |
1919 |
Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires |
1919 |
W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in NYC |
1919 |
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. |
1922 |
Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st Premier |
1924 |
3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
1925 |
Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP |
1927 |
The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself remains in force |
1930 |
George Headley scores century on debut v England (made 176) |
1934 |
8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die |
1934 |
Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) |
1934 |
While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest. |
1935 |
300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition |
1935 |
Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC |
1936 |
1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio |
1936 |
Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants |
1936 |
Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates |
1939 |
1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field |
1939 |
Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal |
1940 |
German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) |
1942 |
Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II |
1942 |
FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II |
1943 |
1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught |
1943 |
World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed |
1943 |
1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon |
1944 |
European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany |
1944 |
General Eisenhower arrives in England |
1944 |
Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die |
1945 |
"Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 perfs |
1945 |
Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg of sugar beets |
1945 |
Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp |
1945 |
The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory |
1947 |
The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. |
1949 |
Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin |
1950 |
4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC |
1951 |
"Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 |
1951 |
Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest |
1953 |
16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station |
1953 |
GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" |
1955 |
1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum |
1955 |
D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad |
1955 |
USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic |
1956 |
Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
1956 |
D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia |
1956 |
KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30 |
1957 |
Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field |
1958 |
NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV |
1961 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31 |
1961 |
Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open |
1961 |
Supremes signed with Motown Records |
1962 |
50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) |
1962 |
Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea |
1964 |
Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in NYC |
1964 |
Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract |
1965 |
Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" |
1965 |
Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms |
1965 |
Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic lake Chagan, Kazakhstan |
1966 |
AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 |
1966 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7 |
1967 |
Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB |
1968 |
KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
1969 |
Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union |
1969 |
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill announce the setting up of an official inquiry into the disturbances in Derry and elsewhere |
1970 |
Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) |
1970 |
Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria |
1970 |
Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast |
1971 |
"Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances |
1971 |
Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt |
1971 |
George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" |
1972 |
Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels |
1973 |
4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court |
1973 |
Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel |
1973 |
Pope Paul VI holds an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican |
1973 |
Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam |
1974 |
"Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC |
1974 |
24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle |
1974 |
Expert panel reports 18½ minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures |
1975 |
Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence |
1975 |
Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) |
1976 |
Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford |
1976 |
US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit |
1976 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1977 |
Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" |
1977 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
1978 |
Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman |
1978 |
Super Bowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White, Dallas, DT |
1980 |
Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London |
1981 |
"Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV |
1981 |
Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
1982 |
"Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in NYC |
1983 |
Dutch political party DS'70 disbands |
1983 |
Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard |
1983 |
Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India |
1983 |
Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours |
1984 |
Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak |
1984 |
Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) |
1985 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell |
1985 |
Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president |
1985 |
Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v India |
1985 |
Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years |
1986 |
Living Seas opens (Disneyland) |
1988 |
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes |
1988 |
Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record |
1988 |
Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut |
1989 |
"Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs |
1989 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
1989 |
Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble |
1989 |
Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000 |
1989 |
10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins the Golden CableACE for "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam" |
1990 |
42 year old George Foreman KOs Gerry Cooney in 2 rounds in Atlantic City |
1990 |
6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Santa Barbara wins |
1990 |
AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch |
1990 |
Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent |
1990 |
NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106 |
1991 |
Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
1991 |
UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) |
1992 |
Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia |
1992 |
Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man |
1992 |
Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum |
1993 |
7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die |
1993 |
Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV |
1993 |
Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo |
1994 |
15th ACE Cable Awards: Michael Fuchs wins the Golden CableACE for outstanding achievements in advancing the development of cable programming |
1994 |
Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%) |
1994 |
Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist |
1994 |
Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL |
1995 |
Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion |
1995 |
San Diego Chargers beat Pitt Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship |
1995 |
SF 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship |
1995 |
Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 |
1995 |
Western Washington begins using new area code 360 |
1997 |
Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin |
1997 |
Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station |
1998 |
NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again |
1998 |
Dino Ciccarelli is traded for the fourth time, from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the Florida Panthers |
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 |
ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon. |
2005 |
An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system. |
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. |
2011 |
Wikipedia the free internet encyclopedia turns 10 years old |
2013 |
83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack on Aleppo University, Syria |
2013 |
19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are injured in a train accident in Giza |
2016 |
ISIS claims Jakarta bomb attack and shootout |
2017 |
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to End Its 146-Year Run |
2017 |
Prison Riot in Brazil Leaves at Least 10 Inmates Dead |
2017 |
UConn Women Win Their 91st Straight and Rewrite History Again |
2017 |
Lady Liberty to be black woman on new US $100 coin |
2018 |
US moves ships, bombers toward Korea ahead of Olympics |
2018 |
Double suicide bombing in Baghdad kills at least 16 people |
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