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January 15 Events in History - January 15 Birthdays - January 15 Deaths
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January 15, 2006 Stardust space mission returns dust from a comet to earth January 15, 1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again January 15, 1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin January 15, 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station January 15, 1995 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion January 15, 1995 San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship January 15, 1995 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship January 15, 1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 January 15, 1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360 January 15, 1994 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10 January 15, 1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%) January 15, 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist January 15, 1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die January 15, 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV January 15, 1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo January 15, 1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia January 15, 1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man January 15, 1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum January 15, 1991 Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup January 15, 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) January 15, 1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds January 15, 1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins January 15, 1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch January 15, 1990 Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent January 15, 1990 New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106 January 15, 1989 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 176 performances January 15, 1989 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards January 15, 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic January 15, 1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble January 15, 1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $22,600,000 January 15, 1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes January 15, 1988 Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record January 15, 1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) vs. WI on Test debut January 15, 1986 Living Seas opens at Epcot January 15, 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell January 15, 1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president January 15, 1985 Mike Gatting and Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs. India January 15, 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years January 15, 1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak January 15, 1984 Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) January 15, 1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands January 15, 1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard January 15, 1983 Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs. India January 15, 1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours January 15, 1982 "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City January 15, 1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV January 15, 1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame January 15, 1980 Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London January 15, 1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University coeds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman January 15, 1978 Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE and Randy White, Dallas, DT January 15, 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" January 15, 1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament January 15, 1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford January 15, 1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit January 15, 1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. January 15, 1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence January 15, 1975 Space Mountain opens at Disneyland January 15, 1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC January 15, 1974 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle January 15, 1974 Expert panel reports 18 -m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures January 15, 1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court January 15, 1973 Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel January 15, 1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican January 15, 1973 President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam January 15, 1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels January 15, 1971 "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 19 performances January 15, 1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt January 15, 1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" January 15, 1970 Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) January 15, 1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria January 15, 1969 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean January 15, 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union January 15, 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting January 15, 1967 Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB January 15, 1966 AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 January 15, 1966 NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7 January 15, 1965 Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" January 15, 1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms January 15, 1964 Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in New York City January 15, 1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract January 15, 1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) January 15, 1962 Dutch and Indonesian Navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea January 15, 1961 NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31 January 15, 1961 Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open January 15, 1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records January 15, 1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV January 15, 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field January 15, 1956 Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open January 15, 1956 D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia January 15, 1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting January 15, 1956 NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30 January 15, 1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum January 15, 1955 D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad January 15, 1955 U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic January 15, 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station January 15, 1953 GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" January 15, 1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 January 15, 1951 Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest January 15, 1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C. January 15, 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin January 15, 1945 "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 429 performances January 15, 1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets January 15, 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp January 15, 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany January 15, 1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England January 15, 1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die January 15, 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught January 15, 1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed January 15, 1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II January 15, 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II January 15, 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) January 15, 1939 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field January 15, 1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal January 15, 1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in U.S. completed, Toledo, Ohio January 15, 1936 Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants January 15, 1936 Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates January 15, 1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition January 15, 1935 Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in New York City January 15, 1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die January 15, 1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) January 15, 1930 George Headley scores century on debut vs. England (made 176) January 15, 1925 Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP January 15, 1924 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms January 15, 1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier January 15, 1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 January 15, 1919 Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres January 15, 1919 Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland January 15, 1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires January 15, 1919 W Collison and O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in New York City January 15, 1915 Japan claims economic control of China January 15, 1915 Sydney, Kern and Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in New York City January 15, 1908 C Hill and R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust January 15, 1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest January 15, 1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them January 15, 1905 Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater January 15, 1900 SCNEC soccer team forms January 15, 1896 Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael and his Lost Angel," premieres in London January 15, 1895 Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record January 15, 1895 French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar January 15, 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St. Petersburg January 15, 1892 Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass January 15, 1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue January 15, 1882 1st U.S. ski club forms (Berlin NH) January 15, 1877 U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens January 15, 1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly January 15, 1866 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs. Cechach," premieres in Prague January 15, 1865 Ft. Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops January 15, 1863 1st U.S. newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal January 15, 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis January 15, 1857 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW vs. Vic at The Domain January 15, 1851 Gen Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera January 15, 1847 1st Swedish magazine in U.S., Skandinavia, published in New York City January 15, 1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana January 15, 1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego January 15, 1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run January 15, 1831 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston, SC January 15, 1797 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London) January 15, 1785 Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres January 15, 1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals January 15, 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England January 15, 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City January 15, 1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London January 15, 1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam January 15, 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism January 15, 1586 Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army January 15, 1582 Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic January 15, 1562 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens January 15, 1552 France signs secret treaty with German Protestants January 15, 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church January 15, 1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand January 15, 946 Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted January 15, 708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later) |