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January 15 Events in History - January 15 Birthdays - January 15 Deaths
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)



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