What happened on January 15th?
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| 1535 | Henry VIII gives royal decree the Act of Supremacy following his break with Rome Learn more.. |
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| 1559 | Elizabeth crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle. Learn more.. |
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| 1759 | British Museum opens to the public in London Learn more.. |
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| 1842 | St. Mary MacKillop, the first Australian beatified by the Roman Catholic Church, is born in Melbourne Learn more.. |
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| 1870 | The first use of a donkey to symbolise the Democratic Party in America appeared in a cartoon in Harper's Weekly Learn more.. |
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| 1892 | The rules of Basketball are published Learn more.. |
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| 1918 | Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt, dies Learn more.. |
| 1919 | A storage tank collapsed in Boston, sending more than two million gallons of molasses flowing through the city's North End Learn more.. |
| Rosa Luxemburg, cofounder of the German Communist Party, is arrested and murdered in Berlin for fomenting an uprising known as the Spartacus Revolt Learn more.. | |
| 1929 | African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Learn more.. |
| 1938 | King George VI Sound, in the Antarctic, is named by the British Graham Land Expedition Learn more.. |
| The British government forbids payments to Italian firms Learn more.. | |
| 1943 | The Pentagon, the world's largest office building covering 29 acres, is completed at a cost of $83 million Learn more.. |
| 1946 | Allegation that navy department withheld intercepted information foreshadowing Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour is made by Rear Adm. Husband E. Kimmel Learn more.. |
| 1951 | U.S. supreme court declared invalid a New York city ordinance requiring preachers to obtain police permits to hold religious services on city streets Learn more.. |
| 1953 | Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh was promoted to rank of fleet admiral, field marshal and a marshal of the R.A.F. Learn more.. |
| 1957 | The Egyptian government announces the immediate Egyptianization of all British and French banks and insurance companies in Egypt Learn more.. |
| 1966 | South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky pledged a new constitution to replace the military regime with a civilian government Learn more.. |
| 1967 | In the first Super Bowl game, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 35 to 10 Learn more.. |
| 1969 | Communique by the Commonwealth heads of state conference noted the opposition of Asian and African members to Britain's policy on Rhodesia Learn more.. |
| 1971 | Aswan High Dam is formally dedicated by Egyptian President Anwar as-Sadat and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny Learn more.. |
| 1973 | Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam Learn more.. |
| Golda Meir became the first Israeli Prime Minister to visit the Pope. Learn more.. | |
| 1974 | The American television series Happy Days, a nostalgic comedy set during the 1950s and '60s, premiers on ABC Learn more.. |
| 1979 | The U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia vote against a UN Security Council resolution calling for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Cambodia Learn more.. |
| 1982 | The UK prime minister's son, Mark Thatcher, is on his way home after being missing in the Sahara for six days Learn more.. |
| 1986 | A U.S. congressional subcommittee said it had evidence that Ferdinand Marcos had acquired U.S. property worth hundreds of millions of dollars Learn more.. |
| 1991 | War in the Persian Gulf becomes a certainty when Saddam Hussein fails to meet the United Nations deadline for withdrawing his troops from Kuwait Learn more.. |
| 1992 | Croatia and Slovenia are internationally recognised as independent nations and the Yugoslav federation effectively collapsed as a result Learn more.. |
| 1995 | Pope John Paul II celebrates a public mass in Manila attended by an estimated four million people Learn more.. |
| 1997 | The Hebron agreement is signed providing for the redeployment of Israeli troops in that West Bank city Learn more.. |
| ChinaByte, an Internet service sponsored jointly by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and the Chinese newspaper People's Daily, is launched Learn more.. | |
| 2001 | Wikipedia goes online Learn more.. |
| 2009 | Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger III, lands in the Hudson River after the plane flew into a flock of Canada geese shortly after takeoff Learn more.. |
| 2014 | The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, a candlelit Jacobean-style theatre, opens in London next door to Shakespeare's Globe theatre Learn more.. |
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