January 15

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 15. From 1900 until now. January 15 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Martin Luther King (1929), Margherita Buy (1962) and Mary Pierce (1975). Several movies were released around January 15 over the years, such as The Kid in 1921 directed by Charles Chaplin and Donnie Darko in 2001 directed by Richard Kelly.
But much more happened on January 15 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Kerala in India - Makaravilakku or Makara Sankranthy at Sabarimala.
Jallikattu in South India.
United States - Traditionally, Martin Luther King Day.
North Korea - Korean Alphabet Day.
Malawi - John Chilembwe Day.
Roman Catholic Church - Saint Ides, virgin, died January 15, 570.
Roman Empire - Second day of the Carmentalia in honor of Carmenta.
Wikipedia Day.
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Events

2019 2019 Nairobi attack: Multiple explosions and gunfire are reported after four armed men stormed the Dusit hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The Somalia-based militant group Al-Shabaab claims responsibility. (BBC)
2018 Iraqi insurgency (2017–present), January 2018 Baghdad bombings: A double suicide bombing kills at least 35 people and injures over 90 in Baghdad, Iraq. (BBC)
2017 War in Afghanistan: At least seven people are killed when their vehicle hits a roadside bomb in Nangarhar Province. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
2016 2016 Ouagadougou attacks: Gunmen armed with heavy weapons attack a restaurant called Cappuccino and the Splendid Hotel, taking hostages, in the heart of Burkino Faso's capital, Ouagadougou. At least 20 people are reportedly killed. (BBC) (The Guardian)Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claims responsibility for the attack, which if confirmed would be the first Islamic terrorist attack in the city. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)
2015 2014 Peshawar school massacre: Afghan security officials arrest five men in Kabul in relation to their suspected involvement in the Pakistan school massacre. (ABC News Australia)
2014 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal): At least 26 people are killed in a series of attacks in central Iraq. (BBC)
2013 Syrian civil war:: Aleppo University bombings: 83 people are killed and more than 150 injured in a rocket barrage aimed at Aleppo University, as government forces and rebels continue fighting in the suburbs of Damascus. Both sides accused each other of launching the missiles. (Times of India) (Reuters) (Antiwar.com)
2012 A bomb detonates near a Shia Muslim procession in the Pakistani town of Khanpur, killing at least 18 people and wounding 30. (''The Guardian'')
2011 2010–2011 Tunisian protests:
2010 The longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurs.
2009 Bank of America, the largest U.S. bank, posts its first quarterly loss in 17 years, of US$1.79 billion.
2008 The governments of Singapore, Kuwait, and South Korea invest US$21 billion in American finance companies Citigroup and Merrill Lynch through sovereign-wealth funds.
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.
2006 President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya has declared the ongoing drought a national disaster and has appealed for to feed the hungry. people have been left close to starvation due to the lack of rains over the last three years and corrupt officials who steal food aid. (Reuters)
2005 ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
2004 In the USA, Carol Moseley Braun drops out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and endorses Howard Dean.
2003 The Supreme Court of the United States allows the extension of copyright terms in the U.S.
2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2000 Željko Ražnatović, better known as Arkan, is assassinated in the lobby of Belgrade's elite InterContinental Hotel. He was on Interpol's most wanted list in the 1970s and 1980s for robberies and murders committed in a number of countries across Europe. Until his death, he was the most powerful crime boss in the Balkans.
1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1995 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship.
1994 Hague motorist with 0.51 percent alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (0.47 percent).
1993 7.5 earthquake strikes Northern Japan, 2 die
1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
1991 Sean Lennon's remake of his father's "Give Peace A Chance" is released to coincide with the United Nation's midnight deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. The lyrics were updated to reflect concerns of the 1990's.
1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises US$22,600,000.
1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) versus West Indies on Test debut.
1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected President
1983 Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand versus India.
1982 Forbidden Broadway by / with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City
1981 Hill Street Blues premieres on NBC-TV
1978 Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University coeds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman
1977 Coneheads debut on Saturday Night Live
1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot US President Gerald Ford.
1975 Space Mountain opens at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
1974 Happy Days begins an 11 year run on ABC
1973 Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
1972 Heavyweight Joe Frazier knocks out Terry Daniels.
1971 Ari opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances
1970 Republic Biafra disbands, joins Nigeria.
1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
1966 AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19.
1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Michigan forms
1964 Teamsters negotiate first national labor contract.
1962 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (8-6, 0-6, 6-4, 6-4).
1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records
1958 New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV.
1957 Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new three-year lease for Ebbets Field.
1956 D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum
1954 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya.
1953 Sixteen-car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington DC station.
1951 Ilse Koch, ''The Witch of Buchenwald'', wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC.
1949 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (''The Black Dahlia'') is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
1945 Make Mine Manhattan opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 performances
1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England
1943 World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
1941 John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry describe the workings of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer in print.
1939 Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
1938 Solicitor General Stanley Reed is appointed to the US Supreme Court.
1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition.
1934 8.4 earthquake in India / Nepal, 10,700 die
1933 Political violence causes almost 100 deaths in Spain.
1930 George Headley scores cricket century on debut versus England (made 176).
1929 '' Annales d'histoire économique et sociale'' begins publication in France.
1927 Teddy Wakelam gives the first sports commentary on BBC Radio.
1925 Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP.
1922 Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes first premier.
1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21
1915 Japan claims economic control of China.
1910 Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).
1908 C Hill and R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia.
1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest.
1905 Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater.
1900 SCNEC soccer team forms.
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