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15 Jan 1346
Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha Holland and Zealand
15 Jan 1552
France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
15 Jan 1582
Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland loses access to Baltic
15 Jan 1586
Battle at Boxum Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army
15 Jan 1752
Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Henry Fielding of plagiarism
15 Jan 1754
Riot at burial of Orangist leader Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
15 Jan 1759
British Museum opens in Montague House London
15 Jan 1777
People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
15 Jan 1780
American Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
15 Jan 1782
Robert Morris Superintendent of Finance recommends to U.S. Congress establishment of decimal coinage and a national mint
15 Jan 1797
1st top hat worn by John Etherington of London
15 Jan 1815
War of 1812 the USS President an American frigate is captured by four British frigates
15 Jan 1822
Greek War of Independence Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
15 Jan 1831
1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
15 Jan 1831
1st US railroad honeymoon trip Mr & Mrs Pierson Charleston South Carolina
15 Jan 1844
University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
15 Jan 1847
1st Swedish magazine in US Skandinavia published in NYC
15 Jan 1851
General Mariano Arista replaces Mexican President Jos Joaqun de Herrera
15 Jan 1857
1st first-class game in Sydney NSW v Vic at The Domain
15 Jan 1863
1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper Boston Morning Journal
15 Jan 1866
Bedrich Smetanas opera Branibori v Cechach premieres in Prague
15 Jan 1876
Die Afrikaanse Patriot the first newspaper in Afrikaans is published in Paarl
15 Jan 1886
Weekly Herald 1st newspaper in Vancouver BC publishes 1st issue
15 Jan 1895
Australian cricket spin bowler Albert Trott takes 8-43 on debut to end Englands 2nd innings at 143 in 3rd Test in Adelaide Australia wins by 382 in 4 days
15 Jan 1896
Henry Arthur Jones Michael & his Lost Angel premieres in London
15 Jan 1907
3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
15 Jan 1907
Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart who invented them
15 Jan 1908
C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Australia
15 Jan 1908
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority first Greek-letter organization established by African American college for women
15 Jan 1910
Constructions ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming
15 Jan 1915
Sydney Kern & Smiths musical Love o Mike premieres in NYC
15 Jan 1919
Two million gallons of molasses flood Boston Massachusetts in the Great Molasses Flood when a storage tank burst drowning 21 and injuring 150
15 Jan 1919
Frank Wedekinds Die letzten Tage der Menschheit premieres
15 Jan 1919
Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes first premier of Poland
15 Jan 1919
Semana Tragica (Tragic Week) Bloodbath in Buenos Aires
15 Jan 1919
W Collison & O Harbachs Up in Mabels Room premieres in NYC
15 Jan 1919
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht two of the most prominent socialists in Germany are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps
15 Jan 1922
Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State after Eamon de Valera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De Valera will lead a military opposition seeking a unified and independent Ireland)
15 Jan 1924
3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
15 Jan 1925
Hans Luther forms German government with DNVP
15 Jan 1927
The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T. Scopes guilty verdict for teaching evolution but the law itself remains in force
15 Jan 1930
Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley scores 157 of 176 on debut on the 4th day of the drawn 1st Test against England in Bridgetown Barbados
15 Jan 1934
While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago Indianapolis Dillinger is shot several times by officer William OMalley but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.
15 Jan 1935
300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
15 Jan 1935
Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty premieres in NYC
15 Jan 1936
1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed Toledo Ohio
15 Jan 1936
Horace Stoneham is elected president of New York Giants MLB franchise succeeds late father Charles remains president for next 40 years presiding over move to SF before selling team in 1976
15 Jan 1937
Spanish Civil War Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends after both forces withdraw
15 Jan 1939
1st NFL All Star Game Wrigley Field Chicago New York Giants beat All America All-Stars 13-10
15 Jan 1939
Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal
15 Jan 1940
German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagles Church)
15 Jan 1942
Chicago Cubs drop plans to install lights at Wrigley Field because of militarys need for materials takes 35 years before lights finally installed at the venerable ballpark
15 Jan 1943
1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught
15 Jan 1943
Worlds largest office building the Pentagon is completed
15 Jan 1943
1000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
15 Jan 1943
World War II The Soviets begin a counter-offensive at Voronezh
15 Jan 1944
European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
15 Jan 1944
Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell 10 die
15 Jan 1945
Make Mine Manhattan opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 429 performances
15 Jan 1945
Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
15 Jan 1945
The Manhattan Projects G-5 Group headed by Physicists Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory
15 Jan 1950
4000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.
15 Jan 1950
Red Wings rookie goalie Terry Sawchuk records his first of 115 career NHL shutouts as Detroit beats the New York Rangers 1-0 at Madison Square Garden
15 Jan 1951
Cloud of Death rolls down Mount Lamington New Guinea kills 3-5000
15 Jan 1951
Supreme Court rule clear & present danger of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
15 Jan 1951
Ilse Koch also known as The Bitch of Buchenwald is sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court
15 Jan 1953
16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington D.C. station
15 Jan 1953
GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for espionage
15 Jan 1953
East Germany purges senior officials accused of spying for imperialistic powers and plotting against the state
15 Jan 1955
1st official act of Princess Beatrice launches tanker Vasum
15 Jan 1955
USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
15 Jan 1956
Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia
15 Jan 1956
KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Jan 1956
6th NFL Pro Bowl Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Eastern Conference beats Western Conference 31-30 MVP Ollie Matson Baltimore Colts RB
15 Jan 1957
Brooklyn Dodgers extend their 5-year lease on Ebbets Field by signing a new 3-year lease with real estate developer Marvin Kratter club moves to Los Angeles the next year
15 Jan 1957
7th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 109-97 at Boston
15 Jan 1958
New York Yankees announce that 140 MLB games to be televised on WPIX TV this season in a deal worth over 1 million dollars
15 Jan 1961
11th NFL Pro Bowl LA Memorial Coliseum Western Conference beats Eastern Conference 35-31 MVPs Johnny Unitas Baltimore Colts QB Sam Huff NY Giants LB
15 Jan 1962
Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea
15 Jan 1962
50th Australian Championships Womens Tennis Margaret Smith beats Jan Lehane ONeill in the final for 3rd straight year 6-0 6-2
15 Jan 1964
MLB executives vote to hold a free agent amateur draft officially known as Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in NYC
15 Jan 1964
Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
15 Jan 1964
San Francisco Giants make champion outfielder Willie Mays the highest-paid player in baseball when they sign him to a new 105000 per season contract
15 Jan 1965
Rock group Who releases first album I Cant Explain
15 Jan 1965
Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Michigan forms
15 Jan 1965
Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic lake Chagan Kazakhstan
15 Jan 1965
One of the biggest trades in NBA history San Francisco Warriors send Wilt Chamberlain to the Philadelphia 76ers for Connie Dierking Lee Shaffer Paul Neumann and cash
15 Jan 1966
5th AFL All Star Game Rice Stadium Houston All-Stars beat Buffalo Bills 30-19 MVPs Joe Namath NY Jets QB Frank Buncom LA Chargers LB
15 Jan 1966
The First Nigerian Republic is overthrown in a military coup detat
15 Jan 1966
Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna lead a coup dtat in Nigeria the Prime Minister of Nigeria and other senior political and military figures are killed
15 Jan 1967
Super Bowl I LA Memorial Coliseum Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 MVP Bart Starr Green Bay QB
15 Jan 1968
KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland TX (IND) begins broadcasting
15 Jan 1968
Minnesota North Stars forward Bill Masterton dies 2 days after suffering a head injury in a game against the Oakland Seals the only death as a result of a game injury in NHL history
15 Jan 1969
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence ONeill announces that an official inquiry will analyse the troubles in Northern Ireland
15 Jan 1970
Nigerian civil war officially ends after 2 12 years of fighting when the Republic of Biafra disbands and joins Nigeria
15 Jan 1970
Riots break out in the Ardoyne area of Belfast
15 Jan 1971
Ari opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 19 performances
15 Jan 1973
4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
15 Jan 1974
24th NBA All-Star Game Seattle Center Coliseum Western Conference beats Eastern Conference 134-123 MVP Bob Lanier Detroit Pistons C
15 Jan 1974
Expert panel reports 18 minute gap in Watergate tape 5 separate erasures
15 Jan 1975
Portugal signs accord for Angolas independence
15 Jan 1976
US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit
15 Jan 1977
Festac 77 the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture begins in Lagos Nigeria
15 Jan 1978
Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman
15 Jan 1978
Super Bowl XII Louisiana Superdome New Orleans Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos 27-10 MVP Harvey Martin Dallas DE & Randy White Dallas DT
15 Jan 1981
Pitcher Bob Gibson is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility after a stellar 17 year career polls 337 votes from Baseball Writers Association of America
15 Jan 1982
Forbidden Broadway bywith Gerard Alessandrini premieres in NYC
15 Jan 1982
Mark Thatcher son of UK prime minister Magaret Thatcher makes his way home after 6 days missing in the Sahara
15 Jan 1983
Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v India
15 Jan 1983
Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
15 Jan 1984
Tony Benn described as a leftwing rebel wins Labours nomination for the by-election in Chesterfield UK
15 Jan 1985
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell
15 Jan 1985
Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200 v India
15 Jan 1985
Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years bur dies before taking office
15 Jan 1985
CBS premiere of TV made teen drug abuse drama Not My Kid based on the previous years book by Beth Polson
15 Jan 1985
Mike Gatting (207) and Graeme Fowler (201) become first pair of England batsmen to complete double centuries in the same innings during 9-wicket 4th cricket Test win against India at Madras
15 Jan 1986
Montreals rookie goaltender Patrick Roy records his first of 66 career NHL shutouts in the Canadiens 4-0 win against the Winnipeg Jets at the Forum
15 Jan 1987
Police officer who mistakenly shot and paralysed an innocent woman in Brixton UK is cleared of all criminal charges
15 Jan 1987
Champion Boston Celtics NBA forward Larry Bird is named Man of the Year by The Sporting News and Athlete of the Year by Associated Press first time one athlete gains both distinctions
15 Jan 1988
NFL analyst Jimmy The Greek Snyder makes several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on CBS NFL Today fired the next day
15 Jan 1988
Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras world Test record
15 Jan 1988
Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut
15 Jan 1988
19-year-old Indian cricket leg-spinner Narenda Hirwani records best bowling figures on debut in Test history captures 16-136 in 255 run 4th Test win v West Indies in Madras Hirwani takes 8 wickets in each innings
15 Jan 1989
Aint Misbehavin closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 performances
15 Jan 1989
10th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins the Golden CableACE for Dear America Letters Home from Vietnam
15 Jan 1990
6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Santa Barbara wins
15 Jan 1990
AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
15 Jan 1990
In a shrewd move Detroit Tigers sign 1st baseman Cecil Fielder who spent previous season in Japan hits 51 homers this MLB season and becomes a premier power hitter for most of the s
15 Jan 1990
Golden State coach Don Nelson becomes 2nd man in NBA history to appear in 1000 games both as a player and coach (joining Lenny Wilkens) as the Warriors lose to the Indiana Pacers 144-105
15 Jan 1990
In a bizarre twist in the NHL Washington Capitals fire coach Brian Murray who had been head coach since 1981 replace him with his brother Terry who had been coaching in the minors
15 Jan 1991
Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win crickets World Series Cup
15 Jan 1991
UNs deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they dont)
15 Jan 1992
Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man
15 Jan 1992
Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isnt entitled to asylum
15 Jan 1993
Soap opera Santa Barbara final show on NBC TV
15 Jan 1993
Top mafia leader Salvatore Toto Riina arrested in Palermo
15 Jan 1943
Worlds largest office building the Pentagon is completed to house the US military
15 Jan 1967
Super Bowl I LA Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles CA Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 MVP Bart Starr Green Bay QB
15 Jan 1972
TV drama Emergency with Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
15 Jan 1974
TV sitcom Happy Days begins an 11 year run on ABC starring Ron Howard Henry Winkler Marion Ross and Ton Bosley
15 Jan 1974
24th NBA All-Star Game Seattle Center Coliseum West beats East 134-123 MVP Bob Lanier Detroit Pistons C
15 Jan 1978
Super Bowl XII Louisiana Superdome New Orleans LA Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos 27-10 MVP Harvey Martin Dallas DE & Randy White Dallas DT
15 Jan 1991
Dean Jones (76) and Mark Taylor (71) lead Australia to 7 wicket win over New Zealand in crickets World Series Cup 2nd Final in Melbourne win series 2-0
15 Jan 1993
7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan killing 2 people
15 Jan 1865
Second Battle of Fort Fisher Union Navy bombards Fort Fisher North Carolina allowing Union troops to capture Confederacys last remaining seaport [1]
15 Jan 1911
1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives at San Francisco
15 Jan 1982
Mark Thatcher son of UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher makes his way home after 6 days missing in the Sahara
15 Jan 1784
The Asiatic Society is founded by William Jones at a meeting in Calcuttas Fort William India
15 Jan 1907
3-element vacuum tube patented by American inventor Lee De Forest
15 Jan 1953
East Germanys first Minister of Foreign Affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for espionage beginning a purge of senior officials accused of spying for imperialistic powers and plotting against the state
15 Jan 1985
Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected President of Brazil in 21 years but dies before taking office
15 Jan 1990
6th Soap Opera Digest Awards Santa Barbara wins
15 Jan 1861
US Civil War Union forces at Fort Pikens on Santa Rosa Island near Pensacola Florida refuse Florida Militia demand to surrender
15 Jan 1882
French explorer Jules Nicholas Crevaux is the first European to discover an Inca City near Sarta north-west Argentina
15 Jan 1908
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority the first for African-American women established by Ethel Hedgeman and 15 other students at Howard University in Washington D.C.
15 Jan 1962
Derveni Papyrus rediscovered - Europes oldest surviving manuscript from c. 340 B.C. commentary on a Orphic poem found in a tomb in Derveni Northern Greece [1]
15 Jan 1974
TV sitcom Happy Days created by Garry Marshall and starring Ron Howard Henry Winkler Marion Ross and Tom Bosley begins an 11 year run on ABC
15 Jan 1981
Police drama Hill Street Blues premieres on NBC-TV
15 Jan 1600
French King Henri IV grants military captain Pierre Chauvin de Tonnetuit a ten-year commission for the fur trade in New France - he goes on to found doomed colony of Tadoussac [1]
15 Jan 1919
Wilson Collison & Otto Harbachs play Up in Mabels Room premieres in NYC
15 Jan 1932
Record snowfall of 2 inches in city of Los Angeles California
15 Jan 1935
Clifford Odets first produced play Waiting for Lefty premieres in NYC
15 Jan 1948
Richard Lewine Hassard Short and Arnold Horwitts musical comedy revue Make Mine Manhattan featuring Broadway debut of Sid Caesar opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC runs for 429 performances
15 Jan 1965
Brunswick Records releases the single I Cant Explain by British rockers The Who in the UK their 1st after changing their band name
15 Jan 1968
KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland Texas (IND) begins broadcasting
15 Jan 1971
Walt Smith and Leon Uris musical Ari based on Uris novel Exodus opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC runs for 19 performances
15 Jan 1975
Space Mountain opens at Disney World in Orlando Florida
15 Jan 1988
Indian cricket wicketkeeper Kiran More stumps 5 West Indian batsman in 4th Test at Madras world Test record
15 Jan 1919
Wilson Collison and Otto Harbachs stage comedy Up in Mabels Room opens at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre NYC runs for 229 performances
15 Jan 1962
Battle of Arafura Sea Dutch destroyers intercept and destroy three Indonesian torpedo boats attempting to land marines on the territory of Netherlands New Guinea as part of the Soviet-Indonesian Operation Trikora
15 Jan 1966
The First Nigerian Republic is overthrown in a military coup detat by Kaduna Nzeogwu and Emmanuel Ifeajuna the Prime Minister of Nigeria and other senior political and military figures are killed
15 Jan 1984
Tony Benn described as a left wing rebel wins Labours nomination for the by-election in Chesterfield England
15 Jan 1993
Top Italian mafia leader Salvatore Toto Riina arrested in Palermo Sicily
15 Jan 1994
Dallas Mavericks drop a 104-87 decision to the San Antonio Spurs at Reunion Arena to set an unwanted NBA record with their 17th consecutive home defeat break mark of 16 set by Orlando in 1990
15 Jan 1994
Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood breaks Dutch record (.47%)
15 Jan 1994
Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist
15 Jan 1995
Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
15 Jan 1995
Western Washington begins using new area code 360
15 Jan 1997
San Francisco head coach George Seifert announces his resignation after 8 highly-successful NFL seasons with the 49ers winningest coach in team history at 108-35 2 Super Bowl titles
15 Jan 1997
Seattles Sam Perkins ties Jeff Hornaceks NBA single-game record by connecting on 8 straight 3-point field goals during Sonics 122-78 win over visiting Toronto Seattle also sets an NBA steals record with 27
15 Jan 1997
Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
15 Jan 1998
Australian schoolboy Ian Thorpe becomes youngest ever male to become a world swimming champion when he wins 400m freestyle aged 15 years 3 months in Perth also wins event at 2001 & 2003 World Championships
15 Jan 1552
France signs a secret treaty with Protestant German princes of the Holy Roman Empire
15 Jan 1582
Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland and loses access to the Baltic Sea
15 Jan 1586
Battle of Boksum Spanish troops under Count Tassis defeat the States Army
15 Jan 1863
First US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper Boston Morning Journal
15 Jan 1882
First US ski club forms in Berlin New Hampshire
15 Jan 1885
Wilson Bentley photographs his first snowflakes with a camera attached to a microscope in Jericho Vermont
15 Jan 1919
Two million gallons of molasses flood Boston Massachusetts in the Great Molasses Flood when a storage tank bursts drowning 21 and injuring 150
15 Jan 1932
Record snowfall of 2 inches falls in Los Angeles California
15 Jan 1935
300 Dutch ice cream vendors protest against Italian competition
15 Jan 1943
The worlds largest office building the Pentagon is completed to house the US military
15 Jan 1955
Dmitri Shostakovichs From Jewish Folk Poetry premieres in Leningrad
15 Jan 1962
Europes oldest surviving manuscript the Derveni Papyrus a commentary on an Orphic poem from c. 340 BC is rediscovered in a tomb in Derveni Northern Greece [1]
15 Jan 1973
Movie critic Gene Shalit joins NBCs The Today Show panel
15 Jan 1975
Pioneering American female comedian Phyllis Diller gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
15 Jan 1990
In a shrewd move Detroit Tigers sign first baseman Cecil Fielder who spent previous season in Japan hits 51 homers this MLB season and becomes a premier power hitter for most of the s
15 Jan 1994
Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL
15 Jan 1997
Controversial Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman Eugene Amos in the groin during a game against Minnesota Timberwolves ultimately pays Amos 200000 settlement and is suspended for 11 games without pay
15 Jan 1998
Future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Dino Ciccarelli finds his 5th NHL club traded from Tampa Bay Lightning to Florida Panthers