On this day: January 15th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: January 15th

On this day: January 15th

Events On this day: January 15th

• 69 A.D.: Roman Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba was assassinated by the Roman guard in the Roman Forum. He had succeeded Emperor Nero.
• 1535: Henry VIII became Supreme Head of the Church in England as a result of the Act of Supremacy following his break with Rome.
• 1559: Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was crowned as Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.
• 1582: Russia cedes Lithuania and Estonia to Poland.
• 1759: The British Museum opens. Its collection comprises 8 million items and it is one of the most comprehensive collections in the world.
• 1844: The University of Notre Dame receives its charter
• 1870: The first use of a donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party in America appeared in a cartoon in Harper’s Weekly, criticizing former secretary of war Edwin Stanton with the caption, “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion.”
• 1891: Basketball is invented by James Naismith
• 1943: The Pentagon, the worlds largest office building, opens.
• 1970: Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
• 1973: Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The fighting continued anyway until the capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People’s Army on April 30, 1975.
• 1973: Golda Meir became the first Israeli Prime Minister to visit the Pope.
• 1974: “Happy Days” premieres on ABC.
• 1967: In football, the first Superbowl is played
• 1992: Croatia and Slovenia are internationally recognized as independent nations. The Yugoslav federation effectively collapsed as a result.
• 2001: Wikipedia goes online. The online encyclopedia has since become the largest reference work on the Internet.

Birthdays on this day: January 15th

• 1622: Molière (French playwright, actor)
• 1913: Lloyd Bridges (Actor)
• 1918: Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egyptian army officer, politician, 2nd President of Egypt)
• 1929: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Human Rights Activist)
• 1941: Captain Beefheart (American singer-songwriter)
• 1951: Charo (Dancer and Actress)
• 1965: James Nesbitt (Irish actor)
• 1979: Drew Brees (NFL Quarterback)
• 1980: Matt Holliday (MLB Baseball Player)

Deaths On this day: January 15th

• 1919: Rosa Luxemburg (Russian economist, philosopher)
• 1947: Elizabeth Short (American waitress, murder victim)
• 1950: Henry H. Arnold (American general)
• 1988: Seán MacBride (Irish politician, Nobel Prize laureate)
• 1994: Harry Nilsson (American singer-songwriter, musician)

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