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What happened in history on this day: January 15?
On January 15 in ...
- 1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England.
- 1780 - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals.
- 1831 - First US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes first run; Mr and Mrs Pierson of Charleston, South Carolina make first US railroad honeymoon trip.
- 1839 - Texas adopts the silver and gold coins of the USA as their official monetary standard.
- 1841 - Bank of the United States resumes specie payments after 15 months suspension.
- 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana, USA.
- 1847 - First Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in New York City, New York.
- 1861 - General John A. Dix is appointed Treasury Secretary.
- 1863 - First US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal.
- 1865 - Fort Fisher, North Carolina falls to US troops.
- 1870 - Donkey first used as symbol of American Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.
- 1872 - The US Supreme Court rules the Legal Tender Acts are constitutional.
- 1877 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens.
- 1882 - First US ski club forms, in Berlin, New Hampshire.
- 1889 - The Pemberton Medicine Company (later the Coca-Cola Company), is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball, in Triangle Magazine, Massachusetts.
- 1936 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, USA, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
- 1936 - Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates.
- 1938 - Solicitor General Stanley Reed is appointed to the US Supreme Court.
- 1942 - US President Franklin Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during war.
- 1943 - 1,000 workers complete the air conditioning system for the Pentagon.
- 1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. Total cost of construction: $83 million.
- 1944 - US General Dwight Eisenhower begins his command of Operation Overlord.
- 1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC.
- 1951 - US Supreme Court rules "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest.
- 1953 - Sixteen-car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington DC station.
- 1953 - Harry S. Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and TV to deliver his farewell address upon leaving office.
- 1964 - Teamsters negotiate first national labor contract.
- 1967 - At the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first-ever world championship game (later called the Super Bowl) of American football. A crowd of 61,946 people is on hand. For their win, each member of the Packers collect $15,000: this is the largest single-game share in the history of team sports.
- 1968 - Ralph Baer applies for a patent on his invention of the television video game system.
- 1973 - Four Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam.
- 1974 - Expert panel reports 18.5 minute gap in Watergate tape, five separate erasures.
- 1975 - Space Mountain opens at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
- 1976 - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot US President Gerald Ford.
- 1976 - US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit.
- 1978 - Ted Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman.
- 1986 - HBO and Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling their national satellite feeds.
- 1986 - The Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World.
- 1988 - Disney generally releases the live-action feature film Good Morning, Vietnam to theaters. The film cost US$14 million to make.
- 1989 - Cerberal Palsy telethon raises US$22,600,000.
- 1990 - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch.
- 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.
- 2003 - The Supreme Court of the United States allows the extension of copyright terms in the U.S.
- 2004 - In the USA, Carol Moseley Braun drops out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and endorses Howard Dean.
- 2008 - In Michigan, USA, the Rupublican caucuses choose Mitt Romney as candidate for the presidential election on November.
- 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.
- 2009 - A US Airways Airbus 320 Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River off New York City shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, after birds disable both engines. All 155 passengers and crew members are safely rescued.
- 2009 - Bank of America, the largest U.S. bank, posts its first quarterly loss in 17 years, of US$1.79 billion.
- 2009 - The US Mint releases the 2009 Native American dollar to circulation.
Births on January 15
- 1809 - Birth of Cornelia Connelly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus).
- 1813 - Birth of James Marion Sims in South Carolina, USA; surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation).
- 1877 - Birth of Lewis M Terman in Indiana, USA; psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test).
- 1888 - Birth of Joseph Henabery in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; director (Cobra).
- 1899 - Birth of Goodman Aiskowitz AKA Goodman Ace in Kansas City, Missouri, USA; comedian, magazine columnist, radio/television writer (Danny Kaye, Perry Como, The Big Show), radio actor (Easy Aces).
- 1909 - Birth of Elie Siegmeister in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Plough and the Stars).
- 1911 - Birth of Cy Feuer in New York City, New York, USA; Broadway producer (Feuer and Martin - Chorus Line).
- 1913 - Birth of Lloyd Bridges in San Leandro, California, USA; actor (Sea Hunt TV show, Roots TV mini-series, Airplane! movie) (dies 1998).
- 1920 - Birth of John Joseph O'Connor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York.
- 1927 - Birth of Norm Crosby in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; comedian (Young at Heart Comedians).
- 1929 - Birth of Reverand Dr Martin Luther King Junior in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; civil rights leader (Nobel Prize 1964).
- 1931 - Birth of Thomas Hoving in New York City, New York, USA; news correspondent (20/20).
- 1932 - Birth of Louis Woodard Jones in New Rochelle, New York, USA; 4X400m relayer (Olympics-gold-1956).
- 1937 - Birth of Margaret O'Brien in San Diego, California, USA; actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in Saint Louis, Testimony of Two Men, Ironside, Playhouse 90).
- 1947 - Birth of Andrea Martin in Portland, Maine, USA; actress, comedienne (Wag The Dog film, Club Paradise, SCTV TV show, My Big Fat Greek Life, Martin Short Show).
- 1949 - Birth of Howard Allen Twitty in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; PGA golfer (1979 BC Open).
- 1950 - Birth of David Lynn Jones in Bexar, Arkansas, USA; country singer (Bonnie Jean).
- 1951 - Birth of Martha Davis in California, USA; vocalist/guitar (Motels - "Only the Lonely", "Shame").
- 1961 - Birth of Iris DeMent in Paragould, Arkansas, USA; country singer (Our Town).
- 1963 - Birth of Yaro Dachniwsky in Chicago, Illinois, USA; team handball goalie (Olympics-1996).
- 1967 - Birth of Ted N Tryba in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA; PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf).
- 1968 - Birth of Chad Lowe in Dayton, Ohio, USA; actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder, ER, Life Goes On, Melrose Place).
- 1968 - Birth of Laurie Fellner in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA; team handball goalie (Olympics-1992, 1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Adam Burt in Detroit, Michigan, USA; NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers).
- 1969 - Birth of Delino DeShields in Seaford, Delaware, USA; infielder (Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers).
- 1969 - Birth of Marsha Miller in Rochester, New York, USA; WPVA volleyball player (National-17th-1995).
- 1970 - Birth of Dan Landry in San Diego, California, USA; volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-1996).
- 1970 - Birth of Michele Granger in Anaheim, California, USA; softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Regina King in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Brenda Jenkins - 227, 24, Leap of Faith, The Boondocks).
- 1972 - Birth of Ernie Reyes Junior in San Jose, California, USA; actor (Ernie - Sidekicks).
- 1972 - Birth of Kimberly Anne Massaro in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; Miss Missouri-America-5th (1996).
- 1974 - Birth of Aubrey Jo Hiller in Missoula, Montana, USA; Miss Montana-America (1996).
- 1984 - Birth of Megan Quann, American swimmer.
Deaths on January 15
- 1876 - Death of Elizabeth McDardle in Greeneville, Tennessee, USA; spouse of US President Andrew Johnson.
- 1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about age 72.
- 1934 - Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger.
- 1955 - Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies.
- 1966 - Betsy Mitchell, US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at age 25.
- 1978 - Ted Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman.
- 1981 - Emanuel Celler, American politician (Representative-Democrat-New York, 1923-73), dies at age 92.
- 1983 - Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach, Florida, at age 81.
- 1983 - Death of Winstead Sheffield Weaver AKA Doodles in Burbank, California, USA; improv comedian in early TV 1950s, died of suicide gunshot.
- 1987 - Death of Ray Bolger AKA Raymond Wallace Bulcao at age 83 of cancer; singer, dancer, actor (Tin Woodsman - Wizard of Oz, host - Bell Telephone Hour, Grampa - The Partridge Family TV show).
- 1994 - Death of Harry Nilsson in his sleep at age 52; American singer, songwriter ("Without You" (1971), "Everybody's Talkin'", Grammy winner) (born 1941).
- 1996 - Death of Les Baxter at age 73 of heart and kidney problems; orchestra leader/composer (Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young"), singer (the Meltones), music producer ("Ruby", "Unchained Melody", "The Poor People Of Paris"), musical director (The Halls Of Ivy, Bob Hope, Abbott and Costello radio shows). writer ("Whistle" theme - Lassie TV show).
- 1998 - Death of Amos "Junior" Wells, American blues harmonica player, at age 63 (born 1934).
- 2009 - Patrick McGoohan, actor (Danger Man, The Prisoner, Emmy awards for Colombo, Bafta award for The Greatest Man In The World), dies at age 80 in Los Angeles, California.
- 2010 - Death of Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927).
- 2017 - Death of Jimmy Snuka, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (born 1943).
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