About January 15
January 15, 2021 is the 15th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 28 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 15
- 588 BC –Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
- 69 –Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
- 1559 –Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
- 1759 –The British Museum opens.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
- 1815 –War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
- 1822 –Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
- 1889 –The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta.
- 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.
- 1919 –Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
- 1943 –The world’s largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
- 1943 –World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
- 1966 –The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d’état.
- 1973 –Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
- 1990 –AT&T’s long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
- 1992 –The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 1993 –Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as “The Beast”, is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive.
- 2001 –Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
- 2005 –ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
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