About January 15
January 15, 2022 is the 15th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 17 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 15
- 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.
- 1782 –Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
- 1815 –War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
- 1870 –A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
- 1892 –James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
- 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.
- 1936 –The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
- 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.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
- 1970 –Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
- 1976 –Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
- 1990 –AT&T’s long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
- 2005 –An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
- 2009 –US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
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