About January 15
January 15, 2025 is the 15th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 14 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 15
- 1582 –Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1936 –The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
- 1943 –World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
- 1947 –The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
- 1966 –The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d’état.
- 1969 –The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
- 1970 –Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
- 1970 –Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
- 1986 –The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
- 1991 –Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
- 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 –An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
- 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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