About January 15
January 15, 2024 is the 15th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 351 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 26 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.
- 1559 –Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
- 1582 –Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1759 –The British Museum opens.
- 1782 –Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
- 1865 –American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1949 –Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
- 1970 –Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
- 1970 –Nigerian Civil War: After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
- 1974 –Dennis Rader aka the BTK Killer kills his first victims by binding, torturing and murdering Joseph, Joseph II, Josephine and Julie Otero in their house.
- 1977 –The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden’s history.
- 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.
- 1992 –The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 2005 –ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
- 2007 –Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
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