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| Birthday January 15, 1622 Molire, French dramatist (baptized) |
| Birthday January 15, 1809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon, French libertarian socialist |
| Birthday January 15, 1850 Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician |
| Birthday January 15, 1866 Nathan Soderblom, Lutheran archbishop and internationalist (Nobel '30) |
| Birthday January 15, 1899 Goodman Ace, radio & TV writer and Actor and columnist and humorist |
| Birthday January 15, 1906 Aristotle Onassis, industrialist |
| Birthday January 15, 1908 Edward Teller, fathered H-bomb |
| Birthday January 15, 1913 Lloyd Bridges, Actor (Sea Hunt and Roots and Airplane) |
| Birthday January 15, 1918 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader |
| Birthday January 15, 1919 S. Kovalevskaya |
| Birthday January 15, 1926 Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode) |
| Birthday January 15, 1926 Maria Schell, in Vienna Austria - Space 1999 |
| Birthday January 15, 1929 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964) |
| Birthday January 15, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. born |
| Birthday January 15, 1936 Ford Foundation is born |
| Birthday January 15, 1937 Margaret O'Brien, in San Diego Calif |
| Birthday January 15, 1946 Janet Lennon, in Culver City |
| Birthday January 15, 1951 Charo, in Spain |
| History January 15, 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church |
| History January 15, 1559 Elizabeth crowned queen of England |
| History January 15, 1759 British Museum opens |
| History January 15, 1777 New Connecticut (Vermont) declares independence |
| History January 15, 1778 Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook |
| History January 15, 1831 The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finished |
| History January 15, 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis |
| History January 15, 1865 Fort Fisher falls |
| History January 15, 1870 First appearance of the Democratic donkey |
| History January 15, 1919 Rebel leaders are murdered in failed coup in Berlin |
| History January 15, 1919 Molasses floods Boston streets |
| History January 15, 1927 Dunbarton Bridge 1st bridge in Bay Area opens |
| History January 15, 1933 The utopian Amana colony embraces capitalism |
| History January 15, 1939 Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to Transbay Terminal |
| History January 15, 1943 World's largest office building Pentagon completed |
| History January 15, 1951 The Witch of Buchenwald is sentenced to prison |
| History January 15, 1953 Dulles calls for liberation of captive peoples |
| History January 15, 1962 Kennedy says U.S. troops are not fighting |
| History January 15, 1967 Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I (NBC & CBS) |
| History January 15, 1967 Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl |
| History January 15, 1968 Soyuz 5 launched |
| History January 15, 1970 Qaddafi becomes premier of Libya |
| History January 15, 1970 Biafra surrenders to Nigeria |
| History January 15, 1972 American Pie hits #1 on the pop charts |
| History January 15, 1973 Nixon suspends military action in North Vietnam |
| History January 15, 1973 Nixon halts military action against North Vietnam |
| History January 15, 1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican |
| History January 15, 1974 Happy Days premiers |
| History January 15, 1975 Space Mountain opens |
| History January 15, 1981 Hill Street Blues premiers |
| History January 15, 1981 Hill Street Blues begins run |
| History January 15, 1986 Living Seas opens |
| History January 15, 1993 Last episode of soap opera Santa Barbara airs |
| History January 15, 2009 Sully Sullenberger performs Miracle on the Hudson |