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Jan 15, 1967: Packers beat Chiefs in first Super Bowl
On January 15, 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) smash the American Football League (AFL)’s Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, in the first-ever AFL-NFL World Championship, later known as Super Bowl I, at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.
Founded in 1960 as a rival to the NFL, the AFL was still finding its way in 1967, and the Packers had been heavily favored to win the game. As 60 million people tuned in to watch the action unfold on television, the Chiefs managed to keep it close for the first half, and by halftime Green Bay was ahead just 14-10. The Chiefs’ only touchdown came in the second quarter, on a seven-yard pass from quarterback Len Dawson to Curtis McClinton.
The Packers, however, proceeded to break the game wide open, after safety Willie Wood intercepted a Dawson pass and returned the ball 50 yards to set up a touchdown. Green Bay scored three more times in the second half, as Elijah Pitts ran in two touchdowns and backup end Max McGee--who came on the field after the starter Boyd Dowler was injured on the sixth play of the game--caught his second touchdown pass of the day. Prior to the game, McGee had made only four receptions all season; he made seven that night, for a total of 138 yards.
The Packers’ famed quarterback, Bryan Bartlett "Bart" Starr, completed 16 of 23 passes on the night. The score at game’s end stood at 35-10, and Starr was named Most Valuable Player. Asked to comment on the match-up after the game, Green Bay Coach Vince Lombardi expressed the common opinion that even the best of the AFL--the Chiefs--"doesn’t compare with the top NFL teams."
Two years later, the AFL proved itself to doubters by winning its first championship, when Joe Namath led the New York Jets to an upset 16-7 victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. In 1970, the AFL and NFL merged into one league, as the Colts, Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to join the 10 AFL teams to form American Football Conference (AFC). Since then, the Super Bowl has been the annual meeting of the top teams in the AFC and the National Football Conference (NFC) for the championship of the NFL.
Jan 15, 1970: Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
The Republic of Biafra, a breakaway state of eastern Nigeria, surrenders to Nigeria after three years of costly fighting.
In 1960, Nigeria gained independence from Britain. Six years later, the Muslim Hausas in northern Nigeria began massacring the Christian Igbos in the region, prompting tens of thousands of Igbos to flee to the east, where their people were the dominant ethnic group. The Igbos doubted that Nigeria's oppressive military government would allow them to develop, or even survive, so on May 30, 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu and other non-Igbo representatives of the area established the Republic of Biafra, comprising several states of Nigeria.
After diplomatic efforts by Nigeria failed to reunite the country, war between Nigeria and Biafra broke out in July 1967. Ojukwu's forces made some initial advances, but Nigeria's superior military might gradually reduced Biafran territory. The state lost its oil fields--its main source of revenue--and without the funds to import food, an estimated one million of its civilians died as a result of severe malnutrition. On January 11, Nigerian forces captured the provincial capital of Owerri, one of the last Biafran strongholds, and Ojukwu was forced to flee to the Ivory Coast. Four days later, Biafra surrendered to Nigeria.
Jan 15, 1777: New Connecticut (Vermont) declares independence
Having recognized the need for their territory to assert its independence from both Britain and New York and remove themselves from the war they were waging against each other, a convention of future Vermonters assembles in Westminster and declares independence from the crown of Great Britain and the colony of New York on this day in 1777. The convention's delegates included Vermont's future governor, Thomas Chittenden, and Ira Allen, who would become known as the "father" of the University of Vermont.
Delegates first named the independent state New Connecticut and, in June 1777, finally settled on the name Vermont, an imperfect translation of the French for green mountain. One month later, on July 2, 1777, a convention of 72 delegates met in Windsor, Vermont, to adopt the state's new—and revolutionary—constitution; it was formally adopted on July 8, 1777. Vermont's constitution was not only the first written national constitution drafted in North America, but also the first to prohibit slavery and to give all adult males, not just property owners, the right to vote. Thomas Chittenden became Vermont's first governor in 1778.
Throughout the 1780s, Congress refused to acknowledge that Vermont was a separate state independent of New York. In response, frustrated Vermonters went so far as to inquire if the British would readmit their territory to the empire as part of Canada. Vermont remained an independent nation even two years after George Washington became president of the United States of America under the new U.S. Constitution. However, as the politics of slavery threatened to divide the U.S., Vermont was finally admitted as the new nation's 14th state in 1791, serving as a free counterbalance to slaveholding Kentucky, which joined the Union in 1792.
Jan 15, 1951: The "Witch of Buchenwald" is sentenced to prison
On this day, Ilse Koch, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Ilse Koch was nicknamed the "Witch of Buchenwald" for her extraordinary sadism.
Born in Dresden, Germany, Ilse, a librarian, married SS. Col. Karl Koch in 1936. Colonel Koch, a man with his own reputation for sadism, was the commandant of the Sashsenhausen concentration camp, two miles north of Berlin. He was transferred after three years to Buchenwald concentration camp, 4.5 miles northwest of Weimar; the Buchenwald concentration camp held a total of 20,000 slave laborers during the war.
Ilse, a large woman with red hair, was given free reign in the camp, whipping prisoners with her riding crop as she rode by on her horse, forcing prisoners to have sex with her, and, most horrifying, collecting lampshades, book covers, and gloves made from the skin of tattooed camp prisoners. A German inmate gave the following testimony during the Nuremberg war trials: "All prisoners with tattooing on them were to report to the dispensary... After the prisoners had been examined, the ones with the best and most artistic specimens were killed by injections. The corpses were then turned over to the pathological department, where the desired pieces of tattooed skin were detached from the bodies and treated further."
Karl Koch was arrested, ironically enough, by his SS superiors for "having gone too far." It seems he had a penchant for stealing even the belongings of wealthy, well-placed Germans. He was tried and hanged in 1944. Ilse Koch was tried for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg and sentenced to life in prison, but the American military governor of the occupied zone subsequently reduced her sentence to four years. His reason, "lack of evidence," caused a Senate investigation back home. She was released but arrested again, tried by a West German court, and sentenced to life. She committed suicide in 1967 by hanging herself with a bedsheet.
Jan 15, 1929: Martin Luther King Jr. born
On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate degree in theology and in 1955 helped organized the first major protest of the African-American civil rights movement: the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott. Influenced by Mohandas Gandhi, he advocated civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance to segregation in the South. The peaceful protests he led throughout the American South were often met with violence, but King and his followers persisted, and the movement gained momentum.
A powerful orator, King appealed to Christian and American ideals and won growing support from the federal government and Northern whites. In 1963, Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph led the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom; the event's grand finale was King's famous "I Have a Dream" address. Two hundred and fifty thousand people gathered outside the Lincoln Memorial to hear the stirring speech. In 1964, the civil rights movement achieved two of its greatest successes: the ratification of the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public facilities. Later that year, King became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1960s, King openly criticized U.S. involvement in Vietnam and turned his efforts to winning economic rights for poor Americans. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Jan 15, 1953: Dulles calls for "liberation of captive peoples"
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prior to taking office as the new secretary of state, John Foster Dulles argues that U.S. foreign policy must strive for the "liberation of captive peoples" living under communist rule.
Though Dulles called for a more vigorous anticommunist policy, he remained vague about exactly how the "liberation" would take place. When asked during the hearing whether he supported the policy of containment, which sought to restrain the further expansion of communist power, Dulles responded by declaring, "We shall never have a secure peace or a happy world so long as Soviet communism dominates one-third of all of the peoples."
Despite the vague specifics of the original declaration, Dulles's call for action was soon put into practice. The Eisenhower administration conceived a wide-ranging program of political and psychological warfare, and overseas propaganda—produced and disseminated by the new United States Information Agency—became an important Cold War weapon. In Iran, Guatemala, and later, Cuba, the United States resorted to covert operations directed by the Central Intelligence Agency to destabilize foreign governments perceived to be a communist threat.
In 1956, however, Dulles's oft-repeated calls for the liberation of captive peoples backfired badly when Hungarian citizens rose up in revolt against the Soviet presence in their country. As the Russians crushed the uprising, the United States did nothing while Hungarian rebels pleaded helplessly for assistance.
Jan 15, 1831: The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finished
On this day in 1831, Victor Hugo finishes writing Notre Dame de Paris, also known as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Distracted by other projects, Hugo had continually postponed his deadlines for delivering the book to his publishers, but once he sat down to write it, he completed the novel in only four months.
Hugo, the son of one of Napoleon's officers, decided while still a teenager to become a writer. Although he studied law, he also founded a literary review to which he and other emerging writers published their work. In 1822, Hugo married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher, and published his first volume of poetry, which won him a pension from Louis XVIII.
In 1823, Hugo published his first novel, Han d'Islande. His 1827 play, Cromwell, embraced the tenets of Romanticism, which he laid out in the play's preface. The following year, despite a contract to begin work on a novel called Notre Dame de Paris, he set to work on two plays. The first, Marion de Lorme (1829), was censored for its candid portrayal of a courtesan. The second, Hernani, became the subject for a bitter and protracted debate between French Classicists and Romantics. In 1831, he finally finished Notre Dame de Paris. In addition to promoting a Romantic aesthetic that would tolerate the imperfect and the grotesque, the book also had a simpler agenda: to increase appreciation of old Gothic structures, which had become the object of vandalism and neglect.
In the 1830s, Hugo wrote numerous plays, many created as vehicles for actress Juliette Drouet, with whom Hugo was romantically connected starting in 1833. In 1841, Hugo was elected to the prestigious Acadamie Francaise, but two years later he lost his beloved daughter and her husband when they were drowned in an accident. He expressed his profound grief in a poetry collection called Les Contemplations (1856).
Hugo was forced to flee France when Napoleon III came to power: He did not return for 20 years. While in exile, he completed Les Miserables (1862), which became a hit in France and abroad. He returned to Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and was hailed a national hero. Hugo's writing spanned more than six decades, and he was given a national funeral and buried in the Pantheon after his death in 1885.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar 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 only rules for three months before committing suicide.
708 - Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days
later)
946 - Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted
1346 - Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife
Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1535 - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1552 - France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
1562 - 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens
1582 - Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses
access to Baltic
1586 - Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat
state army
1752 - Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding
of plagiarism
1754 - Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
1759 - British Museum opens in Montague House, London
1762 - Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC
1777 - People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare
independence from England
1780 - Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
1785 - Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres
1797 - 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
1822 - Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is
elected president of the legislative assembly.
1831 - 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train
makes 1st run
1831 - 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson,
Charleston, SC
1833 - HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego
1844 - U of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1847 - 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in
NYC
1851 - Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera
1857 - 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW v Vic at The
Domain
1861 - Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 - 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston
Morning Journal
1865 - Ft Fisher, NC falls to Union troops
1866 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori v
Cechach," premieres in Prague
1870 - Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in
Harper's Weekly
1877 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens
1882 - 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
1886 - Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes
1st issue
1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton
Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
1895 - Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record
1895 - French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar
Composer Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyComposer Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky 1895 - Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St
Petersburg (1/27 NS)
1896 - Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost
Angel," premieres in London
1900 - SCNEC soccer team forms
1905 - Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round
skater
1907 - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
1907 - Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who
invented them
1908 - C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership
243 for Aust
1915 - Japan claims economic control of China
1915 - Sydney, Kern & Smith's musical "Love o'
Mike," premieres in NYC
1919 - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA,
drowning 21
1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der
Menschheit," premieres
1919 - Pianist & statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st
premier of Poland
1919 - Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos
Aires
1919 - W Collison & O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's
Room," premieres in NYC
1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most
prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
Irish Nationalist Leader Michael CollinsIrish Nationalist
Leader Michael Collins 1922 - Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes
1st Premier
1924 - 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms
1925 - Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP
1930 - George Headley scores century on debut v England
(made 176)
1934 - 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die
1934 - Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000
cut)
1935 - 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian
competition
1935 - Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty,"
premieres in NYC
1936 - 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed,
Toledo, Ohio
1936 - Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants
1936 - Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates
1939 - 1st NFL pro bowl, NY Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in
Wrigley Field
1939 - Municipal Railway & Market St RR begin service to
Transbay Terminal
1940 - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk
(Eagle's Church)
1942 - Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to
WW II
32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1942 - FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during
WW II
1943 - 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration
camp Vught
1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed
1943 - 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for
Pentagon
1944 - European Advisory Commission decides to divide
Germany
1944 - General Eisenhower arrives in England
1944 - Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10
die
1945 - "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst
Theater NYC for 429 perfs
1945 - Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets
1945 - Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The
Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1949 - Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights
Conference in Wash DC
1951 - "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount
Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000
1951 - Supreme Court rule "clear & present
danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause
for arrest
Baseball Great Babe RuthBaseball Great Babe Ruth 1953 - 16
car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station
1953 - GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested
for "espionage"
1955 - 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches
tanker Vasum
1955 - D Shostakovitch' "From Jewish Folk Poetry,"
premieres in Leningrad
1955 - USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1956 - Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open
1956 - D Shostakovitch appointed honorary member of Academia
Santa Cecilia
1956 - KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins
broadcasting
1956 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets
Field
1958 - NY Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140
games on WPIX TV
1961 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31
1961 - Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
Open
1961 - Supremes signed with Motown Records
1962 - 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R
Emerson (86 06 64 64)
1962 - Dutch & Indonesian navy encounter in Etna Bay New
Guinea
1964 - Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in NYC
1964 - Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract
1965 - Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't
Explain"
1965 - Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich forms
1966 - AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19
1966 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7
1967 - Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10
in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
1968 - KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins
broadcasting
1969 - Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1969 - Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union
1970 - Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland
A's)
1970 - Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria
1971 - "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC
for 19 performances
1971 - Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
1971 - George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
1972 - Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels
1973 - 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
1973 - Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel
1973 - Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican
1973 - Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N
Vietnam
1974 - "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
1974 - 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at
Seattle
1974 - Expert panel reports 18½ minute gap in Watergate
tape, 5 separate erasures
1975 - Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
1975 - Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
1976 - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to
shoot Pres Ford
1976 - US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar
orbit
1976 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 - Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
1977 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf
Tournament
1978 - Theodore Bundy kills Fla State U coeds Lisa Levy
& Margaret Bowman
1978 - Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos,
27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE & Randy White,
Dallas, DT
1980 - Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London
1981 - "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
1981 - Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1982 - "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard
Alessandrini premieres in NYC
1983 - Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
1983 - Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils)
during blizzard
1983 - Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand v
India
1983 - Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for
over 7 hours
Tennis Player Martina NavratilovaTennis Player Martina
Navratilova 1984 - Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning
streak
1984 - Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44)
1985 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery
& Fred Chapell
1985 - Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected
president
1985 - Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's v
India
1985 - Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of
Brazil in 21 years
1986 - Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist
remarks about black athletes
1988 - Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world
Test record
1988 - Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI
on Test debut
1989 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador
Theater NYC after 176 perfs
1989 - 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1989 - Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
1989 - Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
Boxing Champ George ForemanBoxing Champ George Foreman 1990
- 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
1990 - 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1990 - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a
computer glitch
1990 - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free
agent
1990 - NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats
Bulls, 109-106
1991 - Australia beat NZ 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1991 - UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they
don't)
1992 - Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
1992 - Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah
Ferguson with US man
1992 - Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't
entitled to asylum
1993 - 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
1993 - Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on
NBC TV
1993 - Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina
arrested in Palermo
1994 - 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime
wins 10
1994 - Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks
Dutch record (.47%)
1994 - Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her
left wrist
1995 - Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
1995 - Western Washington begins using new area code 360
Basketball Player Dennis RodmanBasketball Player Dennis
Rodman 1997 - Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the
groin
1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1998 - NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
1999 - The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo
village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
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.
2005 - An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar
system.
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.
2009 - US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing
into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York
City. All passengers and crew members survive.
2011 - Wikipedia the free internet encyclopedia turns 10
years old
2013 - 83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket
attack on Aleppo University, Syria
2013 - 19 Egyptian Army recruits are killed and 120 are
injured in a train accident in Giza
1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1624 - Many riots occurred in Mexico when it was announced that all churches were to be closed. 1777 - The people of New Connecticut (now the state of Vermont) declared their independence. 1844 - The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana. 1863 - "The Boston Morning Journal" became the first paper in the U.S. to be published on wood pulp paper. 1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time. 1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball. 1899 - Edwin Markham's poem, "The Man With a Hoe," was published for the first time. 1906 - Willie Hoppe won the billiard championship of the world in Paris, France. 1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became America's first Greek-letter organization established by African-American college women. 1913 - The first telephone line between Berlin and New York was inaugurated. 1936 - The first, all glass, windowless building was completed in Toledo, OH. The building was the new home of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company Laboratory. 1943 - The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors. 1945 - CBS Radio debuted "House Party". The show was on the air for 22 years. 1953 - Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to give his farewell as he left office. 1955 - The first solar-heated, radiation-cooled house was built by Raymond Bliss in Tucson, AZ. 1967 - The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10. 1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace negotiations as the reason. 1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV. 1986 - President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January. 1987 - Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the first time. It was a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of "Top Gun." 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection.
1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1624 - Many riots occurred in Mexico when it was announced that all churches were to be closed. 1777 - The people of New Connecticut (now the state of Vermont) declared their independence. 1844 - The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana. 1863 - "The Boston Morning Journal" became the first paper in the U.S. to be published on wood pulp paper. 1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time. 1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball. 1899 - Edwin Markham's poem, "The Man With a Hoe," was published for the first time. 1906 - Willie Hoppe won the billiard championship of the world in Paris, France. 1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became America's first Greek-letter organization established by African-American college women. 1913 - The first telephone line between Berlin and New York was inaugurated. 1936 - The first, all glass, windowless building was completed in Toledo, OH. The building was the new home of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company Laboratory. 1943 - The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors. 1945 - CBS Radio debuted "House Party". The show was on the air for 22 years. 1953 - Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to give his farewell as he left office. 1955 - The first solar-heated, radiation-cooled house was built by Raymond Bliss in Tucson, AZ. 1967 - The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10. 1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace negotiations as the reason. 1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV. 1986 - President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January. 1987 - Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the first time. It was a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of "Top Gun." 2003 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Congress had permission to repeatedly extend copyright protection.
1559 Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 1759 The British Museum opened. 1777 The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence. Six months later it was renamed Vermont. 1870 The donkey was first used as symbol of the Democratic Party in Harper's Weekly. 1943 The world's largest office building, the Pentagon, was completed. 1967 The first Super Bowl was played: Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10. 1973 President Nixon orders halt to offensive operations in North Vietnam. 1992 The European Community recognized Croatia and Slovenia as separate states, effectively ending the Yugoslav federation, founded in 1918. 2009 After allegedly striking a flock of geese, US Airways Flight 1549, en route from La Guardia Airport, New York City, to Charlotte, N.C., is forced to land in the Hudson River. All 150 passengers and 5 crew members survived. The pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, was hailed as the "Hero of the Hudson" for his quick thinking and deft landing of the plane.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jan15.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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