15 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 15 is the day number 15 in a given year. January 15 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1752	Tobius Smollett published a leaflet accusing Henry Fielding of plagiarism.
1754	The riot occurred in Amsterdam on the burial of the Orangeist leader Daniel Rappe.
1759	The British Museum opened in Montegu House, London after 6 years of development.
1759	The British Museum in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
1759	The British Museum was established at Monteguve House in London.
1777	The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence from several jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of New Hampshire and New York.
1784	The Asiatic Society of Bengal was established.
1795	Legendary Giribayodef, a Russian writer and politician with great expertise in drama writing, was born.
1802	Kansasburg Academy of Modern Washington and Jefferson College) founded by the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
1815	War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1826	The French newspaper "Le Figaro" began publication in Paris as a weekly newspaper.
1839	El Salvador formally gained independence following the dissolution of the Central American Union.
1854	German mathematician and physicist Georg Simon Ohm died at the age of 67.
1865	American Civil War-The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy.
1885	American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first knownphotograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellowscamera to a microscope.
1889	The Coca-Cola Company (then the Pemberton Madison Company) was incorporated in Georgia.
1910	Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam inthe world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming was completed.
1919	A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets , killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1931	An earthquake in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico injured 114.
1933	A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
1937	Spanish Civil War-Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1943	Construction of Pentagon, world's largest office building, completed.
1943	The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.
1951	Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
1968	An earthquake in Sicily killed 380 people and injured around 1,000 people.
1975	Portugal signed the Alvor Agreement with UNITA, the MPLA, andthe FNLA, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
1981	Hill Street Blues, one of American television's most critically acclaimed shows, aired its pilot episode, 'Hill Street Station'.
1986	First Army Commander-in-Chief KM Cariappa retired) was given the rank of Field Marshal.
1991	Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed 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 'The Beast' Riina, one of the most powerful members of the Sicilian Mafia, was arrested after three decades as a fugitive.
1995	For NFC championship San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys.
1995	Southern Alabama and Western Washington begin using new area code 334 and 360 respectively.
1998	John Glenne, 76 may fly in space again. The NASA of USA has declared this.
2009	All 155 passengers survived in the US airways plane when it get ditched in the Hudson River.
2009	After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City, Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.
2010	An army colonel and a military commander of Bejaija were killed by the Muslim fundamentalists in north Algeria.
2011	Due to enormous flood in Australia 13,000 properties in rural Victoria was destroyed.
2012	John Huntsman, a Presidential primary candidate of Republican Party drop out of the race, endorsing Mitt Romney.
2013	A rocket attack at Syria's Aleppo University killed 83 people and injured 150.
2013	DNA of horse was present in some beef burgers on sales in supermarkets in Ireland and in the UK. This has been found by the Republic of Ireland's Food Authority.
2013	Ahmed al- Ghazawi, the Egyptian woman lawyer was sentenced to prison for five years and 300 hundred lashes for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills.
2014	There is a prediction of the World Bank global forest that there is an increase in growth to 3.2 percent from 2.4 percent in 2013.
2016	The terrorist attack at the hotel in Ogadogu in the West African country of Burkina Faso killed 28 people and injured 56 people.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1926	Independent India's first Olympic medalist K.D. Jadhav was born.
1934	An earthquake measuring 8.7 struck India and Nepal. About 11,000 lives were lost in this earthquake.
1949	KM Kariyappa became the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. Since then, 15 January has been celebrated as Army Day.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1888	Saifuddin Kitchlew / Politician / India
1934	V S Ramadevi / Politician / India
1956	Mayawati / Politician / India
1888	Dr. Saifuddin Kichalu / Lawyer / India
1888	Saiffudin Kichlu / Politician / India
1899	Giani Gurmukh Singh Musafir / Politician / India
1917	K. A. Thangavelu / Actor / India
1921	Babasaheb Bhosale / Politician / India
1926	Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav / Wrestler / India
1932	Jagannath Pahadia / Politician / India
1934	V. S. Ramadevi / Civil Servant / India
1934	V. S. Ramadevi / Election Commissioner / India
1934	V. S. Ramadevi / Politician / India
1938	Chuni Goswami / Cricketer / India
1948	Bal Govind Dwivedi / Writer / India
1956	Mayawati / Politician / India

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