January 15

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January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of the year (351 in leap years).

[edit] Events

• 588BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.
• 69 - Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide.
• 1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1582 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
• 1759 - The British Museum opens.
• 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
• 1943
  • World War II: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
  • The Pentagon is dedicated as the headquarters of the US military
• 1951 - Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald labour camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
• 1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
• 2001 - Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

[edit] Births

• 1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
• 1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
• 1716 - Philip Livingston, American founding father (d. 1778)
• 1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
• 1863 - Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1946)
• 1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
• 1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American Black activist (d. 1968)

[edit] Deaths

• 69 - Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BC)
• 570 - Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
• 936 - King Rudolph of France
• 1345 - Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler
• 1595 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
• 1983 - Meyer Lansky, Jewish-Russian-born gangster (b. 1902)