110 sourced historical events are currently published for January 15. Browse the chronology below or filter this date by place and event type. This collection is expanding, not an exhaustive account of the day.
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Otho became Roman emperor on 15 January AD 69, during the Year of the Four Emperors. His reign lasted until 16 April 69. This entry records his accession, not the creation of the office of Roman emperor.
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The siege of Nara (南都焼討, Nantō Yakiuchi) alternatively known as the Nanto Arson Campaign in Japan is an event which took place on January 15, 1181 (December 28, 1180 in the Jishō calendar), following Prince Mochihito and Minamoto no Yorimasa's defeat and subsequent death to the Taira clan, after which the Taira forces burnt down the Miidera temple (which had sheltered the anti-Taira forces), before moving on to Nara, where they "set fire to the monastic complexes of Kōfuku-ji and Tōdai-ji."
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The Battle of Capua was fought between 11–15 January 1348 between the troops of Louis I of Hungary and those of the Kingdom of Naples, in the course of the former's invasion of Naples. The Neapolitan troops, led by Queen Joan's second husband Louis of Taranto, were in the fortified town of Capua.
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The Battle of Sandwich was a naval skirmish off the town of Sandwich on the 15 January 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. In it, Sir John Dynham, Sir John Wenlock, and the Earl of Warwick, Captain of Calais, on the Yorkist side, defeated a Lancastrian fleet and captured several of its ships. Little evidence and few details of the battle survive.
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Elizabeth I was crowned at Westminster Abbey in London on 15 January 1559. The coronation was a separate ceremony from her accession to the English and Irish thrones on 17 November 1558.
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The Battle of Zarghan (Persian: نبرد زرگان) was the last battle of Ashraf Hotak's career as a statesman. Having been repeatedly bludgeoned by Nader's army through the Battles of Mehmandoost and Murche-Khort, Ashraf had withdrawn from Isfahan and escaped south to Shiraz to rebuild his army in an ultimately futile attempt to reverse his fortunes.
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On 15 January 1759, the British Museum opened its first exhibition galleries and a scholars’ reading room at Montagu House in London. The opening to visitors was distinct from the museum’s establishment in 1753.
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On January 15, 1777, delegates in what is now Vermont declared independence from competing colonial jurisdictions and land claims. The resulting independent state remained without foreign diplomatic recognition until it joined the United States as Vermont in 1791. The January declaration was not the later admission to the Union.
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The action of 15 January 1782 was a minor naval engagement that occurred near the island of Jamaica during the American Revolutionary War. A Royal Naval frigate, HMS Fox, intercepted and engaged two Spanish merchantmen of the Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas, one of 26 guns and the other of 20. Fox was a 32-gun Active-class fifth-rate frigate commanded by Captain Thomas Windsor from 1781.
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The Battle of Quilon (or Battle of Kollam) was fought on the 15 January 1809 at Cantonment Maidan in Quilon, an important port city and business hub on the south west coat of India. The conflict involved troops of the Indian kingdom of Travancore, led by the then Dewan (prime minister) of Travancore, Velu Thampi Dalawa, and a detachment of the British East India Company under Colonel Chalmers. The battle lasted for only six hours and is closely associated with the social and political history of Kerala.
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The Battle of Pla (15 January 1811) saw an Imperial French column made up of two Italian brigades clash with a Spanish division under the command of Pedro Sarsfield. The Spanish troops held steady and repulsed the attack of the first brigade, then counterattacked and defeated both brigades. The combat occurred during the Peninsular War, part of the Napoleonic Wars. The action was fought near El Pla de Santa Maria, north of Valls, Spain. The Siege of Tortosa ended on 2 January 1811 when the Spanish garrison surrendered to Louis Gabriel Suchet's III Corps.
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The Cambodian Conflict of 1812–1813 was a dynastic conflict between the incumbent King Ang Chan II of Cambodia, who had support from the Vietnamese Nguyen dynasty under Emperor Gia Long, and his younger brother Prince Ang Sngoun, who had support from Siam under King Rama II of the Rattanakosin Kingdom, resulting in both the Siamese and the Vietnamese marching armies into Cambodia.
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The capture of USS President was one of many naval actions fought at the end of the War of 1812. The American frigate USS President tried to break out of New York Harbor but was intercepted by a British squadron of four frigates and forced to surrender.
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On 15 January 1818, David Brewster’s paper on the laws of polarisation and double refraction in regularly crystallised bodies was read at the Royal Society. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signed a supplement on the effects of reflection on polarised light; that supplement was submitted for witnessing on 19 January. Reading, signing and submission were separate acts.
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On January 15, 1838, a joint United States Navy–Army force led by Lieutenant Levin M. Powell fought Seminoles near the Loxahatchee River in southern Florida. A second battle took place in the same area on January 24 under General Thomas Jesup. This entry records the first battle.
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The 1858 Encounter Bay colonial by-election was held on 15 January 1858 to elect one of two members for Encounter Bay in the South Australian House of Assembly, after sitting member Benjamin Herschel Babbage resigned on 17 December 1857. Henry Bull Templer Strangways won the by-election with 53 per cent of the vote, although the election had an incredibly low turnout, with only six per cent of registered voters casting a ballot.
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The two chambers of the Massachusetts legislature voted in Boston to return Charles Sumner to the U.S. Senate for another six-year term.
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The Raid on Godfrey Ranch occurred from January 15–16, 1865 in which a large band of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors attacked an isolated ranch in Colorado owned by Holon Godfrey. The raid was one of the numerous January raids by the Cheyennes and its Indian allies during the Colorado War, which were retaliation for the Sand Creek massacre that happened on November 29, 1864. The Indians first attacked the neighboring American Ranch, in which a white family and some of their workers perished, before setting their sights on Godfrey's ranch nearby.
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The Second Battle of Fort Fisher was a successful assault by the Union Army, Navy and Marine Corps against Fort Fisher, south of Wilmington, North Carolina, near the end of the American Civil War in January 1865. Sometimes referred to as the "Gibraltar of the South" and the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy, Fort Fisher had tremendous strategic value during the war, providing a port for blockade runners supplying the Army of Northern Virginia.
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The 1867 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on January 15, 1867. Simon Cameron was elected by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to the United States Senate.
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The 1867 United States Senate election in New York was held on January 15, 1867, by the New York State Legislature to elect a U.S. senator (Class 3) to represent the State of New York in the United States Senate. Incumbent Senator Ira Harris was not renominated for a second term in office. U.S. Representative Roscoe Conkling was elected to succeed him.
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The Regent's Park skating disaster occurred on 15 January 1867 when 40 people died after the ice broke on the lake in London's Regent's Park, pitching about 200 people into icy water up to 12 ft (3.7 m) deep. Most were rescued by bystanders, but 40 people died either from hypothermia or by drowning. At the time, this catastrophe was considered the worst weather-related accident in British history.
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Thomas Nast’s cartoon A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion appeared in Harper’s Weekly on January 15, 1870. It used a donkey to represent Northern Democrats. Nast helped popularise the party symbol, but the donkey had already appeared in Democratic political imagery before this cartoon.
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Die Afrikaanse Patriot was the first Afrikaans-language newspaper. The first issue was published in Paarl on 15 January 1876. Initially a monthly magazine, it became a weekly two years later. Even though the first edition had just 50 subscribers, it swiftly drew sharp condemnation for promoting Afrikaans as a literary language, as it was then considered nothing more than a "kitchen" variety of Dutch.
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The Battle of Miraflores occurred on January 15, 1881 in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru. It was an important battle during the War of the Pacific that was fought between Chile and the forces of Peru. The Chilean army led by Gen. Manuel Baquedano defeated the army commanded by Nicolás de Piérola guarding the second defensive line of the Peruvian capital city. Two days later, Lima, the capital city of Peru was occupied by Chilean troops. Gen. Baquedano's forces marched into Lima triumphant, while Peru's president and his officers fled into the interior, leaving the country without any government.
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Parliamentary elections were held in the Empire of Brazil on 15 January 1886 to elect members of the 20th legislature of the Chamber of Deputies. These were the third direct elections held after the Saraiva Law was enacted (Law No. 3,029 of 9 January 1881) The Conservative Party won 103 seats, the Liberal Party won 22, and the Republican Party won none.
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The 1889 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held in January 1889. Incumbent Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar was re-elected to a third term in office with no serious opposition. At the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a resolution of the Massachusetts General Court.
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The City of Wellington by-election of 1892 was a by-election held on 15 January 1892 during the 11th New Zealand Parliament in the urban seat of the City of Wellington.
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James Naismith’s basketball rules appeared in The Triangle on January 15, 1892. The publication introduced the game developed at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. This was a publication milestone, distinct from the invention and first playing of the game.
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The January 1894 Calgary municipal election was scheduled for January 15, 1894 to elect a Mayor and nine Councillors to sit on the first Calgary City Council from January 17, 1894 to January 7, 1895. In addition, two members were elected as school trustees.
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The 1895 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held in January 1895. Incumbent Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar was re-elected to a fourth term in office. At the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a resolution of the Massachusetts General Court.
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The 1901 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held in January 1901. Incumbent Republican Senator George Frisbie Hoar was re-elected to a fifth term in office. At the time, Massachusetts elected United States senators by a resolution of the Massachusetts General Court.
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The 1902–03 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1902 and 1903, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock.
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The 1904 Norwich by-election was a Parliamentary by-election held on 15 January 1904. The constituency returned two Members of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
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Local elections were held for provincial and municipal posts throughout the Philippine Archipelago on January 15, 1905. Famous lawyers and doctors including the rich and the wealthy, political families were elected. Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmeña Sr. were elected as the first Filipino provincial governors of Tayabas and Cebu.
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On January 15, 1908, nine founders held Alpha Kappa Alpha’s first official business meeting in Miner Hall at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The historically African American women’s sorority was later incorporated in 1913, a separate institutional milestone.
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Workers placed the final concrete for the original Buffalo Bill Dam on Wyoming's Shoshone River. Completed as Shoshone Dam, the concrete arch structure was then the tallest dam in the world and became part of a major irrigation project.
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The Arabic-language Palestinian newspaper Falastin began publication in Jaffa on January 15, 1911, according to the National Library of Israel’s newspaper catalogue. Jaffa was then in Ottoman Palestine. The catalogue’s publication date is distinct from the January 14 founding date given in some accounts and from the earliest digitised issues available online.
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An election to Belfast Corporation took place in 1914 as part of that year's Irish local elections. This would be the last election before the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1919, which would replace the traditional FPTP based ward system with an STV system based on proportional representation. The election saw Unionists continuing their dominance of the council, winning a massive majority of the council's seats.
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An election for all 24 members of Sligo Corporation took place on 15 January 1919, using the single transferable vote (STV). Urban districts in Ireland held annual elections on 15 January each year under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, using plurality voting to replace a cohort of one-third or one-quarter of their councillors. Those elections for 1915–19 were postponed while the First World War was still in progress. The Sligo election was held under the Sligo Corporation Act of 1918, a private act passed in the UK Parliament under the sponsorship of the Sligo Ratepayers Association (SRA), an alliance of Protestants and businessmen which opposed the actions of the outgoing corporation.
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The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster or the Great Boston Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles per hour (56 kilometers per hour), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and for decades afterward residents claimed that on hot summer days the area still smelled of molasses.
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A presidential election was held in El Salvador between 13 and 15 January 1919, when Salvadorans elected their next president to serve a four-year term from 1919 to 1923. In the election, Jorge Meléndez defeated Pío Romero Bosque and Arturo Araujo; Provisional president Alfonso Quiñónez Molina was elected as Jorge's vice president.
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The Battle of Port-au-Prince, or "la débâcle", took place on January 15, 1920 when Haitian rebels, known as cacos, attacked the capital of Haiti during the Second Caco War and the American occupation of Haiti. At 4:00 a.m., "more than 300" caco rebels, many wearing the stolen uniform of the Haitian gendarmes, commanded by Benoît Batraville, attacked the city. The rebels moved into Port-au-Prince in columns, “with flags and conch horns blowing,” only to be gunned down by Browning Automatic Rifle and machine gun fire. It turns out that the city's garrison of American Marines and Haitian gendarmes were ready for the assault, since a citizen who heard the rebels coming informed the former.
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An election to Londonderry Borough Council took place on Thursday 15 January 1920 as part of that year's Irish local elections. As a result, Unionists lost control over Londonderry borough council, which for the first time passed into the control of the city's Catholic majority. The various Nationalist parties in the city contested the election on a pan-nationalist front, emphasizing the national question of Irish self-government, as well as issues over housing.
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An election to Dublin Corporation took place on Thursday, 15 January 1920 as part of the 1920 Irish local elections. Dublin was divided into ten borough electoral areas to elect 80 councillors for a five-year term of office on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Sinn Féin won a slight majority in the council, with 42 seats.
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On January 15, 1924, Louisiana held the first of two Democratic primaries in its governor’s race. A runoff followed on February 19. With Republicans having little electoral support at the time, the Democratic primaries were the decisive contests; January 15 was not the runoff or a single combined two-round voting day.
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The 1934 Nepal–India earthquake or 1934 Bihar–Nepal earthquake was one of the worst earthquakes in India's history. The towns of Munger and Muzaffarpur were completely destroyed. This 8.0 magnitude earthquake occurred on 15 January 1934 at around 2:13 pm IST (08:43 UTC) and caused widespread damage in northern Bihar and in Nepal.
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Presidential elections were held in El Salvador between 13 and 15 January 1935. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was the only candidate and was returned unopposed. No results were posted.
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The Chinese Communist Party held an enlarged Politburo meeting in Zunyi, Guizhou, China, from 15 to 17 January 1935 during the Long March. The conference reviewed military strategy and leadership. This entry marks the opening on January 15; it does not describe the meeting as a formal election of a party chairman.
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The Second Battle of the Corunna Road (Spanish: Batalla de la Carretera de Coruña) was a battle of the Spanish Civil War that took place from 13 December 1936 to 15 January 1937, northwest of Madrid. In December 1936, the Nationalists launched an offensive in order to cut the Corunna Road and isolate Madrid, but a Republican counter-offensive stopped the Nationalist advance.
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The Pentagon’s construction was officially completed in Arlington County, Virginia. War Department staff had begun moving into finished sections the previous year while work continued elsewhere in the building.
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Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – c. January 14–15, 1947), posthumously known as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947. Her case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime, which included the mutilation and bisection of her corpse.
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The Tianjin campaign was the epitome of the Pingjin campaign, fought between the nationalists and the communists during the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II era. The result of the Tianjin campaign helped to determine the outcome of the Pingjin campaign. The original communist plan was to capture Tanggu first to cut off the nationalist escape route via sea and then force the nationalists in Beijing and Tianjin to surrender, in order to save the two historical cities from the destruction of the war.
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On 15 January 1962, Indonesian and Dutch naval forces fought in the Arafura Sea near Etna Bay in western New Guinea. The engagement is also known as the Battle of Vlakke Hoek. It later became the focus of an Indonesian naval remembrance day.
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1963 Emperor's Cup Final was the 43rd final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at Kobe Oji Stadium in Hyōgo on January 15, 1964. Waseda University won the championship.
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The 1966 Nigerian coup d'état began on January 15, 1966 when mutinous Nigerian soldiers led by Kaduna Nzeogwu assassinated 11 senior Nigerian politicians and two soldiers as well as kidnapping three others. The coup plotters attacked the cities of Kaduna, Ibadan, and Lagos while also blockading the Niger and Benue River within a two-day span of time before the coup plotters were subdued. A senior Army officer, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi then used the coup as a pretext to annex power, ending Nigeria's nascent democracy. It was one of the events that led to the Nigerian Civil War.
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The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast, as the Super Bowl, was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35–10. Coming into this game, considerable animosity remained between the AFL and NFL, thus the teams representing the two rival leagues (Kansas City and Green Bay, respectively) felt pressure to win.
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1966 Emperor's Cup Final was the 46th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium in Tokyo on January 15, 1967. Waseda University won the cup.
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Operation Deckhouse Five was a United States Marine Corps (USMC) and Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps operation that took place from 6–15 January 1967 in the Mekong Delta, during the Vietnam War. "The ten-day sweep," reported the AP from its daily military roundup from Saigon, "proved unproductive."
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Soyuz 5 (Russian: Союз 5, Union 5) was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It was the first docking of two crewed spacecraft of any nation, and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another of any nation, the only time a transfer was accomplished with a space walk – two months before the United States Apollo 9 mission performed the first internal crew transfer.
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The Nigerian Civil War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), also known as the Biafran War, Nigeria–Biafra War, or Biafra War, was an armed conflict fought between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra, a secessionist state that had declared its independence from Nigeria in 1967. During the war years, General Yakubu Gowon served as the head of state of Nigeria, while Biafra was led by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu.
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The United States announced it was stopping bombing, mining and other offensive military operations against North Vietnam as peace talks progressed. The announcement preceded the Paris Peace Accords later that month.
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Indirect presidential elections were held in Brazil on 15 January 1974. They were the fourth presidential elections held under the military government and were carried out through an electoral college.
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The Alvor Agreement, signed on 15 January 1975 in Alvor, Portugal, granted Angola independence from Portugal on 11 November and formally ended the 13-year-long Angolan War of Independence. The agreement was signed by the Portuguese government, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA), National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and it established a transitional government composed of representatives of those four parties.
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Linjeflyg Flight 618 was a crash of a Vickers 838 Viscount during approach to Stockholm Bromma Airport at 09:05 on 15 January 1977. All twenty-two people on board the aircraft perished when it hit ground at Kälvesta in Stockholm, Sweden. The domestic service from Malmö via Kristianstad, Växjö and Jönköping was operated by Skyline on behalf of Linjeflyg as part of the latter's domestic scheduled services.
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General elections were held in Burma between 1 and 15 January 1978. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Burma Socialist Programme Party as the sole legal party. It therefore won all 464 seats in People's Assembly. Voter turnout was reported to be 93.3%.
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The 1985 Brazilian presidential election was the last to be held indirectly through an electoral college, and the last to be held under the Military Regime. The electoral college system was put in place so that the military elite that controlled the government could secure the election of the candidate chosen by the High Command of the Armed Forces as President. However, in 1985, due to the process of negotiated transition to democracy that started in the late 1970's, the politicians in the electoral college were placed under no coercion, and were allowed to choose the president of their choice.
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Royal Rumble (1989) was the second annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and the first to be held on pay-per-view. It took place on January 15, 1989, at The Summit in Houston, Texas. The main event was the 1989 Royal Rumble match won by Big John Studd, who last eliminated Ted DiBiase to win the match. Featured matches on the undercard were Jim Duggan and The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) versus Dino Bravo and The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jacques and Raymond Rougeau), Rockin' Robin versus Judy Martin for the WWF Women's Championship and King Haku versus Harley Race.
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On 15 January 1991, Elizabeth II, acting as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent creating the Victoria Cross for Australia on the advice of Prime Minister Bob Hawke. This entry records the establishment of an Australian honour, not a presentation of the medal to a recipient.
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A strong earthquake struck Yao’an County in Yunnan early in the morning, following an earlier shock. Homes across several counties were damaged and many residents had to leave their homes.
Yao'an County, Yunnan, China · Disasters · Checked 2026-11-07
Wikipedia launched as an English-language online encyclopedia that readers could edit. Other language editions followed as the project grew.
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Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines (OEF-P) or Operation Freedom Eagle was part of Operation Enduring Freedom and the global war on terror. The Operation targeted the various Jihadist terror groups operating in the country. By 2009, about 600 U.S. military personnel were advising and assisting the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the Southern Philippines.
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On January 15, 2005, Russian security forces carried out two raids on Islamist militants’ safehouses in Dagestan. The operations resulted in deaths among both security personnel and militants. This entry records the raids rather than attributing other earlier attacks to the group as an established fact.
Russia · War & conflict · Checked 2026-10-20
KSW III: Konfrontacja was a mixed martial arts event held on January 15, 2005, in Warsaw, Poland. It was a specific event in the KSW programme, not the entire 2005 season.
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The European Space Agency’s SMART-1 probe detected calcium on the Moon using its X-ray spectrometer. A solar flare provided the radiation that made the measurement possible.
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The Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship by-election of 2006 was held on January 15, 2006 in Taiwan. It was the tenth chairmanship election conducted by the party. In December 2005, chairperson Su Tseng-chang resigned as a result of failing to win ten of the twenty-three positions in the 2005 local elections.
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Presidential elections were held in Finland on 15 and 29 January 2006 which resulted in the re-election of Tarja Halonen as President of Finland for a second six-year term. The first round of voting in Finnish presidential elections always takes place on the third Sunday of January, in this case 15 January 2006.
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A general election was held in Barbados on 15 January 2008. A concurrent referendum to determine whether or not to become a republic was initially planned but that vote was postponed. The Democratic Labour Party (DLP), which had been in opposition since 1994, won with 20 seats to 10 seats for the Barbados Labour Party, led by Prime Minister Owen Arthur. Recounts were held in some constituencies due to close results. On 11 September 2008 Hamilton Lashley MP, for St. Michael South-East announced he would cross the floor and no longer be a member of the Barbados Labour Party, but would instead become an independent.
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The 2008 Michigan Republican presidential primary took place on January 15, 2008. Mitt Romney came in first with 39 percent of the vote, followed by John McCain with 30 percent and Mike Huckabee in third-place with 16 percent. The victory was widely viewed as critical for the Romney campaign, as a loss in Michigan, where his father was governor, would have resulted in a loss of momentum after two losses already in New Hampshire and Iowa.
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The 2008 Michigan Democratic presidential primary took place January 15, 2008. Originally, the state had 156 delegates up for grabs that were to be awarded in the following way: 83 delegates were to be awarded based on the winner in each of Michigan's 15 congressional districts while an additional 45 delegates were to be awarded to the statewide winner.
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US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways domestic flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, that ditched onto the Hudson River shortly after takeoff on January 15, 2009, due to a double engine failure caused by a bird strike. The Airbus A320 operating the flight, registered N106US, struck a flock of Canada geese shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, resulting in a dual engine failure.
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The Chinese dating programme Fei Cheng Wu Rao, known in English as If You Are the One, was first broadcast on January 15, 2010. Produced by Jiangsu Television and recorded in Nanjing, the programme was hosted by Meng Fei and loosely based on the Taken Out format.
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Legislative elections were held in Kazakhstan on 15 January 2012. The result was a victory for the Nur Otan party, which won 83 of the 98 seats in the Mäjilis. However, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) stated that the election "did not meet fundamental principles of democratic elections." The elections marked the first time that the second-placed party would gain parliamentary seats irrespective of whether it cleared the 7% electoral threshold.
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The Badrashin railway accident took place near Badrashin station in Giza, Egypt, on 15 January 2013. A train en route to Cairo from Sohag derailed, leaving at least 19 people dead and 120 injured. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi visited victims of the crash on 15 January, pledging to hold those responsible to account. Meanwhile, witnesses said the last carriage of the train jumped the tracks and crashed into another train parked nearby.
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UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Philippou (also known as UFC Fight Night 35) was a mixed martial arts event held on January 15, 2014, at The Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth, Georgia. The event was broadcast live on Fox Sports 1, and was a live lead in to the pilot episode of The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia.
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The 2014 Karlanyurt clash was an operation by the Russian police to clear a suspected house of militants. At least seven people died in the operation, including three police officers and four militants.
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The Swiss National Bank discontinued its minimum exchange rate of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro. It also lowered the interest rate on certain sight deposits to minus 0.75 percent. The decision caused sharp movements in currency markets.
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On 15 January 2016, Al-Shabaab attacked a Kenyan-run African Union mission base at El Adde in Somalia’s Gedo region. The attack caused heavy losses. This entry does not present disputed casualty estimates as a confirmed total.
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On January 15, 2016, unknown militants ambushed Malian forces near Wanna, in Goundam Cercle, Mali.
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The Wikipedia Library launched an online campaign asking librarians around the world to improve Wikipedia articles by adding reliable references. The first campaign ran from January 15 through January 23.
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UFC Fight Night: Rodríguez vs. Penn, also known as UFC Fight Night 103, was a mixed martial arts event held on January 15, 2017, at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
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The El Junquito raid (codenamed Operation Gideon) was a police and military raid that occurred on 15 January 2018 in El Junquito, Capital District, Venezuela, which resulted in the death of rebel Óscar Alberto Pérez and members of his movement.
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A winding-up order put Carillion into compulsory liquidation. The company had held hundreds of public-sector construction and services contracts.
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On January 15, 2019, a coordinated attack began at the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi, Kenya. A suicide bombing was followed by gunfire from other attackers associated with Al-Shabaab. The attack continued into January 16. This entry records its opening day.
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On 15 January 2019, the United Kingdom House of Commons rejected Theresa May’s proposed European Union withdrawal agreement by 432 votes to 202, a margin of 230. The vote concerned the agreement; it did not itself remove the government from office.
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Laboratory testing confirmed the infection in a resident of Kanagawa Prefecture who had recently returned from Wuhan. Japan’s health ministry issued a public statement the next day.
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A moment magnitude (Mw) 6.2 earthquake struck Majene Regency in West Sulawesi, Indonesia, on 15 January 2021, at 02:28 WITA (18:28 UTC). The reverse faulting shock initiated at 18.0 km (11.2 mi) depth with an epicenter inland, located 32 km (20 mi) south of Mamuju. It was preceded by a Mw 5.7 foreshock several hours prior.
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LFA 97: Browne vs. Estrázulas took place on January 15, 2021, at Hartman Arena in Park City, Kansas, United States, and aired on UFC Fight Pass. Nick Browne defeated Arthur Estrázulas by unanimous decision after five rounds to win the vacant LFA lightweight title.
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The 26th Kolkata International Film Festival ended on January 15, 2021, with an outdoor closing ceremony where the competition awards were announced.
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UFC on ESPN: Kattar vs. Chikadze (also known as UFC on ESPN 32 and UFC Vegas 46) was a mixed martial arts event produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship that took place on January 15, 2022 at the UFC Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada, part of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, United States.
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In December 2021, an eruption began on Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. The eruption reached a very large and powerful climax nearly four weeks later, on 15 January 2022. Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai is 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Tongatapu, the country's main island, and is part of the highly active Tonga–Kermadec Islands volcanic arc, a subduction zone extending from New Zealand to Fiji.
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KSW 66: Ziółkowski vs. Mańkowski was a mixed martial arts event held on January 15, 2022, at Netto Arena in Szczecin, Poland.
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The 2023 Karachi local government elections were held in Karachi, Pakistan on 15 January 2023 to elect members of local councils. These members would then elect the Mayor of Karachi (2023-2026). These elections were the 3rd Karachi local government elections.
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The 2023 Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship election was held on 15 January 2023 to elect the new chairperson of the party. Vice President Lai Ching-te was unopposed and elected to succeed President Tsai Ing-wen, who resigned after the party's poor showing in the 2022 local elections.
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Yeti Airlines Flight 691 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight flown by Yeti Airlines from Kathmandu to Pokhara in Nepal. On 15 January 2023, the ATR 72 being operated on the route stalled and crashed while landing at Pokhara, killing all 68 passengers and 4 crew members on board. The investigation revealed that Captain Kamal KC had accidentally feathered the engines, causing a loss of thrust.
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The 2023 Supercopa de España final was a football match that decided the winner of the 2023 Supercopa de España, the 39th edition of the annual Spanish football super cup competition. The match was played on 15 January 2023 at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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The 2023 Supercopa de Chile (known as the Supercopa Easy 2023 for sponsorship purposes) was the eleventh edition of the Supercopa de Chile, competition organised by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP). The match was played by the 2022 Chilean Primera División champions Colo-Colo and the 2022 Copa Chile champions Magallanes on 15 January 2023 at Estadio Sausalito in Viña del Mar.
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At the close of its sixth general assembly in Madrid, Ciudadanos presented a new leadership team led by Patricia Guasp and Adrián Vázquez and unveiled an updated party identity.
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The 2024 Iowa Libertarian presidential caucuses were held on January 15, 2024, as part of the 2024 Libertarian primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 2022 U.S. Senate candidate Chase Oliver from Georgia won the non-binding preferential vote with 42.7% of the vote, however, he only received 38 votes.
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The 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses were held on January 15, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 40 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a proportional basis. As in past primary cycles, the Iowa caucuses were the first-in-the-nation Republican presidential nominating contest.
Iowa County, Iowa, United States · Iowa, United States · Politics & society · Checked 2026-09-24
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