Today in history
January 15 is the 15th day of the Gregorian calendar (common year) year, with 350 days remaining until the end of the year (351 days in leap years)
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memorabilia
16th century
1559: Crowned Queen Elizabeth I.
1582: Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
18th century
1759: The British Museum in Bloomsbury, London, England, is officially opened and later becomes one of the largest museums in the world.
20th century
1913: Li Liejun resists Yuan Shikai.
1915: German Zeppelin bombs Britain for the first time.
1916: Hungry people make a big fuss in Shanghai.
1918: China's War of Protection of the French: Cen Chunxuan establishes the Southwest Provinces Federation in Guangzhou, appointing himself as the general representative of the Council and excluding Sun Yat-sen.
1919: German Marxist politicians Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are killed in Berlin after being tortured by soldiers of the Freedom Corps.
1919: Molasses incident in Boston, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1925: The Nationalist government in Guangzhou, China, with the students of the Whampoa Military Academy as the main force, began the Eastern Expedition against Chen Jiongming.
1934: The Fifth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China is held in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, where Mao Zedong is elected to the Politburo for the first time.
1935: The Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China convenes the Zunyi Conference during the Long March, establishing Mao Zedong's leadership position in the CCP.
1943: World War II: End of the Guadalcanal Campaign and the withdrawal of Japanese troops from the Solomon Islands.
1943: The Pentagon, the world's largest office building by construction area, is completed in Arlington County, Virginia.
1949: The Chinese People's Liberation Army captures Tianjin, and 130,000 people of the Republic of China garrison are completely annihilated.
1949: Frank Zamboni invents the world's first road de-icing machine.
1967: The National American Football League hosts the Super Bowl for the first time at the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
1970: A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Tonghai County, Yunnan Province, people's Republic of China, killing at least 15,621 people and causing economic damage of $5 million to US$25 million, affecting more than 8,781 square kilometers.
1971: The Aswan Dam in Egypt is officially put into operation. The dam was built with Soviet assistance and was unveiled by then-Egyptian President Sadat and then Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Kosygin.
1971: Idi Amin staged a coup d'état to seize power in Uganda.
1971: The Beijing Subway, the first subway system in Greater China, is in operation.
1975: Angola becomes independent.
1982: China's first synthetic yeast alanine transfer ribonucleic acid.
1989: China publishes a draft Hong Kong Basic Law.
1991: Queen Elizabeth II of Australia signs a patent licence allowing the creation of the victorian cross of Australia.
1992: The first RMB special stock (B shares) issued by China: B shares issued by Shanghai Vacuum Electronic Equipment Co., Ltd. were subscribed in Hong Kong, Shanghai and other places.
1998: Heavy rains in Kenya.
2000: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Yao'an County, Yunnan.
21st century
2001: Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia based on Wiki technology, is officially established and launched.
2009: US Airways Flight 1549 was hit by a Canadian black goose during take-off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, causing the twin engines to stall at the same time, the plane lost power, the crew made a successful landing on the Hudson River, and all passengers and crew members survived, the event is also known as the Hudson River Miracle.
2010: China Jiangsu Satellite TV's "Do Not Disturb" program was launched.
2019: Microsoft stops security patching and maintenance for existing versions and devices for Windows 10 mobile devices.
2020: About 1,500 bakers and chefs in India spent nearly 4 hours baking a cake up to 6.5 kilometers long and weighing about 27,000 kilograms, breaking the Guinness World Record.
born
5 BC: Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han, founding emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty (died in 57)
1342: Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, France (d. 1404)
1432: Alfonso V, King of Portugal (d. 1481)
- 1481 – Ashikaga Yoshisumi, 11th Shogun of Muromachi, Japan (d. 1511)
1539 – Toshiya Maeda, Japanese warlord of the Sengoku period, ancestor of kaga domain (died 1599)
1622– Molière, French comedy writer, actor, founder of ballet comedy (d. 1673)
Franz Gripazer, Austrian playwright and poet ( 1872 )
1809 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French economist, first self-proclaimed anarchist (1865)
1821: Lafayette McClos, Confederate general during the American Civil War (died 1897)
1841: Frederick Stanley, British Colonial Secretary and Governor-General of Canada (1908)
1842: Mary of The Cross, founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of St. Joseph, Australia, and the first saint in Australia to be canonized by the Catholic Church (died in 1909). Joseph Broyer, Austrian psychologist (died 1925)
1850 Mikhail Eminescu, Romanian poet (died 1889). Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (died 1891)
1858: Archibal Gracie IV, American writer, officer, amateur historian, real estate investor, titanic survivor (died 1912)
1866 Natan Sedbroom, Swedish priest, winner of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
1868: Stanislav Wispiński, Polish playwright, painter, poet, interior and furniture designer (d. 1907)
1869: Ruby Laffon, American politician, 43rd Governor of Kentucky (died 1941)
1872 Kozoev Arsen, Ossetian philologist and political commentator of the Russian Empire (died 1944)
1882: Princess Margaret of Connaught, Princess of England and Crown Prince Gustav VI of Sweden (d. 1920)
1885: Huang Yuansheng, Chinese journalist and political commentator (d. 1915)
1891: Osip Mandelstam, Soviet poet and critic (died 1938)
1895 – Arturi Ilmari Vertanin, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1945 (d. 1973)
1897: Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet and writer (1931)
1901: Frank Zamboni, inventor of the de-icing machine (d. 1988)
1902: Saud bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, former King and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia (died 1969)
1906: Aristotle Onassis, Greek ship king (1975)
1908: Edward Taylor, American physicist known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb" (died in 2003)
1912: Michel Debrece, first Prime Minister of the French Fifth Republic, known as the father of the current French Constitution (died 1996)
1918: Jamal Abdul-Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt (died 1970). Figueredo, 33rd President of Brazil (died 1999)
1919: Maurice Elzo, French mountaineer and sports official (died 2012)
1923: Lee Teng-hui, 7th-9th head of the Taiwan region of the People's Republic of China (died in 2020). Wang Shuozhen is a Chinese astrophysicist
1928: Li Jieming, former CIA intelligence analyst and diplomat (died 2009)
1929: Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the American human rights movement (died 1968)
1937 Yohei Kono, Japanese politician Margaret O'Brien is an American actress
1939: Don Corgis, former professional basketball player in the NBA (died 2021)
1941: Shi Mingde, Taiwanese politician, Chairman of the 6th Democratic Progressive Party
1943: Kiki Shirin, Japanese actress (died 2018)
1945: Ke Junxiong, Taiwanese actor (died 2015). Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent, member of the British Royal Family, daughter-in-law of Prince George
1950 : Marius Tressol, French footballer Choe Yong-hae is a North Korean politician
1954: Ba Liang Jin, Hong Kong actor, Tarak Diab, Tunisian footballer
1955: Chen Bozheng, Taiwanese actor. Makoto Tanaka is a Japanese female voice actress. Andres Gulski is a German photographer
1956– Vitaly Karoyev, Russian architect
1957: Cai Yanming, founder of Want Want Group
1958: Boris Tadić, 3rd President of Serbia
1961: Lam Yuen Chun, Hong Kong actress
1963: Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, information security expert, and writer
1965: James Nesbitt, British actor
1966: Banu Priya, Indian actress
1967: Lau Kam Ling, Hong Kong actress
1968: Onnaki Udangarin, Duke of Parma, Spain, Chad Lowe, American actor
1970: Syn McMahan, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Actor and Screenwriter of World Wrestling Entertainment Global Media
1971: Lim Mei Ching, Malaysian model, actor and entrepreneur, Yu Feihong, Chinese actress
1972: Tao Hong, Chinese film and television actor, former synchronized swimmer
1974: Weng Jiasui, winner of Miss Hong Kong 1997
1975: Marie Pierce, French tennis player
1977: Ip Chun Tseng, Malaysian actor, host and singer
1979 – Zhu Xiaotian, Taiwanese actor, Drew Bris, American football player, Martin Bordoff, Bulgarian footballer
1980: Matt Halleday, American baseball player
1981 – Al-Haji Dioff, Senegalese footballer, hip-hop bull terrier, American rapper
1982 – Chen Jianghe, Taiwanese baseball player, Kang Se-jeong, South Korean actress and singer
1983 – Jemayne Pennant, English footballer, Hugo Viana, Portuguese footballer
1984: Leung Lai-ying, Hong Kong actress, Ren Eun-ching, Korean actress, Dai Yong-yeon, Japanese voice actress
1985: René Adler, German footballer
1986 Jesse Scrumm, American actress
1988: Kim Min-joon, member of the Korean boy idol group 2PM, Ske rex, American record jockey
1990: Fernando Frestieri, Italian footballer, Hu Ran, Chinese actress
1991: Marc Bartra, Spanish footballer, Aisha Khan, Pakistani actress, Xuanlu, Chinese actress
1992 – Nikola Zochensen, Danish footballer
1993: Fu Jiajun, Hong Kong male singer
1994: Omar Haribing, Syrian footballer, Choi Hyung-wan, member of the South Korean boy idol group MONSTA X
1995: Guan Hong, Taiwanese actor
1998: Ben Godfrey, English footballer, Joo-yeon, member of the South Korean boy idol group THE BOYZ
2000: Wachirawi Jean Viva, Thai actor
die
69: Garba, Roman Emperor (born 3 BC)
- 936: Raoul I, King of West Francia (c. 890)
1595: Murad III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1546)
- 1643 - Tachibana Muneshige, Daimyo of the Edo period , Japan ( b. 1567 )
1919: Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German Marxist politician (born 1870), Carl Liebknecht, German politician (born 1871)
1950: Henry Arnold, five-star general in the United States Air Force (born 1886)
1971: Gai Mingtian, Chinese Peking Opera artist (b. 1888)
2006: Jaber Ahmed Al-Sabah, 13th Emir of Kuwait (born 1928)
2007: Bo Yibo, Chinese politician, former Vice Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (born 1908), Gu Chonglian, military and political official of the Republic of China, former Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Republic of China (born 1931), Barzan Ibrahim Tikrit, former director of the Iraqi Intelligence Bureau (born 1951)
2008: Brad Blue Buddha, American actor (born 1982)
2014: John Dobson, American astronomer, inventor of the Dubson telescope (born 1915)
2016: Cai Chenyang, Taiwanese entrepreneur, second generation of Cathay Pacific Group, founder of Hanshe Group (born in 1949)
2019: Bai Birch, Chinese writer (born 1930)
2020 Christopher Tolkien, British Editor, Scholar, J. Tolkien R· Youngest son of R. Tolkien (born 1924)