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15 January, 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.
15 January, 2007
Comet McNaught makes perigee after coming close to the sun.
15 January, 2005
An intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system.
15 January, 2005
ESAs SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
15 January, 2001
Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
15 January, 1999
The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
15 January, 1993
Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as The Beast, is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
15 January, 1992
The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
15 January, 1991
The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
15 January, 1990
AT&Ts long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
15 January, 1986
The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
15 January, 1986
HBO and Cinemax pay cable television services initiate scrambling of their national satellite feeds on Galaxy 1 with the Videocipher II system.
15 January, 1977
The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Swedens history.
15 January, 1976
Gerald Fords would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
15 January, 1975
Portugal grants independence to Angola.
15 January, 1973
Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
15 January, 1970
After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
15 January, 1970
Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
15 January, 1969
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
15 January, 1967
In the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
15 January, 1966
The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria is overthrown in a military coup.
15 January, 1951
Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
15 January, 1947
The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
15 January, 1943
World War II: The Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal.
15 January, 1943
World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
15 January, 1943
The worlds largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
15 January, 1936
The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
15 January, 1919
The Boston Molasses Disaster kills 21 people.
15 January, 1919
Ignace Paderewski becomes Premier of Poland.
15 January, 1919
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
15 January, 1908
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women.
15 January, 1892
James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
15 January, 1885
Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake.
15 January, 1870
A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harpers Weekly).
15 January, 1865
American Civil War - Fort Fisher North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy .
15 January, 1844
University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
15 January, 1822
Greek War of Independence: Demetrius Ypsilanti is elected president of the legislative assembly.
15 January, 1782
Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
15 January, 1777
American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence.
15 January, 1759
The British Museum opens.
15 January, 1582
Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland.
15 January, 1559
Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
15 January, 69
Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide.

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