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'''January 15'''
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'''January 15''' in history:
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* 69, Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome,
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but only rules for three months before committing suicide
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* 1759, the British Museum opens
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* 1870, a political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United
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States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead
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Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly)
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* 1885, Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake
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* 1892, James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball
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* 1936, the first building to be completely covered in glass is
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completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois
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Glass
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Company)
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* 1943, the world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated
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in Arlington, Virginia
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* 1967, in the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the
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Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
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* 1970, Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya
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* 1973, during the Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations,
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President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension
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of
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offensive action in North Vietnam
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* 1976, President Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is
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sentenced to life in prison
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* 1991, the United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces
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from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of
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Operation Desert Storm
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* 2003, Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory as
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the
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Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon
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characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars
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* 2005, an intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system.
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ALSO: ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium,
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aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon
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* 2007, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and
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half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief
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judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq
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[[Category:January]][[Category:Days of the Year]]

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