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'''January 15'''
'''January 15''' in history:
* 69, Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome,
but only rules for three months before committing suicide
* 1759, the British Museum opens
* 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 Harper's Weekly)
* 1885, Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake
* 1892, James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball
* 1936, the first building to be completely covered in glass is
completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois
Glass
Company)
* 1943, the world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated
in Arlington, Virginia
* 1967, in the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the
Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
* 1970, Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya
* 1973, during the Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations,
President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension
of
offensive action in North Vietnam
* 1976, President Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is
sentenced to life in prison
* 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
* 2003, Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory as
the
Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon
characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars
* 2005, an intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system.
ALSO: ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium,
aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon
* 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
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