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Day Of The Week: January 15
January 15, 2025 is the 15th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 15
- 588 BC –Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
- 1892 –James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
- 1908 –The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African-American college women.
- 1919 –Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
- 1947 –The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
- 1966 –The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d’état.
- 1967 –The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
- 1993 –Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as “The Beast”, is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive.
- 2005 –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.
Who were born on January 15?
- 1815 –William Bickerton, Mormon prophet (d. 1905)
- 1842 –Josef Breuer, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1925)
- 1869 –Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist (d. 1907)
- 1905 –Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
- 1906 –Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975)
- 1919 –Maurice Herzog, French mountaineer, first to ascend an 8000m peak, Annapurna in 1950
- 1921 –Frank Thornton, English actor
- 1947 –Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
- 1983 –Matic Kralj, Slovenian ice hockey player
- 1987 –Aria C Jalali, American musician
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