Today in History
15 January
Thomas Crofton Croker
A portrait by an unknown artist in
the National Gallery, London
Queen Elizabeth I
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| 1346 Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand | ||
| 1432 Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481) was born | ||
| 1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church | ||
| 1552 France signs secret treaty with German Protestants | ||
| 1562 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens | ||
| 1582 Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic | ||
| 1586 Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army | ||
| 1559 Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey in London, England. | ||
| 1716 Philip Livingston, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence) was born | ||
| 1752 Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism | ||
| 1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam |
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| 1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London | ||
| 1762 Fraunces Tavern opens in NYC | ||
| 1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England | ||
| 1780 Continental Congress establishes court of appeals | ||
| 1798 Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller (Fairy legends) was born | ||
| 1812 Peter C Asbjírnsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer was born | ||
| 1831 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, S | ||
| 1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego | ||
| 1851 Gen Arista replaces Mexican Pres Herrera | Thomas Crofton Croker |
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| 1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis | A portrait by an unknown artist in |
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| 1870 The donkey first was used as a symbol of the Democratic Party | ||
| 1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue | ||
| 1895 Piotr Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia. | ||
| 1915 Japan claims economic control of China | ||
| 1919 Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires | ||
| 1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die | ||
| 1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition | ||
| 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) | ||
| 1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught | ||
| 1943 World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed | ||
| 1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany | ||
| 1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England |
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| 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp | ||
| 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin | ||
| 1951 A volcanic eruption killed up to 5,000 people at Mount Lamington, New Guinea. | ||
| 1953 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Wash DC station | ||
| 1953 GDR Min of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" | ||
| 1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum | ||
| 1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic | ||
| 1962 Tennis star Rod Laver defeated Roy Emerson to win the Australian Open, beginning his run to win all four of the sport's major events. | ||
| 1969 Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union | Queen Elizabeth I |
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| 1970 Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria | ||
| 1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt | ||
| 1973 Pres Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam | ||
| 1975 Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence | ||
| 1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) | ||
| 1976 Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for an attempt on the life of U.S. President Gerald Ford. | ||
| 1978 Two co-eds were murdered in their sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Serial killer Ted Bundy later was convicted of the crime. | ||
| 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery & Fred Chapell | ||
| 1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years | ||
| 1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland) | ||
| 1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait | ||
| 1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia | ||
| 1993 Lyricist Sammy Kahn, who wrote the words to "Call Me Irresponsible" among other hits, died in Los Angeles, California, at age 79 | ||
| 1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist | ||
| 1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again | ||