Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 15

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  British Museum, London
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  The British Museum
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  Damage caused by the Boston Molasses Disaster
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  Wikipedia home page in February 2001
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  Aerial view of the Pentagon
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  USS President
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  Wilson Bentley taking a photograph of a snowflake
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  Regent's Park skating disaster
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  Fragment of the Derveni papyrus

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Army Day and Jallikattu in India;	Armed Forces Day: refimprove; Jallikattu: refimprove section/convert list to prose
Armed Forces Day in Nigeria;	refimprove
Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea;	refimprove section
Makar Sankranti in India	multiple issues
1759 – The British Museum in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury.	Several unreferenced sections
1777 – The Vermont Republic (the precursor of the present-day U.S. state) declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colony of Quebec, and the U.S. states of New Hampshire and New York.	unreferenced section
1908 – Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine students.	primary sources
1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.	Luxemburg: unreferenced section *rescue started 2022)
1993 – Salvatore Riina, one of the most powerful members of the Sicilian Mafia, was arrested in Palermo after 23 years as a fugitive.	refimprove section
1999 – Yugoslav forces massacred 45 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Račak, one of the main causes of the subsequent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.	outdated
Afonso V of Portugal |b|1432	unreferenced section, refimprove in another section

Eligible

• 1815 – War of 1812: The American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy.
• 1867 – In Regent's Park, London, the ice on the lake broke, plunging skaters into the water and causing 40 deaths from drowning or hypothermia.
• 1910 – Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, then the tallest dam in the world, was completed.
• 1919 – A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets , killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
• 1933 – A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
• 1947 – The mutilated corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
• 1943 – The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.
• 1951 – Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
• 1962 – The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
• 1967 – The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as [[Super Bowl I|Super Template:Nowrap]].
• 1970 – The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
• 1974 – American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.
• 1975 – Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
• 1981 – The American serial police-procedural television show Hill Street Blues aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".

• Born/died this day: | Wang Jingchong |d|950| Philip Livingston |b|1716| Marjorie Fleming |b|1803| Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |b|1812| Friedrich Parrot |d|1841| Wilhelm Marx |b|1863| C. D. Howe |b|1886| Sylvia Lawler |b|1922| Ben Shapiro |b|1984| Bo Yibo |d|2007| David Lynch |d|2025

Notes

• Super Bowl III appears on January 12, so Super Bowl I should not appear in the same year

January 15: John Chilembwe Day in Malawi Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1857 – In British Hong Kong, hundreds of Europeans were non-lethally poisoned by arsenic in bread from a locally owned bakery, leading to geopolitical tension.
• 1885 – Wilson Bentley (pictured) took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.
• 1934 – At least 10,700 people died when a magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.
• 1991 – The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted, making Australia the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
• 2001 – The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.
• 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).