On This Day:
Sunday January 15, 2012
This is the 15th day of the year, with 351 days remaining
in 2012.
Fact of the Day: ants
Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards,
like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Macarius the Elder, St. Isidore of
Alexandria, St. Bonitus or Bonet, St. Ita, and St. John
Calybites.
Guatemala:
Feast of Christ of Esquipulas or Black Christ Festival.
Japan:
Coming of Age Day.
Quarterly estimated U.S. federal income tax due date (other
dates are April, June, September).
Events
1535
- Henry
VIII assumed the title "Supreme Head of the Church."
1559
- England's
Queen
Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster
Abbey.
1759
- The British
Museum opened, at Montague House, Bloomsbury,
London.
1777
- The people of New
Connecticut declared their independence; the tiny
republic later became the state of Vermont.
1844
- The University
of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
1870
- The Democratic party was represented as a donkey for the
first time in a cartoon by Thomas
Nast in "Harper's
Weekly."
1892
- The rules of basketball were published, in Springfield,
Massachusetts.
1919
- Ignace
Jan Paderewski (also a pianist) became the first
premier of the newly created republic of Poland.
1922
- The Irish
Free State was established.
1927
- The Dumbarton
Bridge opened in San
Francisco carrying the first automobile traffic across
the bay.
1929
- The Kellogg-Briand
pact was ratified by the U.S. Senate,
an agreement for the peaceful settlement of international
disputes.
1943
- Work was completed on the Pentagon,
the headquarters of the U.S. Department
of Defense.
1962
- The centigrade
scale or Celsius
scale was used for the first time in British
Meteorological Office weather forecasts. It was invented 200
years earlier.
1967
- The Green
Bay Packers of the National
Football League defeated the Kansas
City Chiefs of the American
Football League in the first Super
Bowl, 35-10.
1970
- Muammar
al-Qaddafi, Libyan army captain who deposed King
Idris in September 1969, was proclaimed premier of Libya
by the so-called General People's Congress.
1970
- The Republic
of Biafra, a breakaway state of eastern Nigeria,
surrendered to Nigeria
after three years of fighting.
1971
- The Aswan
High Dam, on the Nile
in Egypt
and financed by the USSR,
was opened.
1973
- President Richard
Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive
action in North
Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1974
- "Happy
Days" premiered on television.
1981
- The police series "Hill
Street Blues" premiered on TV.
1992
- The European
Community recognized the republics of Croatia
and Slovenia,
ending the Yugoslav
federation.
Births
1622
- Jean
Baptiste MoliÈre (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), French
playwright.
1870
- Pierre
S. DuPont, American industrialist.
1908
- Edward
Teller, Hungarian-born American scientist known as the
"Father of the Hydrogen Bomb."
1929
- Martin
Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader,
minister, and winner of the 1964 Nobel
Peace Prize.
Deaths
1993
- Sammy
Cahn, American lyricist.
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