Tukuk-OS📅 January 15
23 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on January 15? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 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).
US Airways Flight 1549Canada gooseStandard instrument departure
- 2001 — The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.
- 1991 — The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted, making Australia the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
Victoria Cross for AustraliaCommonwealth realmVictoria Cross
- 1981 — The American serial police-procedural television show Hill Street Blues aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
- 1975 — Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
- 1974 — American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.
- 1970 — The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1967 — The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
Green Bay PackersKansas City ChiefsProfessional American football championship games
- 1962 — The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
- 1951 — Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commander of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
- 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.
- 1937 — Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
- 1934 — At least 10,700 people died when a magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.
- 1933 — A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
- 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.
- 1910 — Construction was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
- 1885 — Wilson Bentley (pictured) took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1865 — American Civil War: The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy.
- 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.
- 1815 — War of 1812: The American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
Births
- 2004 — Grace VanderWaal, American singer-songwriter
- 2002 — Tim Stützle, German ice hockey player
- 2000 — Triston Casas, American baseball player
- 1998 — Alexandra Eade, Australian artistic gymnast
- 1998 — Ben Godfrey, English footballer
- 1998 — Chloe Kelly, English footballer
- 1996 — Dove Cameron, American actress and singer
- 1996 — Deebo Samuel, American football player
- 1994 — Eric Dier, English footballer
- 1993 — Kadeem Allen, American basketball player
- 1992 — Joël Veltman, Dutch footballer
- 1992 — Joshua King, Norwegian footballer
Deaths
- 2025 — Paul Danan, English actor and television personality (born 1978)
- 2025 — David Lynch, American television and film director, visual artist and musician, complications from emphysema (born 1946)
- 2025 — Melba Montgomery, American country music singer-songwriter (born 1938)
- 2025 — Linda Nolan, Irish singer and actress (born 1959)
- 2022 — Alexa McDonough, first female politician to lead a major provincial political party in Canada, former leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (born 1944)
- 2020 — Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1944)
- 2020 — Lloyd Cowan, British athlete and coach (born 1962)
- 2019 — Carol Channing, American actress (born 1921)
- 2019 — Ida Kleijnen, Dutch chef (born 1936)
- 2018 — Dolores O'Riordan, Irish pop singer (born 1971)
- 2017 — Jimmy Snuka, Fijian professional wrestler (born 1943)
- 2016 — Francisco X. Alarcón, American poet and educator (born 1954)
Observances & holidays
- Arbor Day (Egypt)
- Armed Forces Remembrance Day (Nigeria)
- Army Day (India)
- Christian feast day: Abeluzius (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
- Christian feast day: Arnold Janssen
- Christian feast day: Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (one of Martyr Saints of China)
- Christian feast day: Ita
- Christian feast day: Our Lady of the Poor
- Christian feast day: Macarius of Egypt (Western Christianity)
- Christian feast day: Maurus and Placidus (Order of Saint Benedict)
- Christian feast day: Paul the Hermit
- Christian feast day: January 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- John Chilembwe Day (Malawi)
- Korean Alphabet Day (North Korea)
- Ocean Duty Day (Indonesia)
- Teacher's Day (Venezuela)
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