15 January - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, January 15 is the day number 15 in a given year. January 15 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
January 15 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 1752 | Tobius Smollett published a leaflet accusing Henry Fielding of plagiarism. |
| 1754 | The riot occurred in Amsterdam on the burial of the Orangeist leader Daniel Rappe. |
| 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. |
| 1759 | The British Museum was established at Monteguve House in London. |
| 1759 | The British Museum opened in Montegu House, London after 6 years of development. |
| 1777 | The Republic of New Connecticut declared its independence from several jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of New Hampshire and New York. |
| 1784 | The Asiatic Society of Bengal was established. |
| 1795 | Legendary Giribayodef, a Russian writer and politician with great expertise in drama writing, was born. |
| 1802 | Kansasburg Academy of Modern Washington and Jefferson College) founded by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. |
| 1815 | War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates. |
| 1826 | The French newspaper "Le Figaro" began publication in Paris as a weekly newspaper. |
| 1839 | El Salvador formally gained independence following the dissolution of the Central American Union. |
| 1854 | German mathematician and physicist Georg Simon Ohm died at the age of 67. |
| 1865 | American Civil War-The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy. |
| 1885 | American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first knownphotograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellowscamera to a microscope. |
| 1889 | The Coca-Cola Company (then the Pemberton Madison Company) was incorporated in Georgia. |
| 1910 | Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam inthe world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming 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. |
| 1926 | Independent India's first Olympic medalist K.D. Jadhav was born. |
| 1931 | An earthquake in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico injured 114. |
| 1933 | A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux. |
| 1934 | An earthquake measuring 8.7 struck India and Nepal. About 11,000 lives were lost in this earthquake. |
| 1937 | Spanish Civil War-Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road. |
| 1943 | The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated. |
| 1943 | Construction of Pentagon, world's largest office building, completed. |
| 1949 | KM Kariyappa became the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. Since then, 15 January has been celebrated as Army Day. |
| 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. |
| 1968 | An earthquake in Sicily killed 380 people and injured around 1,000 people. |
| 1975 | Portugal signed the Alvor Agreement with UNITA, the MPLA, andthe FNLA, ending the Angolan War of Independence. |
| 1981 | Hill Street Blues, one of American television's most critically acclaimed shows, aired its pilot episode, 'Hill Street Station'. |
| 1986 | First Army Commander-in-Chief KM Cariappa retired) was given the rank of Field Marshal. |
| 1991 | Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system. |
| 1993 | Salvatore 'The Beast' Riina, one of the most powerful members of the Sicilian Mafia, was arrested after three decades as a fugitive. |
| 1995 | For NFC championship San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys. |
| 1995 | Southern Alabama and Western Washington begin using new area code 334 and 360 respectively. |
| 1998 | John Glenne, 76 may fly in space again. The NASA of USA has declared this. |
| 2009 | All 155 passengers survived in the US airways plane when it get ditched in the Hudson River. |
| 2009 | After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City, Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. |
| 2010 | An army colonel and a military commander of Bejaija were killed by the Muslim fundamentalists in north Algeria. |
| 2011 | Due to enormous flood in Australia 13,000 properties in rural Victoria was destroyed. |
| 2012 | John Huntsman, a Presidential primary candidate of Republican Party drop out of the race, endorsing Mitt Romney. |
| 2013 | DNA of horse was present in some beef burgers on sales in supermarkets in Ireland and in the UK. This has been found by the Republic of Ireland's Food Authority. |
| 2013 | Ahmed al- Ghazawi, the Egyptian woman lawyer was sentenced to prison for five years and 300 hundred lashes for possession of Xanax anti-anxiety pills. |
| 2013 | A rocket attack at Syria's Aleppo University killed 83 people and injured 150. |
| 2014 | There is a prediction of the World Bank global forest that there is an increase in growth to 3.2 percent from 2.4 percent in 2013. |
| 2016 | The terrorist attack at the hotel in Ogadogu in the West African country of Burkina Faso killed 28 people and injured 56 people. |
Famous Birthdays of January 15:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1879 | Mazo de la Roche / Author / Canada |
| 1958 | Boris Tadić / Politician / Serbia |
| 1994 | Jordy Croux / Footballer / Belgium |
| 1850 | Sofia Kovalevskaya / Mathematician / Sweden |
| 1859 | Archibald Peake / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1971 | Regina King / Actress / United States of America |
| 1945 | David Pleat / Footballer / United Kingdom |
| 1989 | Keiffer Hubbell / Dancer / United States of America |
| 1795 | Alexander Griboyedov / Composer / Russia |
| 1956 | Mayawati / Politician / India |
| 1922 | Eric Willis / Politician / Australia |
| 1988 | Aija Putniņa / Basketball Player / Latvia |
| 1869 | Stanisław Wyspiański / Poet / Poland |
| 1973 | Essam El-Hadary / Footballer / Egypt |
| 1902 | Nâzım Hikmet / Poet / Greece |
| 1949 | Ian Stewart / Runner / Scotland |
| 1943 | George Ambrum / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1982 | Brett Lebda / Ice Hockey Player / United States of America |
| 1961 | Serhiy N. Morozov / Footballer / Ukraine |
| 1933 | Frank Bough / Journalist / United Kingdom |
| 1925 | Ruth Slenczynska / Composer / United States of America |
| 1913 | Eugène Brands / Painter / Netherlands |
| 1985 | Enrico Patrizio / Rugby Player / Italy |
| 1716 | Philip Livingston / Politician / United States of America |
| 1921 | Babasaheb Bhosale / Politician / India |
| 1917 | K. A. Thangavelu / Actor / India |
| 1885 | Lorenz Böhler / Physician / Austria |
| 1841 | Frederick Stanley / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1957 | Andrew Tyrie / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1956 | Vitaly Kaloyev / Architect / Russia |
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