Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 15

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  British Museum, London
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  Aerial view of the Pentagon
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  The British Museum
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  Snowflake photo taken by Wilson Bentley

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Blurb	Reason
Jallikattu in India;	{{cleanup-rewrite}}
John Chilembwe Day in Malawi	{{no footnotes}}
Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea	{{unreferenced}}
1919 – Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.	both {{refimprove}}
1947 – The brutalized corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.	{{unreferenced section}}
1967 – The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.	refimprove
1974 – American serial killer Dennis Rader blinded, tortured, and killed his first three victims, earning him the nickname "BTK killer".	refimprove
1999 – Yugoslav forces massacred 45 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Račak, one of the main causes of the subsequent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.	cleanup required, neutrality issues

Eligible

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.

1815 – War of 1812: 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.

1885 – American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.

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.

1910 – Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming was completed.

1943 – The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.

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.

2009 – After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada Geese during its initial climb out from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. Template:Divhide January 15: Pongal (Tamils, 2012); Armed Forces Day in Nigeria; Army Day in India

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.

1919 – A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets (damage pictured), killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.

1975 – Portugal signed the Alvor Agreement with UNITA, the MPLA, and the FNLA, ending the Angolan War of Independence.

1993 – Salvatore "The Beast" Riina, one of the most powerful members of the Sicilian Mafia, was arrested after three decades as a fugitive.

அண்மைய நாட்கள்: January 14 – January 16 – January 17

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