January 15th, 1949

Born on January 15th, 1949

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What happened on January 15th, 1949?

January 15th, 1949

Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist government.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War

What else happened on January 15th?

January 15th, 1970

The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.

January 15th, 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).

January 15th, 1975

Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.

January 15th, 1974

American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.

January 15th, 1967

The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.

January 15th, 1962

The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.

January 15th, 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.

January 15th, 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.

January 15th, 1943

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

January 15th, 1937

Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.

January 15th, 1934

At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering 8.0 Mw struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.

January 15th, 1933

A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.

January 15th, 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.

January 15th, 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on January 15th

Born on January 15th, 1949

75

Franz Xaver Bogner

German director and screenwriter

*January 15th, 1949, Pliening

75

John Podesta

American political consultant (born 1949)

*January 15th, 1949, Chicago

75

Manolo el del bombo

Spanish football fan

*January 15th, 1949, San Carlos del Valle

75

Dan Ar Braz

French guitarist

*January 15th, 1949, Quimper

75

Götz-Werner Fromberg

German civil law notary and lawyer

*January 15th, 1949, Hanover

75

Howard Twitty

Professional golfer

*January 15th, 1949, Phoenix

75

Peter Vonhof

German racing cyclist

*January 15th, 1949, Berlin

75

Ian Stewart

Scottish long-distance runner

*January 15th, 1949, Birmingham

49

Peter Terrid

German author (1949-1998)

*January 15th, 1949, Uerdingen †December 1st, 1998, Porz

63

Alasdair Liddell

British health administrator

*January 15th, 1949, Pitlochry †December 31st, 2012, London

52

Luis Alvarado

Puerto Rican baseball player

*January 15th, 1949, Lajas †March 20th, 2001, Lajas

61

Götz Kauffmann

Austrian actor, author and cabaret artist

*January 15th, 1949, Vienna †January 26th, 2010, Vienna

65

Arnold Beck

Liechtensteiner alpine skier

*January 15th, 1949, Triesenberg †July 10th, 2014

75

Panos Mihalopoulos

Greek actor

*January 15th, 1949, Kalamata

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28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1929–1968)

*January 15th, 1929, Atlanta †April 4th, 1968, Memphis

77

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

30

Myke Towers

Puerto Rican rapper

*January 15th, 1994, Río Piedras

39

Thilini Jayasinghe

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1985, Peradeniya

28

Huang Kaixiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

77

Martin Chalfie

American scientist

*January 15th, 1947, Chicago

24

Ikhsan Rumbay

Badminton player

*January 15th, 2000, Tomohon City

65

Josip Juratovic

German politician

*January 15th, 1959, Koprivnica

67

Mario Van Peebles

American actor

*January 15th, 1957, Mexico City

59

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

47

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

74

Marius Trésor

French association football player

*January 15th, 1950, Sainte-Anne

84

Marcell Restle

German art historian of byzantine era (1932-2016)

*January 15th, 1932, Bad Waldsee †January 25th, 2016, Bad Waldsee

89

Günther Schellong

German university teacher

*January 15th, 1926, Kiel †October 10th, 2015, Münster

79

Per Ahlmark

Swedish politician and writer (1939-2018)

*January 15th, 1939, Stockholm †June 8th, 2018, Skarpnäck

52

Gamal Abdel Nasser

President of Egypt from 1956 to 1970

*January 15th, 1918, Alexandria †September 28th, 1970, Cairo

36

Sebastian Langkamp

German footballer

*January 15th, 1988, Speyer

66

Boris Tadić

3rd President of Serbia

*January 15th, 1958, Sarajevo

42

Benjamin Agosto

American ice dancer

*January 15th, 1982, Chicago

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75

Joachim Witt

German rock musician

*February 22nd, 1949, Hamburg

74

Rudy Hartono

Indonesian badminton player

*August 18th, 1949, Surabaya

75

Åse Kleveland

Swedish-Norwegian singer and politician

*March 18th, 1949, Stockholm

70

Jahn Teigen

Norwegian singer, musician, and comedian (1949–2020)

*September 27th, 1949, Tønsberg Municipality †February 24th, 2020, Ystad

74

David Rubenstein

American businessman

*August 11th, 1949, Baltimore

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

74

Egon Flaig

German university teacher, Historian of classical antiquity and writer

*May 16th, 1949, Oberstenfeld

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

74

Odaline de la Martinez

American conductor and composer

*October 31st, 1949, Matanzas

74

Gertrúd Ladányi

Badminton player

*May 3rd, 1949, Esztergom

66

Papa Wemba

Congolese singer and musician

*June 14th, 1949, Lubefu †April 24th, 2016, Abidjan

67

Denis Johnson

American writer (novel, drama, poetry, essay) (1949-2017)

*July 1st, 1949, Munich †May 24th, 2017, Sea Ranch

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

74

Sverre Årnes

Norwegian writer

*May 14th, 1949, Surnadal Municipality

74

Gloria Gaynor

American singer

*September 7th, 1949, Newark

75

Jessica Lange

American actress

*April 20th, 1949, Cloquet

67

Carlos Slepoy

Argentinian lawyer (1949-2017)

*October 2nd, 1949, Buenos Aires †April 17th, 2017, Madrid

68

Stanley Greene

American photographer (1949-2017)

*February 14th, 1949, Brooklyn †May 19th, 2017, Paris

74

Bruce Springsteen

American rock singer (born 1949)

*September 23rd, 1949, Long Branch

74

Benjamin Netanyahu

Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–2021, 2022–present)

*October 21st, 1949, Tel Aviv

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on January 15th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, The second day of the sidereal winter solstice festivals in India) which are celebrated on January 15th.

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Born on January 15th, 1949
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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1949 is a normal year and no leap year.

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