January 15th, 1976

Born on January 15th, 1976

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What happened on January 15th, 1976?

January 15th, 1976

Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford

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, 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.

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 a magnitude-8.0 earthquake 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 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.

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

Born on January 15th, 1976

50

Florentin Petre

Romanian footballer

*January 15th, 1976, Bucharest

50

Doug Gottlieb

American basketball player

*January 15th, 1976, Milwaukee

50

Andreas Klier

German road bicycle racer (1976-)

*January 15th, 1976, Munich

Same year
Born in 1976

49

Abiy Ahmed

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

50

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

50

Damien Leith

Irish-Australian singer–songwriter

*January 18th, 1976, Dublin

50

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

50

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

50

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

50

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

49

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

50

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

49

Giorgio Galimberti

Italian tennis player

*September 5th, 1976, Milan

50

Daniel Ernemann

German association football player and manager

*February 18th, 1976, Amberg

50

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

50

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

50

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Castleknock

49

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

50

Yuval Noah Harari

Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers

*February 24th, 1976, Kiryat Ata

49

Ryan Kwanten

Australian actor and comedian (born 1976)

*November 28th, 1976, Sydney

49

Ronaldo

Brazilian former association football player (born 1976)

*September 22nd, 1976, Itaguaí

50

Patrick Vieira

French association football manager (born 1976)

*June 23rd, 1976, Dakar

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, 1976
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 1976 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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