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, 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, 1976

48

Jimmy Smagula

American actor in television, film and theatre

*January 15th, 1976, Lyndhurst

48

Andreas Klier

German road bicycle racer (1976-)

*January 15th, 1976, Munich

48

Alexander Korolyuk

Russian ice hockey player

*January 15th, 1976, Moscow

48

Florentin Petre

Romanian footballer

*January 15th, 1976, Bucharest

48

Iryna Lishchynska

Athletics competitor

*January 15th, 1976, Makiivka

48

Doug Gottlieb

American basketball player

*January 15th, 1976, Milwaukee

48

Mamen Mendizabal

Spanish journalist and presenter

*January 15th, 1976, Madrid

48

Scott Murray

Scottish rugby union player

*January 15th, 1976, Musselburgh

48

Dorian Missick

American actor

*January 15th, 1976, East Orange

39

Drago Grubelnik

Slovenian alpine skier

*January 15th, 1976, Radlje ob Dravi †November 17th, 2015, Murnau am Staffelsee

48

M. Raja

Indian filmmaker and screenwriter

*January 15th, 1976, Madurai

48

Meredith Bishop

American actress

*January 15th, 1976, Los Angeles

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Who's birthday is on January 15th?

28

Dove Cameron

American actress and singer

*January 15th, 1996, Bainbridge Island

47

Giorgia Meloni

Prime Minister of Italy since 2022

*January 15th, 1977, Rome

39

Thilini Jayasinghe

Badminton player

*January 15th, 1985, Peradeniya

30

Myke Towers

Puerto Rican rapper

*January 15th, 1994, Río Piedras

28

Huang Kaixiang

Chinese badminton player

*January 15th, 1996, Nanping

39

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

24

Ikhsan Rumbay

Badminton player

*January 15th, 2000, Tomohon City

49

Mary Pierce

French tennis player

*January 15th, 1975, Montreal

42

Benjamin Agosto

American ice dancer

*January 15th, 1982, Chicago

59

James Nesbitt

Northern Irish actor

*January 15th, 1965, Ballymena

36

Sebastian Langkamp

German footballer

*January 15th, 1988, Speyer

43

Pitbull

American singer, rapper and songwriter

*January 15th, 1981, Miami

30

Eric Dier

English association football player

*January 15th, 1994, Cheltenham

45

Ariella Ferrera

Columbian pornographic actress

*January 15th, 1979, Medellín

65

Josip Juratovic

German politician

*January 15th, 1959, Koprivnica

77

Andrea Martin

American-Canadian actress, singer and comedian

*January 15th, 1947, Portland

49

Sophie Wilmès

Belgian politician, former deputy prime minister of Belgium

*January 15th, 1975, Ixelles - Elsene

67

Mario Van Peebles

American actor

*January 15th, 1957, Mexico City

51

Roberto Fresnedoso

Spanish footballer

*January 15th, 1973, Toledo

46

Franco Pellizotti

Italian road racing cyclist

*January 15th, 1978, Latisana

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47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

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

47

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung City

47

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga City

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

47

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

47

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

47

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

47

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

47

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Dublin

47

Wang Chen

Hong Kong badminton player

*June 21st, 1976, Shanghai

47

Hidetaka Yamada

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1976, Kobe

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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
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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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