January 15th in History
January 15th in History
- 1559: Coronation of British Queen Elizabeth I
- 1922: Irish Free State forms. Revolutionary leader Michael Collins becomes first premier
- 1943: Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
- 1973: President Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
- 1997: American space shuttle Atlantis docks with Russian Mir space station for the first time
January 15th birthdays
- 1622: Molière, French writer
- 1913: Lloyd Bridges, American actor
- 1929: Martin Luther King, US black civil rights campaigner
