On This Day:
Thursday January 15, 2015 This is the 15th day of the year, with 350 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: ants Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sidewards, like a scissor, to extract the juices from the food.
Holidays Feast day of St. Macarius the Elder, St. Isidore of Alexandria, St. Bonitus or Bonet, St. Ita, and St. John Calybites.
Guatemala: Feast of Christ of Esquipulas or Black Christ Festival.
Japan: Coming of Age Day.
Quarterly estimated U.S. federal income tax due date (other dates are April, June, September).
Events 1535 - Henry VIII assumed the title "Supreme Head of the Church."
1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1759 - The British Museum opened, at Montague House, Bloomsbury, London.
1777 - The people of New Connecticut declared their independence; the tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.
1844 - The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
1870 - The Democratic party was represented as a donkey for the first time in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in "Harper's Weekly."
1892 - The rules of basketball were published, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1919 - Ignace Jan Paderewski (also a pianist) became the first premier of the newly created republic of Poland.
1922 - The Irish Free State was established.
1927 - The Dumbarton Bridge opened in San Francisco carrying the first automobile traffic across the bay.
1929 - The Kellogg-Briand pact was ratified by the U.S. Senate, an agreement for the peaceful settlement of international disputes.
1943 - Work was completed on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
1962 - The centigrade scale or Celsius scale was used for the first time in British Meteorological Office weather forecasts. It was invented 200 years earlier.
1967 - The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League in the first Super Bowl, 35-10.
1970 - Muammar al-Qaddafi, Libyan army captain who deposed King Idris in September 1969, was proclaimed premier of Libya by the so-called General People's Congress.
1970 - The Republic of Biafra, a breakaway state of eastern Nigeria, surrendered to Nigeria after three years of fighting.
1971 - The Aswan High Dam, on the Nile in Egypt and financed by the USSR, was opened.
1973 - President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on television.
1981 - The police series "Hill Street Blues" premiered on TV.
1992 - The European Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia, ending the Yugoslav federation.
Births 1622 - Jean Baptiste MoliÈre (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), French playwright.
1870 - Pierre S. DuPont, American industrialist.
1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-born American scientist known as the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb."
1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, minister, and winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
Deaths 1993 - Sammy Cahn, American lyricist.
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