Page 8: Historical Events In January - 15

1974  On January - 15 expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures   

1974  Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76 on January - 15.   

1975  On January - 15 portugal signs accord for Angola's independence   

1975  Space Mountain opens (Disneyland) on January - 15.   

1976  Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford on January - 15.   

1976  US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit on January - 15.   

1976  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR on this day in history.   

1977  Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" on January - 15.   

1978  Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman on this day in history.   

1978  Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy on this day in history.   

1981  On this day in history "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV   

1981  On January - 15 bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame   

1981  Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92 on this day in history.   

1982  Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76 on January - 15.   

1983  On this day in history dutch political party DS'70 disbands   

1983  On this day in history hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard   

1983  On this day in history javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India   

1983  Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours on January - 15.   

1983  On January - 15 meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80   

1984  On January - 15 hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak   

1985  On January - 15 civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president   

1985  On January - 15 mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India   

1985  Rose Bottle is born on January - 15.   

1985  On January - 15 tancredo Neves becomes first elected President of Brazil in 21 years   

1986  Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World on January - 15.   

1986  On this day in history james H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83   

1987  Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58 on January - 15.   

1988  On this day in history arab uprising in Israel begins   

1988  Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes on January - 15.   

1988  On this day in history kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record   

1988  Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 on January - 15.   

1989  On this day in history big John Studd wins WWF's first Royal Rumble   

1989  On this day in history cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000   

1989  Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies on January - 15.   

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1432  Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481) was born on January - 15.   

1481  On January - 15 birth of ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)   

1507  On January - 15 birth of johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran)   

1538  Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599) was born on this day in history.   

1567  Black Box, [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation) was born on this day in history.   

1622  On January - 15 birth of molière, French playwright (d. 1673)   

1671  On this day in history birth of abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)   

1674  On this day in history birth of prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)   

0069  On January - 15 death of servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70   

0570  On January - 15 death of saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)   

0936  On this day in history death of king Rudolph of France   

1208  Death of Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered on January - 15.   

1345  On January - 15 death of martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler   

1481  Death of Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511) on January - 15.   

1595  On January - 15 death of murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)   

1672  Death of John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594) on January - 15.