Historical Events In January - 15

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

1974  On January - 15 karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76  

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

1975  On January - 15 space Mountain opens (Disneyland)  

1976  On January - 15 sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford  

1976  On January - 15 uS-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit  

1976  On January - 15 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR  

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

1978  On January - 15 theodore Bundy kills Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy & Margaret Bowman  

1978  On January - 15 margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy  

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

1981  Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame on January - 15.  

1981  On January - 15 emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92  

1982  On this day in history red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76  

1983  On January - 15 dutch political party DS'70 disbands  

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

1983  Javed Miandad & Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India on this day in history.  

1983  On January - 15 thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours  

1983  Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80 on January - 15.  

1984  On this day in history hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak  

1985  On this day in history civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president  

1985  Mike Gatting & Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India on January - 15.  

1985  On January - 15 rose Bottle is born  

1985  On this day in history tancredo Neves becomes first elected President of Brazil in 21 years  

1986  On January - 15 living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World  

1986  James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83 on January - 15.  

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  On January - 15 jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes  

1988  Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record on January - 15.  

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

1989  Big John Studd wins WWF's first Royal Rumble on January - 15.  

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 this day in history.  

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1432  On January - 15 birth of afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481)  

1481  Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511) was born on January - 15.  

1507  On this day in history birth of johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran)  

1538  Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599) was born on January - 15.  

1567  On January - 15 birth of black Box, [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation)  

1622  Molière, French playwright (d. 1673) was born on this day in history.  

1671  On January - 15 birth of abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)  

1674  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762) was born on this day in history.  

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

0570  On this day in history death of saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)  

0936  Death of King Rudolph of France on January - 15.  

1208  Death of Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered on this day in history.  

1345  Death of Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler on January - 15.  

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

1595  Death of Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546) on January - 15.  

1672  Death of John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594) on this day in history.