January History

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What happened on January 15th down through the centuries? I found a few things of interest. January 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta. January 15, 1559: Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. January 15, 1844: The University of Notre Dame was chartered in Indiana. January 15, 1942: Jawaharial Nehru became head of India’s National Congress Party, succeeding Mohandas K. Gandhi. January 15, 1943: Construction on the Pentagon, currently the headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department, was completed. January 15, 1973: All U.S. offensive action was halted in North Vietnam by President Nixon. January 15, 2004: The NASA Spirit rover rolled onto the surface of Mars for the first time since the vehicle landed two weeks earlier. What about January 16? January 16, 1920: Prohibition began in the U.S. January 16, 1547: Ivan the Terrible was crowned as Czar of Russia. January 16, 1964: “Hello Dolly” opened on Broadway and ran for 2,844 performances. January 16, 1991: Operation Desert Storm began in the Persian Gulf. January 16, 2003: Space shuttle, Columbia blasted off. Ending in tragedy on February 1st, when the shuttle broke up during its return, killing all seven crew members. Do you know of any other interesting historical facts for either of these dates?