History, Birthdays and Historic Events of 15 January-

• January 15, 1559 – Elizabeth I was crowned as Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
  

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• January 15, 1592 – Shahjahan, the mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.
  

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• January 15, 1656 – Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj conquered Javali state.
  

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• January 15, 1887 – Shri Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary, freedom fighter and a great native poet, was born on 15 January 1887 in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh.
  

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• January 15, 1888 – Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, barrister and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar.
  

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• January 15, 1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball on 15 January 1892.
  

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• January 15, 1923 – Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan Tamil singer and actress, was born on 15 January 1923 and died in a car accident on October 28, 1978.
  

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• January 15, 1929 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader of the United States of America, freedom fighter and Nobel Prize awardee, was born as Michael King Jr. at America on 15 January 1929.
  

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• January 15, 1934 – The 8.4 earthquake on the Ricther Scale, in India/Nepal strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 10,700 people.
  

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• January 15, 1942 – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of Indian’s National Congress Party.
  

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• January 15, 1943 – The Pentagon headquarters of the Department of U. S. Defense was completed after just 16 months construction.
  

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• January 15, 1947 – Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India.
  

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• January 15, 1947 – Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born.
  

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• January 15, 1948 – Mahatama Gandhi hailed Indian Cabinet’s decision to release Pakistan dues of Rs. 550 million. Also his fast continued for establishment of communal peace.
  

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• January 15, 1949 – The Chinese Communist Party forces took over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
  

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• January 15, 1949 – Gen. K. M. Cariappa was appointed as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, succeeding Lieutenant General Sir Roy Bucher. Since then 15 January is being celebrated as the Indian Army Day. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff – General, later Field Marshal.
  

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• January 15, 1956 – Kumari Mayawati, born as Mayawati Prabhu Das on 15 January 1956, is an Indian politician, leader of the BSP and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
  

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• January 15, 1958 – Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.
  

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• January 15, 1966 – The Indian Air Force achieved equal status with the Army and possessed in excess of 70,000 personnel and was nearing its 45-squadron goal.
  

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• January 15, 1982 – Neil Nitin Mukesh, born on 15 January 1982, is an Indian actor.
  

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• January 15, 1989 – Worst railway tragedy in Bangladesh history in which 110 people were killed and 1,000 wounded.
  

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• January 15, 1994 – Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati-Indian Author, Poet, Astrologis, died on 15 January 1994 in Paddhari, Gujarat, India. He was born on January 22, 1916.
  

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• January 15, 1996 – The original name of the city ‘Bombay’ was restored as “Mumbai“. Also Victoria Terminus (VT) station in Mumbai  was renamed as Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus by the Centre.
  

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• January 15, 1997 – Pakistan’s pilotless surveillance aircraft intruded into Indian air space for the first time.
  

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• January 15, 1998 – Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian economist and politician, shortly Prime Minister of India, died on 15 January 1998. He was born on July 4, 1898 at Sialkot in the Punjab Province of British India, currently in Punjab Province of Pakistan after the partition.
  

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• January 15, 2000 – Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.
  

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• January 15, 2007 – In Nepal, opening of the first session of the parliament (Sansad) after king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev had been ousted. The Maoist communist party had 83 MP among 330.
  

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• January 15, 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 ditched safely in the Hudson River after the plane collided with birds several minutes after take-off.
  

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• January 15, 2013 – The Pakistani Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Raja Pervez Ashraf, the country’s prime minister, in connection with a corruption case relating to contracts for the purchase of rental power plants by the federal government when he was the federal minister for water and power.
  

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to be Continued ..