WHAT HAPPENED ON 15. JANUARY
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Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide. (15. January 69)

King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith". (15. January 1541)

Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England. (15. January 1559)

Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. (15. January 1582)

The British Museum opens. (15. January 1759)

American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present day Vermont) declares its independence. (15. January 1777)

Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage. (15. January 1782)

War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, is captured by a squadron of four British frigates. (15. January 1815)

Greek War of Independence: Demetrios Ypsilantis is elected president of the legislative assembly. (15. January 1822)

University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana. (15. January 1844)

American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy. (15. January 1865)

A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly). (15. January 1870)

The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia. (15. January 1889)

James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. (15. January 1892)

The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women. (15. January 1908)

Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m). (15. January 1910)

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising. (15. January 1919)

Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others. (15. January 1919)

A twelve-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium. (15. January 1933)

The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio. (15. January 1936)