TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 2018

On this day in history:

1559 - England’s Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1624 - Many riots occurred in Mexico when it was announced that all churches were to be closed.

1790 - The mutineers of the Bounty arrive at Pitcairn Island and establish a settlement there.

1797 - The Top Hat makes its first appearance, causing a riot.

1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. 1973 - US President Nixon announced the suspension of all US offensive action in North Vietnam. He cited progress in peace negotiations as the reason.

1976 - The first episode of the Australian drama series The Sullivans is broadcast. 1974 - Happy Days premiered in the US.

1987 - Paramount Home Video reported that it would place a commercial at the front of one of its video releases for the first time. It was a 30-second Diet Pepsi ad at the beginning of Top Gun.

1991 - The Victoria Cross for Australia is created by letters patent signed by HM Elizabeth II.

2001 - Wikipedia was launched.

2004 - The first freight train departs from Adelaide, bound for Darwin, on the newly completed AustralAsia Railway.

2007 - Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq. 2009 - Captain Sully (Chesley Sullenberger) emergency landed a US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River saving all 155 passengers after the plane collided with birds few minutes after take-off. 2013 - A train carrying Egyptian Army recruits derails near Giza, Greater Cairo, killing 19 and injuring 120 others. 2016 - The Kenyan Army suffers it worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 soldiers die.