TODAY IN HISTORY
On Queen Jan. 15, Elizabeth 1559, England’s I was crowned Abbey. in Westminster
In Connecticut 1777 the people declared of their New independence. later became (The the state republic of Vermont.)
In 1844 the University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
In 1870 the Democratic Party was represented as a donkey for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly.
In 1892 the original rules of basketball, devised by James Naismith, were published for the first time in Springfield, Mass., where the game originated.
In 1929 civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.
In 1943 work was completed on the Pentagon, now the headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department.
In 1947 a grisly, still-unsolved homicide came to light in Los Angeles as the mutilated remains of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, known as the “Black Dahlia” for her
dark vacant outfits, lot. were found in a In 1967 of the the National Green Bay Football Packers League City Chiefs defeated of the the American Kansas Football League in the first Super Bowl, 35-10.
In 1973 President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
In 1976 Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald Ford in San Francisco.
In 1987 entertainer Ray Bolger, perhaps best known for playing the Scarecrow in the 1939 MGM musical “The Wizard of Oz,” died in Los Angeles; he was 83.
In 1992 the Yugoslav federation, founded in 1918, effectively collapsed as the European Community recognized the republics of Croatia and Slovenia.
In 1995 Pope John Paul II celebrated a final Mass during his visit to the Philippines, drawing millions of people. Also in 1995 the San Francisco 49ers defeated the Dallas Cowboys 38-28 in the National Football Con-
ference title game, while the San Diego Chargers upset the Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 in the American Football Conference championship.
In 2004 the NASA Spirit rover rolled onto the surface of Mars for the first time since the vehicle bounced to a landing nearly two weeks earlier.
In 2009 US Airways flight 1549 collided with a flock of geese, killing power in both engines minutes after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York. Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger piloted the Airbus A320 to an emergency water landing on the Hudson River. All 155 people on the plane survived. The incident became known as “The Miracle on the Hudson.”
In 2013 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the average global temperature of 58.3 degrees Fahrenheit in 2012 was among the 10 hottest years on record.
In 2017 former pro wrestler Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, who had just been found not competent to stand trial in the 1983 death of his girlfriend, died near Pompano Beach; he was 73.