DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Saturday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2022. There are 350 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1862: The U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln’s choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be the new Secretary of War, replacing Simon Cameron.
1892: The original rules of basketball, devised by James Naismith, were published for the first time in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the game originated.
1929: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta.
1943: Work was completed on the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense).
1967: The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFLNFL
World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.
1973: President Richard M. Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1976: Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald R. Ford in San Francisco. (Moore was released on the last day of 2007.)
1981: The police drama series “Hill Street Blues” premiered on NBC.
1993: A historic disarmament ceremony ended in Paris with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons.
2001: Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia, made its debut.
2009: US Airways Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger ditched his Airbus 320 in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both engines; all 155 people aboard survived.
2014: A highly critical and bipartisan Senate report declared that the deadly September 2012 assault on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, could have been prevented; the report spread blame among the State Department, the military and U.S. intelligence.
2020: Chinese officials said they couldn’t rule out the possibility that a new coronavirus in central China could spread between humans, though they said the risk of transmission appeared to be low. House Democratic leaders carried articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump across the U.S. Capitol in a formal procession to the Senate.
Actor Margaret O’brien (“Meet Me In St. Louis”) is 84. Actor Andrea Martin is 75. Actor-director Mario Van Peebles is 65. Guitarist Adam Jones of Tool is 57. Actor James Nesbitt (“Waking Ned Devine”) is 57. Actor
Chad Lowe is 54. Actordirector Regina King is 51. Actor Dorian Missick
(“For Life”) is 46. Actor
Eddie Cahill (“Conviction,” “CSI: New York”) is 44. Rapper Pitbull is 41. Actor Victor Rasuk (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) is 37. Actor Jessy Schram (“Nashville,” “Once Upon a Time”) is 36. Electronic dance musician Skrillex is 34. Actor Dove Cameron
(“Liv and Maddie,” “The Descendants”) is 26.