History's most remarkable moments on January 15

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588 BC Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
1535 King Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1777 People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
1780 American Continental Congress establishes court of appeals
1782 Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance, recommends to U.S. Congress establishment of decimal coinage and a national mint
1815 War of 1812: the USS President, an American frigate, is captured by four British frigates
1831 1st US railroad honeymoon trip, Mr & Mrs Pierson, Charleston, South Carolina
1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by American inventor Lee De Forest
1907 Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
1908 Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the first for African-American women, established by Ethel Hedgeman and 15 other students at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives at San Francisco
1919 Two million gallons of molasses flood Boston Massachusetts in the "Great Molasses Flood" when a storage tank burst, drowning 21 and injuring 150
1943 1,000 workers complete air conditioning system for Pentagon
1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed to house the US military
1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1945 The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory
1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
1972 TV drama "Emergency" with Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
1973 US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in North Vietnam
1974 Expert panel reports 18½ minute gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures
1974 TV sitcom "Happy Days" created by Garry Marshall and starring Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, and Tom Bosley, begins an 11 year run on ABC
1975 Space Mountain opens at Disney World in Orlando, Florida
1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot US President Gerald Ford
1988 NFL analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on CBS' NFL Today; fired the next day
1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
2009 Chesley Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in NYC. All passengers and crew members survive in what becomes known as the "Miracle on the Hudson”
2016 American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan unveils newest exhibit replica skeleton of a Titanosaur dinosaur (found 2010 Argentina), largest known dinosaur at 70 tons, 37m
2023 Mexico brings into force world's strictest anti-smoking laws, banning smoking in public places such as beaches and parks