01-15-2005, 10:41 AM
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January 15th
41 ~ Death of 41 - Caligula, Roman Emperor.
1870 ~ A political cartoon for the first time symbolized the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1892 ~ James Naismith published the rules for basketball.
1908 ~ Birthday of Edward Teller, Physicist.
1929 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader.
1951 ~ Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1953 ~ At Joseph Stalin’s behest, East German authorities began a purge of senior Jewish officials.
1970 ~ After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrendered.
1983 ~ Birthday of Meyer Lansky, mobster.
1991 ~ The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expired, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
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