January 15 Events

2011 Australia's enormous flood effects 13,000 properties in rural Victoria
2011 China announces it may station troops in North Korea to protect its citizens and investment projects
2010 Muslim fundamentalists in northern Algeria kill an army colonel and a military commander of Bejaia
2009 U.S. Airways plane ditches in the Hudson River - all 155 passengers survive
2006 Stardust space mission returns dust from a comet to earth
1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station
1995 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion
1995 San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship
1995 San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship
1995 Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334
1995 Western Washington begins using new area code 360
1994 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10
1994 Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%)
1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist
1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die
1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo
1992 Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia
1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man
1992 Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum
1991 Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
1991 UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't)
1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
1990 AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
1990 Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
1990 New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
1989 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 176 performances
1989 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $22,600,000
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
1988 Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record
1988 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) vs. WI on Test debut
1986 Living Seas opens at Epcot
1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell