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Did you know ...
- ... that Soony Saad (pictured) scored on his Major League Soccer debut on his 19th birthday?
- ... that to comply with a law that restricted liquor sales near churches, the Peninsula New York placed its cocktail lounge up a flight of stairs and down a long hallway?
- ... that Shigeru Ohmori and his team took half a year to design the grass in Pokémon Sword and Shield?
- ... that in 2019, the Canadian government's Translation Bureau began providing translation services in Dene, East Cree, Plains Cree, and Mohawk?
- ... that Robert Rattenbury said to his student Geoffrey Kirk: "Good Heavens! Well, I don't suppose I shall be seeing you again"?
- ... that the construction of the Botaş Saros FSRU Terminal in the Gulf of Saros, Turkey, continued despite a court-ordered stay of execution?
- ... that illustrator Rudy Nappi based his cover art for the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories on summaries provided by his wife, who actually read the books?
- ... that Fucking Trans Women associates erectile dysfunction with pleasure?
In the news
- An aircraft crash (airplane pictured) in Pokhara, Nepal, kills all 72 people on board.
- Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro invade the National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court, and the Palácio do Planalto.
- Michael Smith wins the PDC World Darts Championship.
- Croatia adopts the euro and joins the Schengen Area.
- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at the age of 95.
On this day
January 15: John Chilembwe Day in Malawi; World Religion Day (2023)
- 1815 – War of 1812: The American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
- 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
- 1947 – The mutilated corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
- 1962 – The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
- 1975 – Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
- Wilhelm Marx (b. 1863)
- Sylvia Lawler (b. 1922)
- Bo Yibo (d. 2007)
Today's featured picture
The 2021–22 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami was a volcanic event caused by Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, a submarine volcano in the Tongan archipelago in the southern Pacific Ocean. Beginning in December 2021, the eruption reached a large and powerful climax on 15 January 2022. Described by scientists as a "magma hammer", the volcano produced a series of four underwater thrusts at the height of the eruption, displaced 10 cubic kilometres (2.4 cu mi) of rock, ash and sediment, and generated the largest atmospheric explosion recorded by modern instrumentation. The eruption caused tsunamis along the Pacific rim. This animation, depicting the initial ash plume and shockwave produced by Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai on 15 January 2022, was created by the Japan Meteorological Agency from sixteen photographs taken at ten-minute intervals by the Japanese weather satellite Himawari 8. Animation credit: Japan Meteorological Agency
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