Tuesday, January 15, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – JANUARY 15



HISTORICAL EVENTS

1559 – Elizabeth I, the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty, is crowned queen of England.

1831 – Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finished.


1953 – U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles calls for the "liberation of captive peoples" during the Cold War.

1967 – Packers face Chiefs in the first NFL-AFL Championship Game, later known as Super Bowl I. Green Bay wins 35-10.

1973 – President Richard M. Nixon suspends military action in North Vietnam.



FAMOUS BIRTHS


1908 – Physicist Edward Teller, advocate for and the father of the hydrogen (fusion) bomb and member of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic (fission) bomb, was born in Budapest, Hungary (died, 2003).



1929 – American clergyman, Civil Rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martin Luther King, Jr., is born in Atlanta, GA. King was assassinated in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968 at age 39.



FAMOUS DEATHS
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