Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 15, 2021

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 * 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
 * 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy.
 * 1885 – Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.
 * 1908 – Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine students.
 * 1910 – Construction on the Buffalo Bill Dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, then the tallest dam in the world, was completed.
 * 1919 – A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
 * 1933 – A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
 * 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
 * 1943 – The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.
 * 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 U.S., was found in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
 * 1962 – The Derveni papyrus, the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia, northern Greece.
 * 1967 – The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
 * 1974 – American serial killer Dennis Rader blinded, tortured, and killed his first three victims, earning him the nickname "BTK killer".
 * 1975 – Portugal signed the Alvor Agreement with the nationalist factions of UNITA, the MPLA, and the FNLA, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
 * 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.
 * Born/died this day: | Theophylact |d|849| Wang Jingchong |d|950| Philip Livingston |b|1716| Marjorie Fleming |b|1803| Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |b|1812| Friedrich Parrot |d|1841| Sylvia Lawler |b|1922| Ben Shapiro |b|1984| Millie Knight |b|1999