Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 15

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 * 1815 – War of 1812: The 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.
 * 1867 – In Regent's Park, London, the ice on the lake broke, plunging skaters into the water and causing 40 deaths from drowning or hypothermia.
 * 1885 – Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.
 * 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: 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.
 * 1943 – The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.
 * 1951 – Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
 * 1962 – The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
 * 1967 – The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
 * 1970 – The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
 * 1975 – Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
 * 1981 – The American serial police-procedural television show Hill Street Blues aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
 * Born/died this day: | Wang Jingchong |d|950| Philip Livingston |b|1716| Marjorie Fleming |b|1803| Peter Christen Asbjørnsen |b|1812| Friedrich Parrot |d|1841| Wilhelm Marx |b|1863| C. D. Howe |b|1886| Sylvia Lawler |b|1922|  Ben Shapiro |b|1984| Bo Yibo |d|2007