01-15-2006, 07:44 AM
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January 15th
1870 ~ U.S. Democratic Party first portrayed as a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
1892 ~ James Naismith published the rules for basketball.
1908 ~ Birthday of Edward Teller, Physicist.
1918 ~ Birth of Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt.
1929 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights leader & winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1964.
1951 ~ Ilse Koch, The "Bitch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, was sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1953 ~ East German authorities began a purge of senior Jewish officials .
1970 ~ Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1983 ~ Death of Meyer Lansky, mobster.
1991 ~ The UN deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expired, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
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