Monday January 15, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

January 15: Day of the Week

January 15, 2024 was the 15th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 351 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is lundi.

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Here’s the January calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

January 15 Historical Event(s)

1493
Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
1865
American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
1870
A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
1936
The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
1947
The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (“The Black Dahlia”) is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
1951
Ilse Koch, “The Witch of Buchenwald”, wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in West Germany.
1990
AT&T’s long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
1991
Elizabeth II, in her capacity as Queen of Australia, signs letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth Realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
2005
An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
2009
US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.

Who were born on January 15?

1824
Marie Duplessis, French courtesan (d. 1847)
1841
Frederick Arthur Stanley, Governor General of Canada (d. 1908)
1900
William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (d. 1991)
1937
Margaret O'Brien, American actress
1943
Mike Marshall, American baseball player
1969
Meret Becker, German actress and singer
1972
Ernie Reyes, Jr. American actor and martial artist
1975
9th Wonder, American producer
1984
Megan Jendrick, American swimmer
1986
Fred Davis, American football player

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