January 15

January 15 in history:

• 69, Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome,

but only rules for three months before committing suicide

• 1759, the British Museum opens

• 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)

• 1885, Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake

• 1892, James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball

• 1936, the first building to be completely covered in glass is

completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company)

• 1943, the world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated

in Arlington, Virginia

• 1967, in the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the

Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.

• 1970, Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya

• 1973, during the Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations,

President of the United States Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam

• 1976, President Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is

sentenced to life in prison

• 1991, the United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces

from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm

• 2003, Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory as

the Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars

• 2005, an intense solar flare blasts X rays across the solar system.

ALSO: ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon

• 2007, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and

half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq