Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 15
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January 15: John Chilembwe Day in Malawi, Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea, Martin Luther King Day in the United States (2007), Pongal in Tamil Nadu (2007).
- 1759 - The British Museum opened to the public.
- 1885 - Wilson Bentley took the first photograph of a snowflake.
- 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
- 1943 - Construction of the world's largest office building, The Pentagon (pictured), was completed.
- 1967 - The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
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