Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 15
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January 15: Pongal (Tamils, 2011)
- 1815 – War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
- 1885 – American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake (example pictured) by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.
- 1991 – Elizabeth II, as Queen of Australia, signed letters patent allowing Australia to become the first Commonwealth realm to institute its own separate Victoria Cross award in its own honours system.
- 1999 – Yugoslav forces massacred 45 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Račak, one of the main causes for the subsequent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
- 2009 – After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada Geese during its initial climb out from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.