Today, January 15, 2025, is Wikipedia’s birthday. There are 350 days before the New Year.
January 15 is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days left before the end of the year (351 days in leap years).
What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?
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Wikipedia’s birthday.
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Museum Selfie Day.
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What events happened on January 15
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69 – Otho becomes Roman Emperor.
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1559 – the coronation of the English Queen Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudor dynasty, takes place.
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1776 – the first copy of “Gazette de Leopol”, the first known periodical on the territory of Ukraine, was published in Lviv.
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1790 – a new administrative division was introduced in France (83 departments).
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1797 – John Etherington from London for the first time in Great Britain began to sell a new type of headdress in his shop – the top hat.
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1892 – in the Triangle newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the game of basketball originated, the author of the game, Dr. James Naismith, first published 13 rules for playing it.
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1907 – Dr. Lee de Forest, recognized worldwide as the “father of radio and grandfather of television”, received a patent for a three-electrode vacuum tube, a device that made it possible to make radio a practically usable device for transmission of voice and music.
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1919 – after the failure of an armed communist uprising in Berlin, government troops captured and executed without trial the initiators of the uprising, the founders of the German Communist Party, 48-year-old Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
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1943 – in the state of Virginia (USA) the construction of the Pentagon was completed – the largest office building in the world, where the US Department of Defense is based.
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1967 – The Super Bowl (the final game of the season in professional American football) is played for the first time at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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1970 – 28-year-old Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who came to power in Libya in 1969 as a result of a military coup and the power of King Idris, became the country’s prime minister.
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1992 – Berners-Lee Tim, “the father of the World Wide Web,” released a web browser, a program that allows you to browse Internet resources.
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1993 – the last (2137) episode of “Santa Barbara” aired in the USA on NBC.
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1994 – as a result of a referendum held in Turkmenistan, the powers of the head of the republic Saparmurat Niyazov were extended from five to ten years.
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2001 – Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launch Wikipedia as an English language section on the website www.wikipedia.com.
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2006 – For the first time, a woman became the President of Chile – Michelle Bachelet.
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2009 – the crew of an American Airbus A-320 managed to save 146 passengers from death by landing the plane with stopped engines in the waters of the Hudson River in the middle of New York.
Who was born on January 15
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1994 – Vasily Gukalo, soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine (2024, posthumously).
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1899 – Leonid Chernov, Ukrainian writer.
What is the name of the days: Gavrila, Ivan, Mikhail, Pavel, Elena.
What not to do on January 15
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You should not talk about other people’s lives or judge others.
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You may not curse, swear, or curse.
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It is forbidden to leave dirty shoes overnight.
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