På denne dag: 15. januar
Utforsk avgjørende hendelser, vitenskapelige sprang og historiske vendepunkter. Med kildekritisk merking for antikke og kalenderusatte datoer.
1815: Historisk hendelse
War of 1812: The American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates.
1857: Historisk hendelse
In British Hong Kong, hundreds of Europeans were non-lethally poisoned by arsenic in bread from a locally owned bakery, leading to geopolitical tension.
1865: Historisk hendelse
American Civil War: The Union Army captured Fort Fisher, the last seaport of the Confederacy.
1867: Historisk hendelse
In Regent's Park, London, the ice on the lake broke, plunging skaters into the water and causing 40 deaths from drowning or hypothermia.
1867: Historisk hendelse
In Regent's Park, London, the ice on the lake broke, plunging skaters into the water and causing 40 deaths from drowning or hypothermia.
1885: Historisk hendelse
Wilson Bentley (pictured) took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope.
1910: Historisk hendelse
Construction was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.
1919: Historisk hendelse
A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets , killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.
1933: Historisk hendelse
A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
1934: Historisk hendelse
At least 10,700 people died when a magnitude-8.0 earthquake struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.
1937: Historisk hendelse
Spanish Civil War: Nationalist and Republican forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
1943: Historisk hendelse
The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.
1947: Historisk hendelse
The mutilated corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
1951: Historisk hendelse
Ilse Koch, wife of Karl-Otto Koch, the Nazi commander of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.
1962: Historisk hendelse
The Derveni papyrus (fragment pictured), the oldest surviving manuscript in Europe, was discovered in Macedonia in northern Greece.
1967: Historisk hendelse
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the American football championship game now known as Super Bowl I.
1970: Historisk hendelse
The Republic of Biafra surrendered following a failed attempt at secession from Nigeria, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
1974: Historisk hendelse
American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.
1975: Historisk hendelse
Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the Angolan War of Independence.
1981: Historisk hendelse
The American serial police-procedural television show Hill Street Blues aired its pilot episode, "Hill Street Station".
1991: Historisk hendelse
The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted, making Australia the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
2001: Historisk hendelse
The first edit to the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was made.
2009: Historisk hendelse
US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).
🔍 Om kildene og historisk datering
Å tidfeste hendelser tusenvis av år tilbake i tid er en krevende historievitenskapelig oppgave. Før innføringen av den julianske kalenderen (45 f.Kr.) og den gregorianske kalenderen (1582) benyttet ulike sivilisasjoner (romere, grekere, kinesere, babylonere) vidt forskjellige kalendersystemer basert på månesykluser eller lokale embetsperioder.
Slik merker vi dateringene:
• ✓ Sikker datering: Dokumentert i samtidige protokoller, offisielle traktater eller etter standardiserte kalendersystemer.
• ⚠️ Usikker / estimert: Hendelsen er historisk reell, men datoen er tradisjonell, basert på senere krøniker eller lunisolare omregninger.
- Wikimedia Foundation – Wikipedia On This Day arkiver og historiske registre.
- Store norske leksikon (SNL) – Norsk og internasjonal historie, biografier og årstallsverifisering.
- Encyclopædia Britannica – Verifisering av antikke slag, fredsavtaler og statsdannelser.
- NASA Historical Logs & Science Missions – Romfartshistoriske datoer og oppskytningstelemetri.