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1/15/2015
« on: January 15, 2015, 12:45:47 AM »

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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 12:49:35 AM »

Looks like Tony woke up,  Good morning everyone!
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 03:20:03 AM »

Good morning guys.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2015, 03:36:31 AM »

Today is Thursday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2015. There are 350 days left in the year.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2015, 03:37:07 AM »

Today's Highlight in History:

On Jan. 15, 1865, during the closing months of the Civil War, the Second Battle of Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina, ended as Union forces captured the "Gibraltar of the South," depriving the Confederates of their last major seaport.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2015, 03:37:42 AM »

On this date:
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2015, 03:38:13 AM »

In 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2015, 03:38:51 AM »

In 1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The republic later became the state of Vermont.)
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2015, 03:46:00 AM »

In 1862, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln's choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be the new Secretary of War, replacing Simon Cameron.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2015, 03:46:54 AM »

In 1919, in Boston, a tank containing an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, sending the dark syrup coursing through the city's North End, killing 21 people.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2015, 03:47:21 AM »


In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2015, 03:48:01 AM »


In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense).
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2015, 03:48:50 AM »

In 1947, the mutilated remains of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the "Black Dahlia," were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2015, 03:49:28 AM »

In 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, known retroactively as Super Bowl I.
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Re: 1/15/2015
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2015, 03:50:04 AM »

In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
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