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This is a list of selected January 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Army Day and Jallikattu in India; Armed Forces Day: refimprove; Jallikattu: refimprove section/convert list to prose
Armed Forces Day in Nigeria; refimprove
Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea; refimprove section
Makar Sankranti in India multiple issues
1759 – The British Museum in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury. Several unreferenced sections
1777 – The Vermont Republic (the precursor of the present-day U.S. state) declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colony of Quebec, and the U.S. states of New Hampshire and New York. unreferenced section
1908Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by nine students. primary sources
1919Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Luxemburg: unreferenced section *rescue started 2022)
1993Salvatore Riina, one of the most powerful members of the Sicilian Mafia, was arrested in Palermo after 23 years as a fugitive. refimprove section
1999Yugoslav forces massacred 45 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Račak, one of the main causes of the subsequent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. outdated
2001 – The internet encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched three days after the domain name "wikipedia.com" was registered. outdated, WP:NAVEL
Afonso V of Portugal |b|1432 unreferenced section, refimprove in another section

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Notes

January 15: Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States (2024) John Chilembwe Day in Malawi

US Airways Flight 1549 crash and rescue
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