January 15, 1865 - The Confederate port of Wilmington is forced to close due to the fall of Fort Fisher to Union forces.

January 15, 1870 - A Democratic Party is represented by a donkey for the first time in Harper's Weekly. The cartoon was created by Thomas Nast.

January 15, 1907 - Dr. Lee De Forest receives a patent for the Audion radio tube. It would go on to make wireless broadcasting feasible.

January 15, 1909 - Funeral director H. D. Ludlow stops use of horse-drawn hearses and puts a motorized hearse in use for the first time.

January 15, 1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is born.

January 15, 1936 - Henry Ford establishes the Ford Foundation, a philanthropic organization.

 

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January 15, 1973 - President Nixon stops some of the bombing of the Vietnam War due to the progress in the Paris peace negotiations between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam.

January 15, 1974 - The TV show Happy Days debuts.

January 15, 1981 - Hill Street Blues premieres on television.

January 15, 1992 - The first web browser for the internet is released by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.