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January 15th, 2069	Event	Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide.
January 15th, 2007	Event	Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
January 15th, 2005	Event	An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
January 15th, 2005	Event	ESA s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
January 15th, 2001	Event	Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
January 15th, 1999	Event	The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
January 15th, 1993	Event	Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as The Beast , is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
January 15th, 1992	Event	The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
January 15th, 1991	Event	The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
January 15th, 1990	Event	AT&T s long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.

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