Wednesday January 15, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from β€œThe Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

was the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There were until the end of the year. The day of the week was .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the rd week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

588 BC
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah’s reign. The siege lasts until July 23, 586 BC.
69
Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but rules for only three months before committing suicide.
1493
Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft.
World War II: The Soviet counter-offensive at Voronezh begins.
Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
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.

Who were born on ?

Josef Breuer, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1925)
Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1891)
Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (d. 1944)
Thomas Burke, American sprinter (d. 1929)
Babasaheb Bhosale, Indian politician (d. 2007)
Ruth Slenczynska, U.S. pianist
Andrea Martin, Canadian actress
Andrzej Fischer, Polish footballer
Sister Carol, Jamaican reggae singer
Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby union footballer

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