WEDNESDAY, Jan. 15, 2024

1559-Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey

1582-Russia cedes Livonia & Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic

1759-British Museum opens in Montague House, London

1759-Voltaire's satire "Candide" is published anonymously in five editions in five countries to scandalous acclaim (estimated date)

1870-Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly

1942-U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sends his famed "Green Light Letter" to MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, encouraging baseball to continue playing during World War II

1945-The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory

1973-U.S. President Richard Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam

1985-Tancredo Neves becomes first elected President of Brazil in 21 years, but dies before taking office

1993-7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, killing 2 people

1997-Diana, Princess of Wales, calls for an international ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK