Today is Tuesday, January 15, the 15th day of 2013. There are 350 days left in the year.
1346 ― Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand
1535 ― Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1895 ― Tchaikovsky's ballet ``Swan Lake” premieres, St. Petersburg
1907 ― Three-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee de Forest
1915 ― Japan claims economic control of China
1942 ― FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
1973 ― Four Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
1988 ― Arab uprising in Israel begins
1991 ― U.N.'s deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passes ― (they don't)
1998 ― NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again