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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_15" title="January 15">January 15</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chilembwe" title="John Chilembwe">John Chilembwe Day</a></b> in Malawi; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Religion_Day" title="World Religion Day">World Religion Day</a></b> (2023)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815" title="1815">1815</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>: The American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigate" title="Frigate">frigate</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_President_(1800)" title="USS President (1800)">USS <i>President</i></a></b>, commanded by Commodore <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Decatur" title="Stephen Decatur">Stephen Decatur</a>, was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_USS_President" title="Capture of USS President">captured by a squadron</a> of four British frigates.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937" title="1937">1937</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">Spanish Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francoist_Spain" title="Francoist Spain">Nationalist</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Spanish_Republic" title="Second Spanish Republic">Republican</a> forces both withdrew after suffering heavy losses at the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Corunna_Road" title="Second Battle of the Corunna Road">Second Battle of the Corunna Road</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947" title="1947">1947</a> – The mutilated corpse of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dahlia" title="Black Dahlia">Black Dahlia</a></b>, a 22-year-old woman whose murder is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the United States, was found in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leimert_Park,_Los_Angeles" title="Leimert Park, Los Angeles">Leimert Park, Los Angeles</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962" title="1962">1962</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derveni_papyrus" title="Derveni papyrus">Derveni papyrus</a></b>, the oldest surviving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscript</a> in Europe, was discovered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece)" title="Macedonia (Greece)">Macedonia</a> in northern Greece.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – Portugal and the nationalist factions <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNITA" title="UNITA">UNITA</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLA" title="MPLA">MPLA</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_of_Angola" title="National Liberation Front of Angola">FNLA</a> signed the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvor_Agreement" title="Alvor Agreement">Alvor Agreement</a></b>, ending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_War_of_Independence" title="Angolan War of Independence">Angolan War of Independence</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Marx" title="Wilhelm Marx">Wilhelm Marx</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1863); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Lawler" title="Sylvia Lawler">Sylvia Lawler</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1922); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Yibo" title="Bo Yibo">Bo Yibo</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2007)</p>
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