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This is a list of selected January 15 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Ineligible

Blurb Reason
Army Day and Jallikattu in India; Armed Forces Day: refimprove; Jallikattu: festival is now banned
Armed Forces Day in Nigeria; refimprove
1885 – American photographer Wilson Bentley took the first known photograph of a snowflake by attaching a bellows camera to a microscope. too much trivia
1919Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two prominent socialists in Germany, were tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Luxemburg: refimprove sesction
1947 – The brutalized corpse of the Black Dahlia, a 22-year-old American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder, was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. refimprove section
1974 – American serial killer Dennis Rader blinded, tortured, and killed his first three victims, earning him the nickname "BTK killer". too much trivia
1999Yugoslav forces massacred 45 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Račak, one of the main causes of the subsequent NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. multiple issues
1993Salvatore "The Beast" Riina, one of the most powerful members of the Sicilian Mafia, was arrested after three decades as a fugitive. refimprove

Eligible

January 15: World Religion Day (2017); John Chilembwe Day in Malawi; Korean Alphabet Day in North Korea

The British Museum
The British Museum
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