Jan. 15, Martin Luther King Day

1922 – Establishment of the Irish Republic.
1934 – Earthquake in Bihar in India and Nepal kills 10,700 persons.

1944 – Earthquake in Argentine kills 5000 persons.

1960 –Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) had its headquarters in Geneva.

1970 – Libyan General People’s Congress elects Late President, Muammar al-Gaddafi as its president .

1993- 130 states sign the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in Paris.

2011 – Tunisia’s speaker of parliament, Fouad Mebazaa sworn in as interim President of Tunisia after former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled the country.

Born today:
1929 – leader of the American civil rights movement and Nobel-Laureate Martin Luther King.

Occasions:
Martin Luther King Day.

Korean Alphabet Day (Hangul) in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

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