1 of 9|On January 15, 2009, all 155 individuals aboard United States Airways Flight 1549 left major injury when pilot Chesley Sullenberger carefully landed his handicapped airplane in the Hudson River in between New York and New Jersey. Submit Photo by Monika Graff/UPI|License Photo Jan. 15 (UPI)– On this date in history: In 1870, an animation by Thomas Nast appeared in Harper’s weekly with a donkey signifying the Democratic Party for the very first time. In 1892, Dr. James Naismith released the guidelines of basketball. He developed the video game at a YMCA in Springfield, Mass. In 1919, 21 individuals were eliminated and ratings hurt when a barrel holding 2.3 million gallons of molasses took off and sent out gushes of the syrup into the streets of Boston. The occasion is called the Boston Molasses Disaster. In 1922, the Irish Free State was formed as part of the treaty that ended the Irish War of Independence. It was under the rule of the United Kingdom up until 1937, when the independent state of Ireland was developed. The independent republic was formalized in 1949. In 1943, the Pentagon, the world’s biggest structure of its kind, was devoted on the Virginia side of the Potomac River simply beyond Washington. In 1967, the very first Super Bowl, pitting the NFL and AFL champs, was dipped into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, with the Green Bay Packers beating the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. Submit Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI In 1973, President Richard Nixon called a stop to U.S. military offensives in Vietnam. In 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a sweeping arms-control strategy to remove all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 and rid “humanity of the worry of nuclear disaster.” In 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reached an arrangement on the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank city of Hebron. In 2001, totally free online encyclopedia Wikipedia debuts, offering users the capability to develop and modify posts. Within 4 years, Wikipedia was the biggest and fastest-growing academic recommendation site. In a 2006 overflow, Chile chose Michelle Bachelet as its very first female president. Submit Photo by Ron Sachs/UPI In 2008, meat and milk from cloned animals were ruled safe for human usage by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after years of dispute. In 2009, all 155 individuals aboard United States Airways Flight 1549 left major injury when pilot Chesley Sullenberger carefully landed his handicapped airplane in the Hudson River in between New York and New Jersey. The landing ended up being called the “Miracle on the Hudson.” In 2011, citizens in southern Sudan extremely authorized a referendum to withdraw from Sudan and end up being an independent African country. In 2018, Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles exposed she was among more than 100 females and girls abused by previous USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. In 2023, a Yeti Airlines traveler jet crashed near Pokhara, Nepal, eliminating 68 individuals. Submit Photo by Bijaya Neupane/EPA-EFE
On This Day, Jan. 15: Disabled United States Airways flight lands in Hudson River
