The Miracle on the Hudson
On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 lost both engines to a bird strike and ditched in the Hudson River — and all 155 people aboard survived.
On January 15
The Birth of Martin Luther King Jr.
Born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr. would grow up to lead the American civil rights movement with nonviolence.
The British Museum Opens Its Doors to the World
On January 15, 1759, the British Museum opened in a Bloomsbury mansion as the world's first free national public museum, founded on a doctor's 71,000-object collection.