On January 15th in History
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On January 15th in 1944 - General Eisenhower arrives in England
On January 15th in 1945 - The Manhattan Project's G-5 Group, headed by Physicist's Donald Kerst and Seth Neddermeyer, take their first betatron pictures of a nuclear implosion at the Los Alamos Laboratory
On January 15th in 1947 - The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California
On January 15th in 1950 - 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Wash DC
On January 15th in 1951 - Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
On January 15th in 1953 - 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes & crashes in Washington DC station
On January 15th in 1953 - Harry S Truman became the first US President to use radio and television to give his farewell as he left office
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