Today is Friday, January 15, the 15th day of 2010. There are 350 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1559, Queen Elizabeth I was crowned.

In 1919, German Communist leader Rosa Luxemburg and her colleague Karl Liebknecht were arrested and shot by soldiers after the failure of a left-wing uprising in Berlin.

In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.

In 1942, Jawaharlal Nehru was named to succeed Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of the Congress Party.

In 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon announced the suspension of all US offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations in Paris.

In 2000, masked gunmen opened fire in a hotel lobby in Belgrade, killing Serbian warlord Zeljko Raznatovic, better known as Arkan, who had been indicted by the UN war crimes tribunal for alleged atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia

Thought for Today

"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent." — Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).