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• Today is Wednesday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2014. There are 350 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 15, 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.
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• On this date:
• In 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• In 1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The republic later became the state of Vermont.)
• In 1862, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln's choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be the new Secretary of War, replacing Simon Cameron.
• In 1919, in Boston, a tank containing an estimated 2.3 million gallons of molasses burst, sending the dark syrup coursing through the city's North End, killing 21 people.
• In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense).
• In 1947, the mutilated remains of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the "Black Dahlia," were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved.
• 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, known retroactively as Super Bowl I.
• In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
• In 1974, the situation comedy "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV.
• In 1989, NATO, the Warsaw Pact and 12 other European countries adopted a human rights and security agreement in Vienna, Austria.
• In 1993, in Paris, a historic disarmament ceremony ended with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons.
• In 1994, singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson died in Agoura Hills, Calif., at age 52.
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