January 15

The fifteenth day of January
==Events==
* 588 BCE: Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BCE.
* 69: Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, but only rules for three months before committing suicide.
* 1559: Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 1995: Pope John Paul II offers Mass to an estimated crowd of between four and eight million in Luneta Park, Manila, Philippines. This is the largest single event in human history.
==Births==
* 1866: Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1931)
* 1918: Édouard Gagnon, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 2007)
* 1920: John Cardinal O'Connor, American Catholic cardinal (d. 2000)
* 1953: Kent Hovind, American evangelist and Young Earth creationist.
==Deaths==
* 69: Galba, Roman Emperor (b. 3 BCE)
* 570: Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475)
* 1672: John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)
==Feast days==
===Protestant===
====Lutheranism====
* Martin Luther King, Jr., renewer of society, martyr, 1968 (Commemoration) R – ELCA
===Roman Catholic===
* Saint Ita, virgin
* St. Macarius of Egypt
* St. Paul the Hermit
===Eastern Orthodoxy===
* Monk-martyr Pansophius of Alexandria (3rd century)
* Saint Ita, hermitess in Ireland and foster-mother of Saint Brendan
* Saint Gabriel, founder of Lesnov Monastery in Bulgaria (11th century)
* Saint Maximus of Nola
* Venerable Paul of Thebes (341)
* Venerable John Calabytes (the "hut-dweller") (5th century)
===Oriental Orthodoxy===
* St. Abeluzius in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
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