January 15 Birthday
January 15 is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, observed in the United States as a federal holiday on the third Monday of January. King was born in Atlanta in 1929, the same year the stock market crashed. His life traced the arc of the Civil Rights Movement — Montgomery, Birmingham, the March on Washington, Memphis. He was 39 when he was killed. The holiday honoring him was signed into law in 1983 and first observed in 1986, but it took until 2000 for all 50 states to recognize it. People born on January 15 fall under the zodiac sign of Capricorn. The birthstone is Garnet and the birth flower is Carnation. Historical events on January 15 include 1559: Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England, 1967: First Super Bowl played, 2009: US Airways Flight 1549 lands on Hudson River. Famous people born on January 15 include Martin Luther King Jr. (1929), Aristotle Onassis (1906), Margaret O'Brien (1937).