Original studios of WWJ-TV, now a museum

WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations group, with studios in the suburb of Southfield. Channel 62 was founded as WGPR-TV in 1975 by William V. Banks as the first Black-owned television station in the continental United States. It produced its own shows and helped launch the careers of Black television hosts and executives such as Pat Harvey, Shaun Robinson, Sharon Dahlonega Bush, and Amyre Makupson. In 1994, when a major affiliation switch threatened to leave CBS without an affiliate station in Detroit, the network moved to buy WGPR-TV and dropped the existing programming in favor of CBS and syndicated programs, later changing the call letters to WWJ-TV. The station's original studios (pictured) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and preserved as a museum that opened on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January 2017. A full news department began operation in January 2023. (Full article...)

Kreuzkirche in 1945

• ... that Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst (How Deserted Lies the City), a motet composed by Rudolf Mauersberger after the bombing of Dresden, was first performed in the destroyed Kreuzkirche (pictured)?
• ... that instead of paying homage to a visiting King Gustaf VI Adolf, Swedish headmaster Carl Segerståhl took his students swimming in a nearby lake?
• ... that Wikipedia editors have organized various campaigns to improve LGBT coverage on the site?
• ... that Olipop, with more than $100 million in revenue, has an all-remote workforce?
• ... that Illinois senator Mark Kirk returned to his former high school as an adult to create a UNICEF club?
• ... that the 2024 season for Seattle Sounders FC will be their first with a new logo?
• ... that while developing the sound effects for Letterpress, Loren Brichter spit in his microphone?
• ... that Line 51 of the Amsterdam Metro was called an express tram because the term "metro" was too controversial in the city?

Frederik X

• Margrethe II abdicates and is succeeded by Frederik X (pictured) as King of Denmark.
• Lai Ching-te is elected President of Taiwan.
• ongoing attacks on ships in the Red Sea
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• Archaeologists announce the discovery of a cluster of ancient cities in the Amazon rainforest, which predates known complex Amazonian societies by more than a millennium.

January 15: John Chilembwe Day in Malawi

• 1857 – In British Hong Kong, hundreds of Europeans were non-lethally poisoned by arsenic in bread from a locally owned bakery, leading to geopolitical tension.
• 1934 – At least 10,700 people died when an earthquake registering 8.0 M_w struck Nepal and the Indian state of Bihar.
• 1974 – American serial killer Dennis Rader, also known as the "BTK killer", murdered his first four victims.
• 1991 – The Victoria Cross for Australia was instituted by letters patent; the first Commonwealth realm with a separate Victoria Cross award in its honours system.
• 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its climb out from New York City and made an emergency landing in the Hudson River (featured).