Sanarchive:Selected anniversaries/January 15

15 January:  Major events in the arts

• 1622 – The great French playwright Molière was baptized; he would go on to revolutionize comedy and satire in Western literature.
• 1929 – Martin Luther King Jr. was born; his legacy inspired countless works of art, music, and literature dedicated to civil rights and social justice.
• 1947 – The infamous Black Dahlia murder occurred in Los Angeles; the event became a dark obsession in American noir literature and cinema for decades.
• 1967 – The first Super Bowl halftime show took place, marking the beginning of a major annual platform for global pop music performances.
• 2001 – Wikipedia was launched; it fundamentally changed how the world accesses and categorizes knowledge about art history and human culture.

• Elizabeth Short (d. 1947)
• Dolores O'Riordan (d. 2018)
• Giorgio Olcese (d. 2023)