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The 15th day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days until the end of the year.
1. In London on January 15, 1797 was first presented to the general public cylinder, meaning the headdress of a real gentleman, the performance turned out to be a complete fiasco - John Getherington - the inventor of this headdress, caused public disorder by his walk on a busy street in a cylinder of his own making.
2. To speed up the filling of the English-language world encyclopedia, Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales launched the Wikipedia website on January 15, 2001. Since then, any user of the World Wide Web could participate in writing and editing the encyclopedia. Initially there existed in the information space Nupedia, a project of encyclopedia in English, realizing the principles of freedom of information. Nupedia articles were written by scientists and people from the academic environment.