Historical Events for 15th January 2023

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1559 - Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1831 - 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1892 - Basketball rules first published in Triangle Magazine, written by James Naismith
1907 - Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
1962 - Derveni Papyrus rediscovered - Europe's oldest surviving manuscript from c. 340 B.C., commentary on a Orphic poem, found in a tomb in Derveni, Northern Greece
1972 - TV drama "Emergency" with Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1994 - Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist
1998 - NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
2019 - Theresa May's Brexit deal with the EU is rejected by UK parliament 432 votes to 202, largest parliamentary defeat in its democratic era
2019 - LGBTQ activists accuse the Russian republic of Chechnya of a new gay purge with 40 detained and two killed

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