January 15 has several significant events in Mississippi history. Here are five interesting facts about this day:

1. In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified by Mississippi, officially abolishing slavery in the state. It was the second state in the country to do so, following Illinois.

2. On January 15, 1929, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He would later become a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and was instrumental in the fight against racial segregation and discrimination in the United States.

3. In 1864, during the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman burned the city of Meridian, Mississippi, as part of the campaign to destroy Confederate infrastructure in the region.

4. On January 15, 1934, legendary blues musician Robert Johnson made his first music recordings in San Antonio, Texas. Johnson's music would go on to influence countless musicians, and his life and career have become the stuff of legend and myth.

5. In 1994, Mississippi became the last state in the US to formally ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The amendment had been passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified by the necessary number of states in 1920, but Mississippi and several other Southern states had refused to ratify it until many years later.