On January 14, 2016. The White Paper on the Lightning Network by Joseph Poon and Thadeus Dryja published.  https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

On January 12, 2009, the first Bitcoin transaction was made between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney. In Block #170 . Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 BTC to the cypherpunk Hal Finney.

On January 11, 2009, Hal Finney, the software developer and Cypherpunk tweeted 'Running bitcoin,' becoming the first recipient of a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto.