Wednesday, January 15, 2014

History for January 15 - A King and a bunch of other stuff

History for January 15 - On-This-Day.com:

85th birth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-68).


Birth anniversaries of Lloyd Bridges (1913-98), Edward Teller (1908-2003).


1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 


1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.

 

1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball. 



1967 - The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10. 



1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV. 



1986 - Republican President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January. 

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