History for January 15

History for January 15 - On-This-Day.com:
Jean Baptiste Moliere 1622 - Playwright, Frederick Arthur Stanley 1841 - Gave Canada the Stanley Cup, Pierre S. DuPont 1870 - Industrialist


Edward Teller 1908 Physicist, Father of the hydrogen bomb, Lloyd Bridges 1913 Actor: ("Airplane!," "Airplane 2"), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - Pastor, leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement


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


1844 - The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.


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.


1943 - The Pentagon was dedicated as the world's largest office building just outside Washington, DC, in Arlington, VA. The structure covers 34 acres of land and has 17 miles of corridors.


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