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.


1777 - The people of New Connecticut (now the state of Vermont) declared their independence.


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.


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.


1953 - Harry S Truman became the first U.S. President to use radio and television to give his farewell as he left office.


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.