1541 King Francis I of France gave Jean-François Roberval (c. 1500–1560) on January 15, 1541 a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the "Holy Catholic faith".
1559 Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London on January 15, 1559 beginning the Elizabethan age. The coronation was conducted in a mixture of Latin and English. Before Elizabeth I's reign, the coronation service was all in Latin. Her coronation robes were patterned with Tudor roses and trimmed with ermine.
1622 French playwright Molière, was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin on January 15, 1622 in Paris, the son of Jean Poquelin, a carpet shop owner and Marie Cressé, the daughter of a prosperous bourgeois family. At the age of 21, he joined the actress Madeleine Béjart and founded the Illustre Théâtre with 630 livres. It was at this time that he began to use the pseudonym Molière, probably to spare his father the shame of having an actor in the family.
1697 The Salem Witch Trials took place in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. During the Trials, over 150 people were arrested and put in jail after being accused of practicing witchcraft. 20 people were executed, all but one of those deemed to be witches were killed by hanging. On January 15, 1697, Salem and the Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed a day of fasting and repentance before God for the tragic error and folly of the Salem witch trials.
1759 The British Museum in London first opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury on January 15, 1759: Visitors had to apply for tickets 14 days in advance. The original British Museum collection was 71,000 books, antiquities and natural specimens bequeathed to the nation by Sir Hans Sloane, the inventor of milk chocolate, in 1753.
1775 Italian composer Giovanni Battista Sammartini died on January 15, 1775. Sammartini is known for contributing to the development of the symphony by expanding its form and structure, and for being one of the first composers to write symphonies in a style that prefigured the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
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1622 French playwright Molière, was born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin on January 15, 1622 in Paris, the son of Jean Poquelin, a carpet shop owner and Marie Cressé, the daughter of a prosperous bourgeois family. At the age of 21, he joined the actress Madeleine Béjart and founded the Illustre Théâtre with 630 livres. It was at this time that he began to use the pseudonym Molière, probably to spare his father the shame of having an actor in the family.
1697 The Salem Witch Trials took place in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. During the Trials, over 150 people were arrested and put in jail after being accused of practicing witchcraft. 20 people were executed, all but one of those deemed to be witches were killed by hanging. On January 15, 1697, Salem and the Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed a day of fasting and repentance before God for the tragic error and folly of the Salem witch trials.
1759 The British Museum in London first opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury on January 15, 1759: Visitors had to apply for tickets 14 days in advance. The original British Museum collection was 71,000 books, antiquities and natural specimens bequeathed to the nation by Sir Hans Sloane, the inventor of milk chocolate, in 1753.
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1775 Italian composer Giovanni Battista Sammartini died on January 15, 1775. Sammartini is known for contributing to the development of the symphony by expanding its form and structure, and for being one of the first composers to write symphonies in a style that prefigured the classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
1777 A group of settlers established the Vermont Republic on January 15, 1777 as an independent state during the American Revolutionary War. It declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colony of Quebec, and the U.S. states of New Hampshire and New York.
1815 Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Lord Horatio Nelson, died of amoebic dysentery on January 15, 1815, aged 49. After Nelson died, Lady Hamilton recklessly spent the healthy annuities left her by her lover and her late husband and fell into poverty. She spent a year in a virtual debtors' prison, until a London Alderman helped Emma which enabled her release. Lady Hamilton fled to Calais, France to try to escape her creditors, where she lived for 18 months before dying in poverty.
1822 After being occupied by the Ottoman Empire for four centuries, The Greek War of Independence began February 23, 1821. The first country to recognize Greek independence was not any of the western powers, but Haiti in a letter dated January 15, 1822.
1844 Charles Dickens’s son Francis was born on January 15, 1844. Francis Dickens joined the North-West Mounted Police as a Sub Inspector in Canada in 1874 shortly after the March West which brought the original police force of 300 members to the modern provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. He served at Fort Walsh, Fort Macleod and Fort Pitt, getting promoted to Inspector in 1880.
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| Francis Dickens as an Inspector in the North-West Mounted Police (1884) |
1863 In 1844, the Canadian inventor Charles Fenerty and the German F. G. Keller independently developed processes for pulping wood fibers. Nineteen years later, on January 15, 1863, The Boston Weekly Journal became the first newspaper to be printed on wood pulp paper. The Boston Daily Journal of the same date was printed on the regulation rag paper.
1867 The UK’s worst ice skating disaster occurred on January 15, 1867 after 40 people drowned or died from hypothermia in Regent’s Park, London, when the ice on the lake broke. At the time, ice skating on Regent's Lake was a popular activity, but safety measures were limited. The disaster occurred after a period of exceptionally cold weather, during which Regent's Lake froze over completely. However, a sudden thaw caused the ice to weaken and break, leading to the tragedy.
1870 On January 15, 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. The symbol gave everyone such a ‘kick’ that it has stuck to the Democrats to this day.
1876 The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, was published for the first time in Paarl, South Africa, on January 15, 1876. The newspaper's founders, J.H. Hofmeyr and G.S. Preller, aimed to promote the use of Afrikaans as a written language and to provide a platform for the discussion of political and cultural issues. The newspaper was published until 1878.
1885 The first known photograph of a snowflake was taken by Wilson Alwyn Bentley, an American farmer and self-taught scientist, in the late 19th century. Bentley used a microscope and a camera to capture detailed images of individual snowflakes.
1889 John Pemberton, a former Confederate officer turned pharmacist, created a new beverage at his Atlanta Pemberton Chemical Company in 1886. It was called Coca-Cola after two of its ingredients, coca leaves and kola nuts. The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, was incorporated in Atlanta on January 15, 1889.
1892 In December 1891, Canadian YMCA trainer James Naismith set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons. Naismith nailed two peach baskets on opposite ends of the YMCA International Training School in Massachusetts and instructed his students to toss soccer balls into them. Half-bushel peach baskets were used at first, thus providing the name "basketball." James Naismith first published his basketball rules on January 15, 1892.
1910 Construction ended on January 15, 1910 on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the tallest dam in the world at the time, at 325 feet. It was named after the famous Wild West figure William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who founded the nearby town of Cody and owned much of the land now covered by the reservoir formed by its construction.
1911 Ann Jemima Allebach (1874 – 1918) was an American educator and suffragette. She became the first woman to be ordained as a Mennonite minister in North America on January 15, 1911. There was not another Mennonite woman ordained until 1973.
1925 General Electric, Phillips, and other light bulb manufacturers colluded against consumers and created the 'Phoebus Cartel' on January 15, 1925 in Geneva. The Cartel conspired to reduce the 1925 light bulb life expectancy from 2,500 hours down to only 1,000 hours and at the same time, to increase the price per bulb. They had intended the Phoebus Cartel to last for thirty years (1925 to 1955). However, the cartel ceased operations in 1939 owing to the outbreak of World War II.
1932 The greatest snowfall recorded in downtown Los Angeles was 2.0 inches (5 cm) on January 15, 1932. At least two other appreciable snowfalls have been recorded in the City of Angels - on January 12, 1882, and on January 9, 1949.
1936 The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, was completed in Toledo, Ohio on January 15, 1936. Several large glass companies have their origins in Toledo and the city is known as the Glass City because of its long history of innovation in all aspects of the glass industry.
1943 The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, was dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. on January 15, 1943. The Pentagon is about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the building.
1967 The first American Football Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 1967. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10. It remains the only Super Bowl that was broadcast simultaneously by two television networks: NBC and CBS. Cost of a ticket was $12.00.
1936 The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, was completed in Toledo, Ohio on January 15, 1936. Several large glass companies have their origins in Toledo and the city is known as the Glass City because of its long history of innovation in all aspects of the glass industry.
1943 The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, was dedicated in Arlington, Virginia. on January 15, 1943. The Pentagon is about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the building.
1967 The first American Football Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 1967. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10. It remains the only Super Bowl that was broadcast simultaneously by two television networks: NBC and CBS. Cost of a ticket was $12.00.
1970 Nigeria was plunged into a civil war between 1967 and 1970. The conflict was caused by the attempted secession of the south-eastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra by the Christian Igbo people. After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrendered on January 15, 1970, ending the Civil War. It was the first modern war between black Africans and left the Nigerian economy greatly weakened.
1972 Between January 14 and January 15 1972, a downslope chinook wind event caused the temperature in Loma, Montana, to swing from -54°F to 49°F, landing the record for the greatest temperature swing in 24 hours.
1975 The Angolan War of Independence started in 1961 when a protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turned into a revolt. The war formally lasted until January 15, 1975, when Portugal and the nationalist factions UNITA, the MPLA and the FNLA signed the Alvor Agreement, ending the conflict. Angola gained independence ten months later.
1992 Johnny Cash was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on January 15, 1992. The Man in Black was also inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame during his lifetime.
2001 The online encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. It began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project founded by Wales, with Sanger as editor-in-chief. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia. The origin of the term 'Wiki' comes from the Hawaiian word wikiwiki which means fast, quick or informal.
2015 Mary Barra was appointed the CEO of General Motors Company on January 15, 2014. She is the first female CEO of a major global automaker. Mary Barra, changed the workplace dress code of General Motors from a complicated 10-page document to two words: "Dress appropriately."
2016 ASASSN-15lh is a superluminous supernova that was detected by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) in the southern constellation Indus. The discovery, confirmed with several other telescopes, was formally described and published on January 15, 2016. ASASSN-15lh is the most luminous supernova ever detected; at its brightest it was at least 20 times brighter than the whole Milky Way, with an energy hundreds of billions times greater than the Sun.
2016 Oregon local Joemel Panisa was cleaning his home office in January 2017 when he found a lotto ticket he'd bought a year previously on January 15, 2016 and forgotten about. The ticket was worth $1 million and Panisa claimed it the same day, eight days before the ticket was due to expire on January 17, 2017.
1992 Johnny Cash was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on January 15, 1992. The Man in Black was also inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame during his lifetime.
2001 The online encyclopedia Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. It began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project founded by Wales, with Sanger as editor-in-chief. Sanger coined the name Wikipedia. The origin of the term 'Wiki' comes from the Hawaiian word wikiwiki which means fast, quick or informal.
2015 Mary Barra was appointed the CEO of General Motors Company on January 15, 2014. She is the first female CEO of a major global automaker. Mary Barra, changed the workplace dress code of General Motors from a complicated 10-page document to two words: "Dress appropriately."
2016 ASASSN-15lh is a superluminous supernova that was detected by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) in the southern constellation Indus. The discovery, confirmed with several other telescopes, was formally described and published on January 15, 2016. ASASSN-15lh is the most luminous supernova ever detected; at its brightest it was at least 20 times brighter than the whole Milky Way, with an energy hundreds of billions times greater than the Sun.
2016 Oregon local Joemel Panisa was cleaning his home office in January 2017 when he found a lotto ticket he'd bought a year previously on January 15, 2016 and forgotten about. The ticket was worth $1 million and Panisa claimed it the same day, eight days before the ticket was due to expire on January 17, 2017.
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