Historical Events In January - 15

1889  On this day in history the Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.  

1891  Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time) on this day in history.  

1892  Dr. James Naismith publishes, for the first time, the thirteen rules of basketball the game he invented the previous winter, in Springfield, Massachusetts on January - 15.  

1892  On January - 15 basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass  

1892  On this day in history frank Hutchens, composer  

1893  D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game) on January - 15.  

1894  On this day in history edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization  

1895  Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record on January - 15.  

1895  French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar on January - 15.  

1896  Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London on this day in history.  

1896  On this day in history jacobo Ficher, composer  

1896  Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72 on January - 15.  

1899  Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman) on January - 15.  

1900  SCNEC soccer team forms on January - 15.  

1900  Caesar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son) on this day in history.  

1902  On this day in history abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, king (Saudi Arabia)  

1904  Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.  

1905  On this day in history coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater  

1906  On January - 15 aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate  

1907  On this day in history gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them  

1907  On this day in history 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest  

1908  On January - 15 c Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wicket partnership 243 for Australia  

1908  On this day in history c Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust  

1908  Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project) on this day in history.  

1909  Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars) on this day in history.  

1909  On January - 15 ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85  

1911  Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line) on this day in history.  

1911  On January - 15 wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49  

1913  On January - 15 telephone service begins between New York and Berlin.  

1913  The birth of Lloyd Bridges, American actor on this day in history.  

1913  On this day in history lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)  

1914  Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian on January - 15.  

1915  On this day in history japan claims economic control of China  

1915  On this day in history guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63  

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1432  On January - 15 birth of afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481)  

1481  Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511) was born on January - 15.  

1507  Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran) was born on January - 15.  

1538  Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599) was born on this day in history.  

1567  Black Box, [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation) was born on January - 15.  

1622  On January - 15 birth of molière, French playwright (d. 1673)  

1671  On this day in history birth of abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)  

1674  Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762) was born on January - 15.  

0069  On this day in history death of servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70  

0570  Death of Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475) on January - 15.  

0936  On this day in history death of king Rudolph of France  

1208  On January - 15 death of peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered  

1345  Death of Martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler on January - 15.  

1481  Death of Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511) on this day in history.  

1595  Death of Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546) on January - 15.  

1672  On January - 15 death of john Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594)