Historical Events In January - 15

1889  The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia on January - 15.   

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  Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass on January - 15.   

1892  Frank Hutchens, composer on January - 15.   

1893  D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game) on this day in history.   

1894  Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization on January - 15.   

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

1895  French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar on this day in history.   

1896  On January - 15 henry Arthur Jones' "Michael & his Lost Angel," premieres in London   

1896  Jacobo Ficher, composer on this day in history.   

1896  On January - 15 matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72   

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  Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, king (Saudi Arabia) on January - 15.   

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  Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate on January - 15.   

1907  Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them on this day in history.   

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

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

1908  C Hill & R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Aust on this day in history.   

1908  Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project) on January - 15.   

1909  On this day in history elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)   

1909  On this day in history ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85   

1911  On this day in history cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)   

1911  Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49 on January - 15.   

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

1913  On January - 15 the birth of Lloyd Bridges, American actor   

1913  On January - 15 lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)   

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

1915  On January - 15 japan claims economic control of China   

1915  Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

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1432  Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481) was born on this day in history.   

1481  On this day in history birth of ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)   

1507  Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran) was born on this day in history.   

1538  Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (d. 1599) was born on January - 15.   

1567  On January - 15 birth of black Box, [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation)   

1622  On this day in history birth of molière, French playwright (d. 1673)   

1671  On January - 15 birth of abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian (d. 1704)   

1674  On this day in history birth of prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer (d. 1762)   

0069  On January - 15 death of servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70   

0570  Death of Saint Ita, Irish nun (b. 475) on this day in history.   

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

1208  Death of Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered on January - 15.   

1345  On this day in history death of martin Zaccaria, Italo-Greek ruler   

1481  On January - 15 death of ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)   

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

1672  Death of John Cosin, English clergyman (b. 1594) on January - 15.