January 15: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1493 - Christopher Columbus sets sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World.
2. 1559 - Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
3. 1782 - Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
4. 1844 - University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.
5. 1870 - A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
6. 1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, isincorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
7. 1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
8. 1943 - The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
9. 1962 - The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
10. 2005 - ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such ascalcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
11. Famous Birthdays: Nathan Söderblom (Swedish archbishop, Nobel Prize laureate), Pierre S. du Pont (American businessman), Lorenz Böhler (Austrian physician), Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate), Jean Bugatti (German-Italian engineer)

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