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On This Day In History for January 15, 2025
This is the 15th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining in 2025.
- It was on this date in 1759, that The British Museum opened to the public.
- 207 years ago today, a paper by David Brewster was read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a “supplement” (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
- It was 136 years ago today that The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, was incorporated in Atlanta.
- James Naismith published the rules of basketball on this date in 1892.
- Also today in 1910, Construction ended on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft).
- January 15, 1919, a wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150 – it was known as the Great Molasses Flood.
- On January 15, 1936, the first building to be completely covered in glass finished construction. It was built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company in Toledo, Ohio.
- January 15, 1967, The first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35 -10.
- Also on January 15, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 5.
- We jump ahead to 2001, Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, was launched on January 15. Happy Wikipedia Day.
- January 15, 2005, ESA’s SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovered elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist, Sofia Kovalevskaya, born on this date in 1850.
- American businessman and philanthropist, Pierre S. du Pont was born 155 years ago today.
- Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, born on this date in 1895.
- Hungarian-American physicist and academic, Edward Teller was born 117 years ago today.
- Lloyd Bridges, the American actor was born 112 years ago today.
- Born January 15, 1922, English geneticist Sylvia Lawler.
- American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate, Martin Luther King Jr., born on this date in 1929.
- Born January 15, 1933, English chemist and academic Peter Maitlis.
Listener Birthdays
- 3 – Thomas Gideon (The Command Line Podcast)
- 6 – Steve Therrien (Canada)
- 8 – Elvis!
- 9 – Lingo from the Brit & Yankee pubcast
- 13 – Tim Cook
- 14 – Glynne Tolar
- 15 – Ralph Whitfield (aka GoofyRalph)
- 17 – fuffy_frog (aka Kristina) originally from Canada but now from Thailand
- 21 – Michael Rabalais
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for January 15 , 2025
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News
- Student just built a working fusion reactor for less than $2,000 – The Brighter Side of News
- Orange dwarf cave crocodiles: The crocs that crawled into a cave, ate bats, and started mutating into a new species | Live Science
- This researcher claims only one breakthrough stands between humanity and a 1,000-year lifespan – Jason Deegan
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