On this day …
January 15, 2015
- In 1559, Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey.
- In 1759, the British Museum opened.
- In 1844, the University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.
- In 1889, the Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, was incorporated in Atlanta.
- In 1892, James Naismith published the rules of basketball.
- In 1943, the world’s largest office building, The Pentagon, was dedicated in Arlington, Va.
- In 1967, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in Super Bowl I.
- In 1973, President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
- In 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York; all passengers and crew survived.
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