January 15
Today in America's Present Past
1716 | Entrepreneur Philip Livingston was born.
1777 | Revolutionary War: Vermont declares its independence.
1782 | Founding: Robert Morris recommends a national mint and coinage to Congress.
1815 | War of 1812: British forces capture the USS President.
1865 | Civil War: Fort Fischer, North Carolina, is captured by the Union.
1870 | Thomas Nast’s cartoon in Harper’s Weekly cast the symbol of the Democrat Party as a donkey.
1876 | POTUS: First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson died.
1889 | The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated.
1891 | Indian Wars: America’s victory in the Ghost Dance War.
1892 | James Naismith publishes the “Rules of Basketball.”
1896 | Photographer Mathew Brady died.
1908 | Civil Rights: Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first African-American sorority, is founded.
1909 | Musician Gene Krupa was born.
1910 | The Buffalo Bill Damn was completed in Wyoming.
1913 | Actor Lloyd Bridges was born.
1919 | A wave of molasses from an exploding tank floods Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
1920 | Religious Leader John O’Connor was born.
1929 | Martin Luther King, Jr was born.
1929 | Painter George Cope died.
1936 | The first all-glass-clad building was completed by the Owens-Illionis Company in Toledo, Ohio.
1943 | U.S. completes construction of the Pentagon.
1948 | Musical Ronnie Van Zant was born.
1950 | General Henry “Hap” Arnold died.
1967 | The first football Super Bowl is in Los Angeles, California.
1970 | Entrepreneur Shane McMahon was born.
1970 | Entrepreneur William T. Piper died.
1973 | Vietnam War: Republican President Richard Nixon announces a suspension of offensive action.
1976 | Sara Jane Moore, the would-be assassin of Republican President Gerald Ford, was sentenced to life in prison.
1981 | Musician Pitbull (Armando Christian Pérez) was born.
1984 | Author Ben Shapiro was born.
2001 | Wikipedia was formally launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.
2004 | Author Olivia Goldsmith died.
2008 | Historian Robert V. Bruce died.
2009 | US Airways Flight 1549 lands safely after that, known as the “miracle on the Hudson.”
2016 | Poet Francisco X. Alarcon died.