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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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