January 15, 2015

January 15th in History Part II


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On January 15th in 1877 - US Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens

On January 15th in 1882 - 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)

On January 15th in 1889 - The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia

On January 15th in 1892 - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass

On January 15th in 1908 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority became America's first Greek-letter organization established by African-American college women

On January 15th in 1919 - 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21

On January 15th in 1927 - The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself remains in force


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