January 15th

Today's Highlight in History:
On January 15th, 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior was born in Atlanta.

On this date:
In 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth the First was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

In 1844, the University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.

In 1870, the Democratic party was represented as a donkey for the first time in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in %26quot;Harper's Weekly.%26quot;

In 1892, the rules of basketball were published for the first time, in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the game originated.

In 1919, pianist and statesman Ignace Jan Paderewski became the first premier of the newly created republic of Poland.