1/15/1892 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
Unlike baseball with its mythological creator and shadowy past, stretching back into the schoolyards of mideval Europe, basketball seems to have a credible inventor and an official beginning. The original game did not involve dribbling, utilizing passing only to move the ball, but most of the original rules, with slight variations, are still in force.
External Link:
Official Website of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Generational Link:
World War Cycle - Missionary Awakening Era - Second Turning, Awakening (1886-1909)
Also, 1/15/1967 - In the first ever Super Bowl, the Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.
Biography:
b. 1/15/1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. April 4, 1968)
Generational Link:
World War Cycle - Silent Generation, - Artist (Adaptive) (1925-1942)
Elsewhere:
1/15/1559 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey by Owen Oglethorpe, the Bishop of Carlisle, instead of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
b. 1/15/1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. September 28, 1970)
Also, 1/15/1906 - Aristotle Onassis
A Cycle Ago (1/13/1930):
Mickey Mouse comic strip makes its first appearance.
News Today / History Tomorrow (1/13/2007):
Fourteen advisers to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's center for human rights resigned today, citing his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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