January 15

On This Day In History
	1759: British Museum opened to the public Established by an act of Parliament in 1753, the British Museum-which counts among its world-renowned antiquities and archaeological holdings the Elgin Marbles and the Rosetta Stone-opened to the public this day in 1759.
British Museum, London, at dusk.
Biography Of The Day
	Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr., born this day in 1929, led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968 and was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Martin Luther King, Jr., during a march on Washington, D.C., in 1963.
More Events On This Day In History
	1967 In the first Super Bowl game, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League (AFL) by a score of 35 to 10.
	1909 American jazz drummer Gene Krupa was born in Chicago.
	1896 American photographer Mathew B. Brady, known for his portraits of politicians and images of the American Civil War, died alone and virtually forgotten in a hospital charity ward in New York City.
	1870 The donkey appeared as a symbol of the U.S. Democratic Party in a Thomas Nast cartoon.
1844	1844 The University of Notre Dame, founded in Indiana by the Congregation of the Holy Cross, was officially chartered.