January 15

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1782	Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.	Mercury Rev	I Collect Coins	Deserter's Songs
2	1844	University of Notre Dame receives its charter from the state of Indiana.	Supertramp	Rudy	Crime of the Century
3	1870	A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).	Beck	Jack-Ass	Odelay
4	1889	The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is originally incorporated in Atlanta.	Piebald	New Coke	When Life Hands You Lemons
5	1892	James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.	The Cardigans	My Favourite Game	Gran Turismo
6	1919	Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.	Nancy Sinatra	Sugar Town	Sugar Town
7	1936	The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.	Radiohead	Life in a Glasshouse	Amnesiac
8	1967	The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10	Tosca Tango Orchestra	Super Sport	Waking Life Soundtrack
9	2001	Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.	Out Hud	Dad, There's a Little Phrase Called Too Much Information	S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D.
10	2005	An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.	Hella	Who Ray	Wild Bass

(Historical facts about January 15 are from Wikipedia.)