On this day, Jan. 15

1559 England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1892 The original rules of basketball, devised by James Naismith, were published for the first time in Springfield, Mass., where the game originated.

1920 Henry Ford came to Pittsburgh to place in person $15 million worth of steel contracts in the area.

1929 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.

1967 The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10, in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

1978 Two students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, were slain in their sorority house. Ted Bundy was later convicted of the crime and sentenced to death, but he was executed for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, which had occurred three weeks after the sorority slayings.

1993 A historic disarmament ceremony ended in Paris with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons. Some items are from Stefan Lorant’s “Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City” (digital.library.pitt.edu/chronology).

— Compiled by Alyssa Brown Today’s birthdays: Actress Margaret O’Brien, 81. Actress Andrea Martin, 72. College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy White, 66. Actor-director Mario Van Peebles, 62. Rock musician Adam Jones (Tool), 54. Actor James Nesbitt, 54. Singer Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam),

52. Actor Chad Lowe, 51. Alt-country singer Will Oldham (aka Bonnie Prince Billy), 49. Actress Regina King, 48. Actor Eddie Cahill, 41. NFL quarterback Drew Brees, 40. Rapper/reggaeton artist Pitbull, 38. Actor Victor Rasuk, 34. Actress Jessy Schram, 33. Electronic dance musician Skrillex, 31. Actress/singer Dove Cameron, 23. Singer-songwriter Grace VanderWaal (TV: “America’s Got Talent”),

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Thought for today: “I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘is-ness’ of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the ‘ought-ness’ that forever confronts him.”