Events on February 15 in history

Allmänna Idrottsklubben (February 15, 1891)

Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.

Allmänna Idrottsklubben (English: the public sports club), usually referred to as just AIK, is a professional sports club from Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1891, at the downtown address of Biblioteksgatan 8 in the district of Norrmalm, the club is the largest in Scandinavia. The club's achievements include Swedish championship titles in a slew of sports: football, ice hockey, bandy, handball, floorball, bowling, badminton, athletics, and many other sports, as well as Wimbledon championships and French Open in tennis (through Sven Davidson, Lennart Bergelin, and Ulf Schmidt).

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10 Mar

Strowger switch
Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
15 May

Rerum novarum
Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
20 May

Kinetoscope
History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

Events on February 15 in history

Allmänna Idrottsklubben (February 15, 1891)

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Events on 1891

Strowger switch

Rerum novarum

Kinetoscope