| January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar. There are 343 days remaining (344 in leap years).
Events
- 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
- 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.
- 1824 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast.
- 1840 - British colonists
reach New Zealand.
- 1863 - The January
Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithunania and Belorussia. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from
occupation of Russia.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War:
Zulu troops massacre British
troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
- 1889 - Columbia
Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
- 1899 - Leaders of six Australian
colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
- 1901 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.
- 1905 - 'Bloody
Sunday' in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905
revolution.
- 1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
- 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald
becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
- 1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in
as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
- 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from
Nazi forces.
- 1944 - World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
- 1947 - KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- 1947 - Paul Ramadier becomes
Prime Minister of France.
- 1953 - The Crucible, a drama by
Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
- 1957 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1957 - The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in
Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting
more than 30 bombs.
- 1962 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's
membership.
- 1963 - Elysée treaty between
France and Germany.
- 1964 - Mumbai's lowest ever temperature
recorded (7.4°C).
- 1967 - Simon &
Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York
City. The recording is not released
until 16 July 2002.
- 1968 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, debuts on NBC.
- 1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe vs. Wade striking down state laws restricting abortion
during the first six months of pregnancy.
- 1973 - A chartered Boeing 707 exploded in
flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria killing 176.
- 1973 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing
champion status.
- 1980 - Andrei Sakharov is
arrested in Moscow.
- 1983 - Björn Borg retires from
tennis after winning five consecutive Wimbledon championships.
- 1984 - The Apple Macintosh,
the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the
graphical user interface, is introduced during
Super Bowl XVIII with the famous television commercial "1984".
- 1987 - Pennsylvania politician R.
Budd Dwyer commits suicide on national television.
- 1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
- 1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national
radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's
resignation.
- 1992 - Dr. Roberta Bondar
becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
- 1995 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In central Israel, two
suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves-up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
- 1997 - Madeleine
Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.
- 1998 - Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without
the possibility of parole.
- 2001 - Four of the Texas 7 are caught at a
convenience store in Woodland Park, Colorado and a
fifth killed himself inside a motor home.
- 2002 - AOL Time Warner
brings a federal suit against Microsoft alleging that the market for AOL's
Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft
started to give away a competing browser.
- 2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection.
- 2003 - The Netherlands vote for a
new parliament after the previous had only been into power for 86 days.
- 2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the
most distant man-made objects.
Births
- 1440 - Ivan III,
grand duke of Moscow (d. 1505)
- 1561 - Sir Francis Bacon,
philosopher (d. 1626)
- 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author and philosopher (d. 1781)
- 1775 - Andre Marie
Ampere, physicist (d. 1836)
- 1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron,
poet (d. 1824)
- 1849 - August
Strindberg, poet and writer (d. 1912)
- 1875 - D. W. Griffith,
director (d. 1948)
- 1875 - Wilhelmina
Rahner, magician Harry Houdini's wife and stage assistant (d.
1943)
- 1892 - Marcel Dassault,
French industrialist (d. 1986)
- 1893 - Conrad Veidt, actor (d.
1943)
- 1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American
hurdler
- 1903 - Fritz Houtermans,
physicist (d. 1966)
- 1904 - George
Balanchine, choreographer (d. 1983) (N.S.)
- 1906 - Robert E. Howard,
author (d. 1936)
- 1907 - Mary Dresselhuys,
Dutch actress (d. 2004)
- 1907 - Douglas Corrigan,
pilot (d. 1995)
- 1908 - Lev
Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (d. 1968)
- 1909 - U Thant, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d.
1974)
- 1909 - Ann Sothern, actress (d. 2001)
- 1911 - Bruno Kreisky,
Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
- 1915 - Heinrich Albertz,
theologian and politician (d. 1993)
- 1931 - Sam Cooke, singer (d. 1964)
- 1932 - Piper Laurie, actress
- 1934 - Bill Bixby, actor (d. 1993)
- 1935 - Seymour Cassell, American actor
- 1936 - Joseph Wambaugh,
author
- 1937 - Edén Pastora
Gómez, Nicaraguan rebel leader
- 1939 - Jeff Smith, chef (d. 2004)
- 1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer, member of the Shirelles (d. 1982)
- 1940 - John Hurt, actor
- 1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
- 1946 - Serge Savard, ice hockey player
- 1949 - Steve
Perry, Amnerican musician
- 1953 - Jim Jarmusch,
director
- 1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian
politician
- 1956 - John Wesley
Shipp, American soap opera actor
- 1957 - Mike Bossy, ice hockey player
- 1959 - Linda Blair, actress
- 1960 - Michael
Hutchence, musician ("INXS") (d. 1997)
- 1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, rapper,
actor
- 1965 - Diane Lane, American actress
- 1967 - Olivia d'Abo, actress
(The Wonder Years)
- 1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
- 1975 - Balthazar Getty, actor
- 1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata,
Japanese footballer
- 1978 - Roxanne Butterfield, American community activist
- 1978 - Chone Figgins,
Major League Baseball player
- 1980 - Christopher
Masterson, actor
- 1980 - Ben Moody, guitarist ("Evanescence")
- 1981 - Beverley
Mitchell, actress ("7th Heaven")
- 1981 - Willa Ford, singer
Deaths
- 1536 - Bernhard
Knipperdolling, Münster Rebellion leader
- 1666 - Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor of India (b. 1592)
- 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
- 1892 - Joseph Philo
Bradley, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1813).
- 1901 - Queen Victoria I of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
- 1921 - Captain
George Streeter (b. 1837)
- 1922 - Pope Benedict XV
(b. 1854)
- 1945 - Else
Lasker-Schuler, poet
- 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr.,
actor (b. 1892)
- 1959 - Mike Hawthorn, racing
champion (b. 1929)
- 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku,
American swimmer (b. 1890)
- 1973 - Lyndon B.
Johnson, President of the United
States (b. 1908)
- 1975 - Andrew George
Burry, manufacturer and businessman, dies at 101 (b. 1873)
- 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, Yorkshire and England opening batsman (b. 1894)
- 1987 - R. Budd Dwyer, Pennsylvania politician
- 1988 - Parker Fennelly,
comedian, actor
- 1993 - Abe Kobo, writer (b. 1924)
- 1994 - Telly Savalas, actor (b.
1924)
- 1995:
- 2000 - Craig Claiborne,
American writer, editor
- 2001:
- 2002:
- 2003 - Bill Mauldin, World War II
cartoonist
- 2004:
- 2005:
Holidays and observances
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