January 22

January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 343 days remaining (344 in leap years).

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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.
• 1952 – The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service.
• 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 of Russia (d. 1505)
• 1561 – Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
• 1570 – Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
• 1592 – Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
• 1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
• 1775 – Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (d. 1836)
• 1788 – George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
• 1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish 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, Russian 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, Burmese 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)
• 1916 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer
• 1924 – J. J. Johnson, jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
• 1931 – Sam Cooke, singer (d. 1964)
• 1932 – Piper Laurie, actress
• 1934 – Bill Bixby, actor (d. 1993)
• 1935 – Seymour Cassell, American actor
• 1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936 – Joseph Wambaugh, author
• 1937 – Edén Pastora Gómez, Nicaraguan rebel leader
• 1939 – Jeff Smith, chef (d. 2004)
• 1940 – Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)
• 1940  – John Hurt, actor
• 1940 – George Seifert, American football coach
• 1946 – Serge Savard, hockey player
• 1949 – Steve Perry, Amnerican musician
• 1953 – Jim Jarmusch, director
• 1954 – Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
• 1954 – Chris Lemmon, American actor
• 1956 – John Wesley Shipp, American actor
• 1957 – Mike Bossy, hockey player
• 1959 – Linda Blair, actress
• 1960 – Michael Hutchence, musician (INXS) (d. 1997)
• 1965 – DJ Jazzy Jeff, rapper and actor
• 1965 – Diane Lane, American actress
• 1967 – Olivia d'Abo, actress
• 1972 – Gabriel Macht, American actor
• 1975 – Balthazar Getty, actor
• 1977 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• 1978  – Chone Figgins, Major League Baseball player
• 1980 – Christopher Masterson, actor
• 1980  – Ben Moody, guitarist (Evanescence)
• 1981 – Beverley Mitchell, actress
• 1981  – Willa Ford, singer

Deaths

• 1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling, Münster Rebellion leader
• 1666 – Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor of India (b. 1592)
• 1779 – Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
• 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:
  • Jerry Blackwell, professional wrestler (b. 1949)
  • Rose Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (b. 1890)
• 2000 – Craig Claiborne, American writer, editor
• 2001:
  • Tommie Agee, Major League Baseball player
  • Roy Brown, clown
• 2002:
  • Stanley Marcus, American retailer
  • Jack Shea, Olympics speed skating gold medalist
• 2003 – Bill Mauldin, World War II cartoonist
• 2004:
  • Billy May, American composer, musician
  • Ann Miller, American actress, dancer
• 2005:
  • César Gutiérrez, Major League Baseball player (b. 1943)
  • Carlo Orelli, last surviving Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
  • Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter and lyricist (b. 1924)
  • Rose Mary Woods, Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)

Holidays and observances

• Catholicism – Feast day of St. Vincent.
• New Zealand – Wellington Anniversary

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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