
January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 343 days remaining (344 in leap years). == Events == *565 - Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John III of Constantinople. * 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England. * 1824 - Ashantis crush United Kingdom forces in the Gold Coast (British colony). * 1840 - United Kingdom colonists reach New Zealand. * 1863 - The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia. * 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops massacre United Kingdom 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 of the United Kingdom becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. * 1905 - 'Bloody Sunday (1905)' in St. Petersburg, Russia, beginning of the 1905 revolution. * 1917 - World War I: President of the United States Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. * 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Party (UK) 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 de Havilland 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 and Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The Live In New York City, 1967 is not released until July 16 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 (television commercial)"''. * 1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on national television. * 1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer 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 Canada 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) Gregorian Calendar *1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer (d. 1941) *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 (TV personality), 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 (musician), 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 *1965 - Andrew Roachford, UK singer/songwriter *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, Mughal Empire 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 swimming (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 - Budd Dywer, 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 political family (b. 1890) *2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer, editor *2001: **Tommie Agee, Major League Baseball player **Roy Brown (clown), clown * 2002: **Stanley Marcus, American retailer **Jack Shea, Olympic Games 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, Mexico songwriter and lyricist (b. 1924) **Rose Mary Woods, Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917) ==Holidays and observances== * Catholicism - Feast day of Vincent of Saragossa. * New Zealand - Wellington Anniversary == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22 BBC: On This Day] ---- January 21 - January 23 - December 22 - February 22 -- Historical anniversaries bs:22. januar ka:22 იანვარი la:22 Ianuarii vi:22 tháng 1
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January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 343 days remaining (344 in leap years). == Events == *565 - Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John III of Constantinople. * 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England. * 1824 - Ashantis crush United Kingdom forces in the Gold Coast (British colony). * 1840 - United Kingdom colonists reach New Zealand. * 1863 - The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia. * 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops massacre United Kingdom 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 of the United Kingdom becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies. * 1905 - 'Bloody Sunday (1905)' in St. Petersburg, Russia, beginning of the 1905 revolution. * 1917 - World War I: President of the United States Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. * 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Party (UK) 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 de Havilland 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 and Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The Live In New York City, 1967 is not released until July 16 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 (television commercial)"''. * 1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on national television. * 1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer 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 Canada 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) Gregorian Calendar *1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Soviet/Russian children's writer (d. 1941) *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 (TV personality), 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 (musician), 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 *1965 - Andrew Roachford, UK singer/songwriter *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, Mughal Empire 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 swimming (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 - Budd Dywer, 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 political family (b. 1890) *2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer, editor *2001: **Tommie Agee, Major League Baseball player **Roy Brown (clown), clown * 2002: **Stanley Marcus, American retailer **Jack Shea, Olympic Games 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, Mexico songwriter and lyricist (b. 1924) **Rose Mary Woods, Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917) ==Holidays and observances== * Catholicism - Feast day of Vincent of Saragossa. * New Zealand - Wellington Anniversary == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/22 BBC: On This Day] ---- January 21 - January 23 - December 22 - February 22 -- Historical anniversaries bs:22. januar ka:22 იანვარი la:22 Ianuarii vi:22 tháng 1
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