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Jan 22, 1905: First Russian Revolution begins
In Russia, the revolution of 1905 begins when czarist troops open fire on a peaceful group of workers marching to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to petition their grievances to Czar Nicholas II. Some 500 protestors were massacred on "Bloody Sunday," setting off months of protest and disorder throughout Russia.
By January 1905, discontent with the czar's regime permeated nearly all classes in Russia, especially after the crushing January 2 defeat of the Russian navy at Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War. In October 1905, Nicholas, embattled on all sides, was forced to grant basic civil liberties and a representative national body, which would be elected by narrowly limited suffrage. However, this Parliament, known as the Duma, was dissolved after it opposed Nicholas' authority, and the remnants of the revolutionary movement were brutally suppressed by czarist troops.
A decade later, czarist Russia was bogged down in the mire of World War I, prompting the Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution of 1917, which crushed the czar's opposition and proclaimed Russia the world's first Marxist state.
Jan 22, 1905: Bloody Sunday Massacre in Russia
Well on its way to losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally explodes into violence in St. Petersburg in what will become known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre.
Under the weak-willed Romanov Czar Nicholas II, who ascended to the throne in 1894, Russia had become more corrupt and oppressive than ever before. Plagued by the fear that his line would not continue—his only son, Alexis, suffered from hemophilia—Nicholas fell under the influence of such unsavory characters as Grigory Rasputin, the so-called mad monk. Russia's imperialist interests in Manchuria at the turn of the century brought on the Russo-Japanese War, which began in February 1904. Meanwhile, revolutionary leaders, most notably the exiled Vladimir Lenin, were gathering forces of socialist rebellion aimed at toppling the czar.
To drum up support for the unpopular war against Japan, the Russian government allowed a conference of the zemstvos, or the regional governments instituted by Nicholas's grandfather Alexander II, in St. Petersburg in November 1904. The demands for reform made at this congress went unmet and more radical socialist and workers' groups decided to take a different tack.
On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Imperial forces opened fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds. Strikes and riots broke out throughout the country in outraged response to the massacre, to which Nicholas responded by promising the formation of a series of representative assemblies, or Dumas, to work toward reform.
Internal tension in Russia continued to build over the next decade, however, as the regime proved unwilling to truly change its repressive ways and radical socialist groups, including Lenin's Bolsheviks, became stronger, drawing ever closer to their revolutionary goals. The situation would finally come to a head more than 10 years later as Russia's resources were stretched to the breaking point by the demands of World War I.
Jan 22, 1779: Claudius Smith, "Cowboy of the Ramapos,"hangs
Famed Tory outlaw Claudius Smith meets his end on the gallows on this day in 1779 in Goshen, New York. In the wake of his death, Patriot civilians hope for relief from guerilla warfare in upstate New York.
Born in Brookhaven, New York, in 1736, Smith moved with his family to Orange County, New York, in 1741. Thought to have fought with Mohawk leader Joseph Brandt as a Tory defender of the crown during the New York campaign of 1777, Smith earned the label "Cowboy of the Ramapos" for his use of guerrilla tactics against Patriot civilians. Smith and his cohorts stole livestock and ambushed travelers on the Orange Turnpike between Canada and New York from the cave now memorialized as "Claudius Smith's Den" in Orange County's Harriman State Park.
Smith managed to escape justice until his gang murdered Patriot Major Nathaniel Strong in the course of a robbery. Patriot Governor George Clinton then issued a warrant for his arrest, offering a $1,200 reward for the capture of Smith, who was described as "7 feet tall" in his wanted poster. Captured on British-controlled Long Island by vigilantes in October, he and other members of his gang, including one of his sons, were returned to Patriot territory and hung near their home turf in Goshen.
Despite his less than savory exploits, Smith earned a reputation as a "robin hood" because he targeted the wealthy but was said to be generous with the poor. Because his mother reputedly warned him that, unless he reformed, he would "die with his boots on," Smith removed his footwear before he was hanged. Two of Smith's three sons belonged to his gang—one was hanged with his father; another took over the gang upon his death.
Legend has it that Claudius Smith's skull was filled with mortar and included in the edifice of the Goshen Court House.
Jan 22, 1982: Reagan links arms talks with Soviets to oppression in Poland
In a revival of the diplomacy "linkages" that were made famous by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon years, the administration of President Ronald Reagan announces that further progress on arms talks will be linked to a reduction of Soviet oppression in Poland. The U.S. ploy was but one more piece of the increasingly complex jigsaw puzzle of nuclear arms reduction.
Faced with a growing anti-nuke movement in the United States and abroad, and having drawn criticism for some off-the-cuff remarks about "winning" a nuclear war, President Reagan called for negotiations on reducing intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe. These talks began in November 1981 but quickly bogged down as both the U.S. and Soviet negotiators charged each other with acting in bad faith. Almost immediately, both nations began to increase their nuclear arsenals in Europe. Some speculated that neither side was truly seeking arms control, and the reaction of building up arms as a result caused a firestorm of protest in several western European nations.
Perhaps in an effort to divert attention from the failed talks, the Reagan administration in January 1982 linked further arms negotiations to Soviet actions in Poland, indicating that the U.S. would not engage in further talks until Soviet repression in Poland was eased. In that nation, the Soviet-backed communist government imposed martial law in late 1981 in an effort to destroy the growing Solidarity movement among Poland's labor unions. Claiming that arms reduction talks could not be "insulated from other events," the Reagan administration declared, "The continuing repression of the Polish people—in which Soviet responsibility is clear—obviously constitutes a major setback to the prospects for constructive East-West relations."
It was unclear whether the U.S. stance had any direct impact on the ongoing INF talks. Domestic U.S. political opposition to any arms control agreement with the Soviets, combined with intense mutual distrust between the Soviet Union and the United States during much of the Reagan administration, were much more important factors in the delay in finally securing an agreement. The INF agreement did eventually get signed in 1987, when new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev broke the ice for more fruitful talks.
Jan 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade
The Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion by handing down their decision in the case of Roe v. Wade. Despite opponents' characterization of the decision, it was not the first time that abortion became a legal procedure in the United States. In fact, for most of the country's first 100 years, abortion as we know it today was not only not a criminal offense, it was also not considered immoral.
In the 1700s and early 1800s, the word "abortion" referred only to the termination of a pregnancy after "quickening," the time when the fetus first began to make noticeable movements. The induced ending of a pregnancy before this point did not even have a name--but not because it was uncommon. Women in the 1700s often took drugs to end their unwanted pregnancies.
In 1827, though, Illinois passed a law that made the use of abortion drugs punishable by up to three years' imprisonment. Although other states followed the Illinois example, advertising for "Female Monthly Pills," as they were known, was still common through the middle of the 19th century.
Abortion itself only became a serious criminal offense in the period between 1860 and 1880. And the criminalization of abortion did not result from moral outrage. The roots of the new law came from the newly established physicians' trade organization, the American Medical Association. Doctors decided that abortion practitioners were unwanted competition and went about eliminating that competition. The Catholic Church, which had long accepted terminating pregnancies before quickening, joined the doctors in condemning the practice.
By the turn of the century, all states had laws against abortion, but for the most part they were rarely enforced and women with money had no problem terminating pregnancies if they wished. It wasn't until the late 1930s that abortion laws were enforced. Subsequent crackdowns led to a reform movement that succeeded in lifting abortion restrictions in California and New York even before the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
The fight over whether to criminalize abortion has grown increasingly fierce in recent years, but opinion polls suggest that most Americans prefer that women be able to have abortions in the early stages of pregnancy, free of any government interference.
Jan 22, 1998: Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings
n this day in 1998, in a Sacramento, California, courtroom, Theodore J. Kaczynski pleads guilty to all federal charges against him, acknowledging his responsibility for a 17-year campaign of package bombings attributed to the "Unabomber."
Born in 1942, Kaczynski attended Harvard University and received a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He worked as an assistant mathematics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, but abruptly quit in 1969. In the early 1970s, Kaczynski began living as a recluse in western Montana, in a 10-by-12 foot cabin without heat, electricity or running water. From this isolated location, he began the bombing campaign that would kill three people and injure more than 20 others.
The primary targets were universities, but he also placed a bomb on an American Airlines flight in 1979 and sent one to the home of the president of United Airlines in 1980. After federal investigators set up the UNABOM Task Force (the name came from the words "university and airline bombing"), the media dubbed the culprit the "Unabomber." The bombs left little physical evidence, and the only eyewitness found in the case could describe the suspect only as a man in hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses (depicted in an infamous 1987 police sketch).
In 1995, the Washington Post (in collaboration with the New York Times) published a 35,000-word anti-technology manifesto written by a person claiming to be the Unabomber. Recognizing elements of his brother's writings, David Kaczynski went to authorities with his suspicions, and Ted Kaczynski was arrested in April 1996. In his cabin, federal investigators found ample evidence linking him to the bombings, including bomb parts, journal entries and drafts of the manifesto.
Kaczynski was arraigned in Sacramento and charged with bombings in 1985, 1993 and 1995 that killed two people and maimed two others. (A bombing in New Jersey in 1994 also resulted in the victim's death.) Despite his lawyers' efforts, Kaczynski rejected an insanity plea. After attempting suicide in his jail cell in early 1998, Kaczynski appealed to U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. to allow him to represent himself, and agreed to undergo psychiatric evaluation. A court-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia, and Judge Burrell ruled that Kaczynski could not defend himself. The psychiatrist's verdict helped prosecutors and defense reach a plea bargain, which allowed prosecutors to avoid arguing for the death penalty for a mentally ill defendant.
On January 22, 1998, Kaczynski accepted a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in return for a plea of guilty to all federal charges; he also gave up the right to appeal any rulings in the case. Though Kaczynski later attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing that it had been involuntary, Judge Burrell denied the request, and a federal appeals court upheld the ruling. Kaczynski was remanded to a maximum-security prison in Colorado, where he is serving his life sentence.
Jan 22, 1981: Final portrait of John and Yoko is on the cover of Rolling Stone
After the shocking assassination of John Lennon, thousands of mourners gathered spontaneously outside his and Yoko Ono's Central Park West apartment building, the Dakota. Tens of thousands more gathered six days later in New York, Liverpool and other world cities to honor Yoko's request for a silent, 10-minute vigil in John's memory. Radio airwaves were saturated with Beatles' songs during the weeks that followed, as well as with John's most recent recordings, one of which—"(Just Like) Starting Over"—became a posthumous #1 hit in late December. By late January, the inauguration of Ronald Reagan and the release of the American hostages in Iran had pushed accounts of Lennon's death and the massive public response to it from newspaper headlines. Then, on January 22, 1981, Rolling Stone magazine's John Lennon tribute issue hit newsstands, featuring a cover photograph of a naked John Lennon curled up in a fetal embrace of a fully clothed Yoko Ono. The iconic Annie Liebowitz portrait would become the definitive image of perhaps the most photographed married couple in music history.
The now-famous photograph of John and Yoko is all the more poignant for having been taken on the morning of December 8, 1980, just twelve hours before Lennon's death. Sent by Rolling Stone to capture an image of Lennon alone for a planned upcoming cover, Liebowitz had to negotiate the issue with John. Liebowitz recalled years later that Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner "never told me what to do, but this time he did. He told me, 'Please get me some pictures without [Yoko].' Then I walk in, and the first thing [Lennon] says to me is 'I want to be with her.'" An angry Liebowitz reluctantly agreed to John's request, and the image she captured proved to be one of her most famous—one that Lennon told her on the spot had "captured [his] relationship with Yoko perfectly."
While the famous Rolling Stone image is sometimes called the final photograph of Lennon, it is in fact only the final portrait of him and Yoko together. The final photo of John was taken a few hours after Liebowitz's, by a fan waiting outside the Dakota. That photo captured John immediately after signing an autograph for Mark David Chapman, the man who would shoot him dead some six hour later.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by
John Scholasticus.
871 - Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred
of Wessex
1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at
the Vatican.
1510 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1517 - Turks conquer Cairo
1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
1575 - English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis &
William Byrd music press monopoly
1584 - Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (&
parts in 1812)
1588 - Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni"
(Reformed curia)
1673 - Postal service between New York & Boston
inaugurated
1689 - Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of
Lords
1689 - Prince Willem III calls English parliament together
1690 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against
French
1758 - Russian troops occupy Königsberg, East Prussia
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1760 - Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
1771 - Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1775 - Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw
Poland
English Monarch Queen Elizabeth IEnglish Monarch Queen
Elizabeth I 1798 - Coup of Midderigh
1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown, Michigan Territory
1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
1816 - Lord Byron completes "Parisina" &
"Siege of Corinth"
1817 - English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
1824 - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1831 - Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.
1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in
Calif
1857 - National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
1859 - Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres,
Hanover
1862 - Confederate government raises premium for volunteers
from $10 to $20
1863 - Union General Burnside's "Mud March"
1873 - Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England,
300 die
Naturalist Charles DarwinNaturalist Charles Darwin 1877 -
Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being
prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
1879 - Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South
Africa
1879 - James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri
after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
1879 - Battle at Rorkes Drift: British garrison of 150 holds
off 3,000-4,000 Zulus
1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's
Needle" erected in Central Park
1883 - England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust
MCG
1889 - Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in
NYC
1895 - National Association of Manufacturers organized in
Cincinnati
1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne
to discuss confederation.
1901 - After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria
postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
1905 - Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by
tsarist troops
1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver
Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
1909 - Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich
1910 - Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
1914 - Paul Claudel's "L'échange," premieres in
Paris
1918 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1924 - Baldwin government resigns in England
1924 - Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
1924 - KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1925 - Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu
1926 - Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
1930 - -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
1931 - French government of Steeg falls
1931 - VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs
Amsterdam
1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first
Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
1932 - British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
1934 - Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth,"
premieres in Leningrad
1936 - French Laval government falls
1938 - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's
Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
1939 - Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is
dedicated
1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness"
on CBS
1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941 - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from
Italians
1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942 - Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate
(8:44:06)
1943 - 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California
(state record)
1943 - Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]-
1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily
for July 10th
1943 - Temperature rises 49°F (9°C) in 2 minutes in
Spearfish, SD
1944 - During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at
Anzio Italy
1945 - Burma highway reopens
1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1947 - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens,
Hollywood CA
1947 - KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins
broadcasting
1948 - Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings
v WI Barbados
1949 - "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger
Theater NYC for 121 perfs
1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1950 - Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1951 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe
Ransom
1951 - Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after
beaning batter
Playwright Arthur MillerPlaywright Arthur Miller 1953 -
Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC
1955 - Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
1956 - 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1956 - Canadian Football Council forms
1957 - Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
1957 - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30
explosions, arrested
1958 - KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC)
1st broadcast
1959 - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown
objects
1960 - 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at
Philadelphia
1960 - French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general
Massu
1960 - Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight
boxing title
1962 - The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's
membership.
1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf
Tournament
1963 - The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and
Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
French President Charles de GaulleFrench President Charles
de Gaulle 1964 - Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured,
Wisconsin
1965 - US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
1967 - NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10
1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres
on NBC
1968 - Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module
tests made
1968 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee &
Phoenix
1969 - "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater
NYC for 110 performances
1969 - Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle
1969 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth
orbit
1969 - Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball
Hall of Fame
1970 - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, NY to London in 6½
hours
1970 - Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v
Australia, Cape Town
1971 - John & Yoko record "Power to the
People"
1972 - "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on
NBC TV
1972 - 22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA
Boxing Champ George ForemanBoxing Champ George Foreman 1973
- George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some
abortions
1973 - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign
boundary accord
1975 - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite,
launched
1976 - Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
1980 - Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner
banished to Gorki
1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour
1980 - West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series
Cup
1980 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red
Wings-Billy Smith 15th
1981 - O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of
New Orleans Saints
1982 - 75% of North America is covered by snow
1983 - 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main
engines; 22 seconds
1983 - Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an
overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96
1984 - Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball
record with 70 pts
1984 - Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round
skates
1984 - Super Bowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins,
38-9 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB
1985 - -30°F (-34°C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia
(state record)
1985 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1985 - Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
1986 - Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to
contras, says North
1987 - Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game,
NJ wins 7-5
1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and
kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to
debates on boundaries in journalism.
1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad &
Tobago v Leeward Is
1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS v
Transvaal
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike TysonHeavyweight Boxing
Champion Mike Tyson 1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight
boxing title
1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern
Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Super Bowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in
Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR
1990 - 17th American Music Award: Paula Abdul & Bobby
Brown win
1990 - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
1990 - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract
with SF Giants
1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing
the 1988 Internet worm.
1991 - Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit
Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart
attacks.
1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head
on airline ride
1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into
space
1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in
Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77
1994 - 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY
Rangers
1994 - 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
1994 - 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven
Speilberg
1994 - East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at Madison
Square Garden in NYC
1995 - Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22
killed
1995 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf
Tournament
1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1998 - NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
1998 - Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
1998 - World League of American Football becomes NFL East
1999 - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons
are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern
India.
2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United
States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer
10, one of the most distant man-made objects.
2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia,
becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2007 - The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton,
accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster,
British Columbia, Canada.
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O'Brien's last Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight
Show timeslot.
2013 - A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
1666 - Shah Jahan, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, died at the age of 74. He was the Mongul emperor of India that built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal. 1771 - The Falkland Islands were ceded to Britain by Spain. 1824 - The Asante army crushed British troops in the Gold Coast. 1879 - James Shields began a term as a U.S. Senator from Missouri. He had previously served Illinois and Minnesota. He was the first Senator to serve three states. 1879 - British troops were massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana. 1889 - The Columbia Phonograph Company was formed in Washington, DC. 1895 - The National Association of Manufacturers was organized in Cincinnati, OH. 1900 - Off of South Africa, the British released the German steamer Herzog, which had been seized on January 6. 1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son, succeeded her. 1905 - Insurgent workers were fired on in St Petersburg, Russia, resulting in "Bloody Sunday." 500 people were killed. 1917 - U.S. President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." America entered the war the following April. 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald became Britain's first Labour Prime Minister. 1936 - In Paris, Premier Pierre Laval resigned over diplomatic failure in the Ethiopian crisis. 1938 - "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder, was performed publicly for the first time, in Princeton, NJ. 1941 - Britain captured Tobruk from German forces. 1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II. 1947 - KTLA, Channel 5, in Hollywood, CA, began operation as the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River. 1950 - Alger Hiss, a former adviser to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, was convicted of perjury for denying contacts with a Soviet agent. He was sentenced to five years in prison. 1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics. 1953 - The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway. 1956 - Raymond Burr starred as Captain Lee Quince in the "Fort Laramie" debut on CBS radio. 1957 - Suspected "Mad Bomber" was arrested in Waterbury, CT. George P. Metesky was accused of planting more than 30 explosive devices in the New York City area. 1957 - The Israeli army withdrew from the Sinai. They had invaded Egypt on October 29, 1956. 1959 - British world racing champion Mike Hawthorn was killed while driving on the Guildford bypass. 1961 - Wilma Rudolph, set a world indoor record in the women’s 60-yard dash. She ran the race in 6.9 seconds. 1962 - Cuba's membership in the Organization of American States (OAS) was suspended. 1964 - Kenneth Kaunda was sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia. 1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", debuted on NBC TV. 1970 - The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 began in New York City and ended in London about 6 1/2 hours later. 1972 - The United Kingdom, the Irish Republic, and Denmark joined the EEC. 1973 - Joe Frazier lost the first fight of his professional career to George Foreman. He been the undefeated heavyweight world champion since February 16, 1970 when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis. 1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case (Roe vs. Wade) legalized abortion. 1983 - Bjorn Borg retired from tennis. He had set a record by winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships. 1984 - Apple introduced the Macintosh during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII. 1987 - Phil Donahue became the first talk show host to tape a show from inside the Soviet Union. The shows were shown later in the year. 1992 - Rebel soldiers seized the national radio station in Kinshasa, Zaire's capital, and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. 1995 - Two Palestinian suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip detonated powerful explosives at a military transit point in central Israel, killing 19 Israelis. 1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state. 1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pled guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole. 2000 - Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers met privately with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as they appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and reuniting him with his father in Cuba. 2001 - Former National Football League (NFL) player Rae Carruth was sentenced to a minimum 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Adams died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived and lives with the victim's mother. 2001 - Acting on a tip, authorities captured four of the "Texas 7" in Woodland Park, CO, at a convenience store. A fifth convict killed himself inside a motor home. 2002 - In Calcutta, India, Heavily armed gunmen attacked the U.S. government cultural center. Five police officers were killed and twenty others, including one pedestrian and one private security guard, were wounded. 2002 - Lawyers suing Enron Corp. asked a court to prevent further shredding of documents due to the pending federal investigation. 2002 - Amazon.com announced that it had posted its first net profit in the fourth quarter (quarter ending December 31, 2001). 2002 - AOL Time Warner filed suit against Microsoft in federal court seeking damages for harm done to AOL's Netscape Internet Browser when Microsoft began giving away its competing browser. 2002 - Marc Chagall's work "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was found at a postal installation in Topeka, KS. The 8x10 oil painting is valued at about $1 million. The work was stolen a year before form the Jewish Museum in New York City. 2002 - Kmart Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy making it the largest retailer in history to seek legal protection from its creditors. 2003 - In New York, the "Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsmen" exhibit opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2003 - It was reported that scientists in China had found fossilized remains of a dinosaur with four feathered wings.
1901 Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens). 1905 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg. 1938 Thornton Wilder's play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J. 1973 Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at age 64. 1973 The Supreme Court legalized some abortions in Roe v. Wade. 1997 The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/jan22.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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