January 22
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January 22 is the 22nd day of the year of the calendar system we currently use. When there is not a leap year, there are 343 days after January 22. If there is a leap year, there are 344 days after January 22.
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[edit] People who were born
- 1440 - Ivan III of Russia (died 1505)
- 1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (had ideas) (died 1626)
- 1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (worked in government) (died 1631)
- 1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (died 1655)
- 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (died 1781)
- 1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, French physics scientist (died 1836)
- 1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (died 1824)
- 1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (died 1912)
- 1875 - D. W. Griffith, director (a person who leads the making of a movie) (died 1948)
- 1875 - Wilhelmina Rahner, Harry Houdini's wife and stage helper (died 1943)
- 1892 - Marcel Dassault, French industry worker (died 1986)
- 1893 - Conrad Veidt, actor (died 1943)
- 1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler
- 1903 - Fritz Houtermans, physics scientist (died 1966)
- 1904 - George Balanchine, Russian dance maker (died 1983) (N.S.)
- 1906 - Robert E. Howard, author (died 1936)
- 1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (died 2004)
- 1907 - Douglas Corrigan, pilot (died 1995)
- 1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physics scientist (died 1968)
- 1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (leader of the UN) (died 1974)
- 1909 - Ann Sothern, actress (died 2001)
- 1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Head leader of Austria (died 1990)
- 1915 - Heinrich Albertz, religion studier and government worker (died 1993)
- 1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
- 1924 - J. J. Johnson, jazz trombonist and song maker (died 2001)
- 1931 - Sam Cooke, singer (died 1964)
- 1932 - Piper Laurie, actress
- 1934 - Bill Bixby, actor (died 1993)
- 1935 - Seymour Cassell, American actor
- 1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemical scientist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1936 - Joseph Wambaugh, author
- 1937 - Edén Pastora Gómez, Nicaraguan rebel leader
- 1939 - Jeff Smith, chef (died 2004)
- 1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (died 1982)
- 1940 - John Hurt, actor
- 1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
- 1946 - Serge Savard, hockey player
- 1946 - Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols and other groups
- 1949 - Steve Perry, American 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) (died 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, guitar player (Evanescence)
- 1981 - Beverley Mitchell, actress
- 1981 - Willa Ford, singer
[edit] People who died
- 1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, Münster Rebellion leader
- 1666 - Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor (kind of leader) of India (born 1592)
- 1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (a person who was on Great Britain's side (born 1736)
- 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German human origins scientist (born 1752)
- 1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, associate justice (assistant judge) of the United States Supreme Court (born 1813).
- 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (born 1819)
- 1921 - Captain George Streeter (born 1837)
- 1922 - Pope Benedict XV (born 1854)
- 1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, poet
- 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., actor (born 1892)
- 1959 - Mike Hawthorn, racing champion (born 1929)
- 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (born 1890)
- 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States (born 1908)
- 1975 - Andrew George Burry, product maker and businessman, dies at 101 (born 1873)
- 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, Yorkshire and England opening cricket (game) batter (born 1894)
- 1987 - R. Budd Dwyer, Pennsylvania government worker
- 1988 - Parker Fennelly, comedian, actor
- 1993 - Abe Kobo, writer (born 1924)
- 1994 - Telly Savalas, actor (born 1924)
- 1995:
- 2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer, editor
- 2001:
- Tommie Agee, Major League Baseball player
- Roy Brown, clown
- 2002:
- Stanley Marcus, American person who sells things in stores
- Jack Shea, Olympics speed skating winner of the gold medal
- 2003 - Bill Mauldin, World War II cartoon maker
- 2004:
- Billy May, American music maker, musician
- Ann Miller, American actress, dancer
- 2005:
- César Gutiérrez, Major League Baseball player (born 1943)
- Carlo Orelli, last surviving Italian veteran of World War I (born 1894)
- Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter and writer of words to songs (born 1924)
- Rose Mary Woods, Watergate scandal person (born 1917)
[edit] Things that happened
- 565 - Eutychius is no longer Patriarch of Constantinople because of John Scholasticus.
- 1771 - Spain gives 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 happened in Poland, Lithunania and Belorussia. The reason that country-wide movement was to get back the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from being controlled by Russia.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops kill British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
- 1889 - Columbia Phonograph is started in Washington, DC.
- 1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss uniting.
- 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 government change.
- 1917 - World War I: US President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
- 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Prime Minister of theLabour Party (a political party).
- 1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australia-born Governor-General of Australia.
- 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom gets Tobruk from Nazi forces.
- 1944 - World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an attack on Anzio, Italy).
- 1947 - KTLA, the first company-operated television station west of the Mississippi River, starts working in Hollywood, California.
- 1947 - Paul Ramadier becomes Prime Minister (leader) of France.
- 1952 - The first jet plane made for making money, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service.
- 1953 - The Crucible, a play by Arthur Miller, starts being played on Broadway.
- 1957 - Israel leaves 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) makes Cuba no longer a member.
- 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 sent to people until 16 July 2002.
- 1968 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, starts being shown on NBC.
- 1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States shows its decision in Roe vs. Wade, getting rid of laws that limit abortion (terminating pregnancy) during the first six months of being pregnant.
- 1973 - A special 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 normal personal computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is first shown during Super Bowl XVIII with the famous television commercial "1984".
- 1987 - Pennsylvania government worker R. Budd Dwyer kills himself on television that is seen across the country.
- 1990 - Courts prove Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. put the 1988 Internet worm into the public.
- 1992 - Rebel forces control Zaire's country-wide radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government to quit.
- 1992 - Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.
- 1995 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In central Israel, two suicide bombers (people who explode bombs they carry on themselves) from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military passing point, killing 19 people from Israel.
- 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state (a government title) after the United States Senate said "yes".
- 1998 - Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski says he's 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 Microsoft to court saying that the amount of possible customers for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser.
- 2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest store that sells to regular people in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 2003 - The Netherlands vote for a new parliament (group of law makers) after the one before 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.
- 2006 - Kobe Bryant scores 81 points and in an NBA game, the second-highest total in league history.
[edit] Holidays and observances
- The Catholic Church - Feast day of St. Vincent.
- New Zealand - Wellington Anniversary
[edit] External links
- BBC: On This Day (May not be simple English)
