January 22

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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

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.
1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops massacre British troops at Isandhlwana.
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 - The first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
1953 - The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.
1957 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (they invaded Egypt on October 29, 1956).
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.
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 - George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
1980 - Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
1983 - Bjorn Borg retires from tennis after winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced.
1990 - Robert Tappan Morris 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.
1995 - 11 airliners would have been bombed the previous day, January 21, and this day if Project Bojinka, an Al Qaeda plot, was not discovered in a Manila apartment on the night of January 5 and the morning of January 6
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 seeking damages. The suit alleges 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.