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22 Jan 1371
King Robert II of Scotland is crowned becoming the first monarch of the House of Stewart (-90)
22 Jan 1506
The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican
22 Jan 1517
Ottoman forces take Cairo capital of the Mamluk Sultanate
22 Jan 1584
Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
22 Jan 1588
Pope Sixtus V decrees Immense aeterni (Reformed curia)
22 Jan 1673
Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
22 Jan 1689
Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
22 Jan 1689
Prince William of Orange (future King William III of Britain) summons Convention Parliament to discuss ruling jointly with his wife Mary (daughter of exiled King James II)
22 Jan 1690
Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
22 Jan 1758
Russian troops occupy Knigsberg East Prussia [OSJan 11]
22 Jan 1760
Battle at Wandewash India British troops beat French
22 Jan 1775
Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
22 Jan 1813
Americans capture Frenchtown Michigan Territory
22 Jan 1814
1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held in New York City
22 Jan 1824
Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast
22 Jan 1840
New Zealand Company settlers arrive aboard the Aurora at Te Whanganui a Tara which becomes Port Nicholson Wellington
22 Jan 1850
Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif
22 Jan 1857
National Association of Baseball Players founded in New York
22 Jan 1859
Brahms 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres in Hanover
22 Jan 1862
Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from 10 to 20
22 Jan 1873
British SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England 300 die
22 Jan 1877
Arthur Tooth an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices
22 Jan 1879
Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
22 Jan 1879
James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
22 Jan 1879
Battle of Rorkes Drift British garrison of 150 holds off 3000-4000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.
22 Jan 1883
England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Australia at MCG
22 Jan 1914
Paul Claudels play Lchange premieres in Paris
22 Jan 1918
Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
22 Jan 1924
KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
22 Jan 1925
Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
22 Jan 1930
-35F (-37C) Mount Carroll Illinois (state record)
22 Jan 1931
VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
22 Jan 1931
Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia
22 Jan 1938
Our Town Thornton Wilders Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grovers Corners New Hampshire premieres (NJ)
22 Jan 1939
Aquatic Park near Fishermans Wharf San Francisco dedicated
22 Jan 1940
1st radio broadcast of Road to Happiness on CBS
22 Jan 1941
British and Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
22 Jan 1942
Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (84406)
22 Jan 1889
Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington D.C.
22 Jan 1890
Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
22 Jan 1895
National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
22 Jan 1899
Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation
22 Jan 1903
The Hay-Herran Treaty concerning the USAs right to the Panama Canal is signed by the Colombian Charge daffaires in Washington D.C. (never ratified)
22 Jan 1905
Dutchman Coen de Koning wins the 1500m 5000m & 10000m at World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Groningen Netherlands to become 2nd Dutchman to win a world title
22 Jan 1906
SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island British Columbia killing more than 130
22 Jan 1908
Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette violating the 1-day old Sullivan Ordinance banning women from smoking in public and is fined 5. Appearing before the judge she stated Ive got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law and I dont want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.
22 Jan 1909
Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich
22 Jan 1943
Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion of Sicily for July 10th
22 Jan 1943
Temperature rises 49F (9C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish South Dakota
22 Jan 1943
66.34 cm (26.12) precipitation over 24 hour period in Hoegees Camp California (state record)
22 Jan 1944
Allied forces begin landing at Anzio on the Italian mainland
22 Jan 1947
1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens in Hollywood California
22 Jan 1948
Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings v WI Barbados
22 Jan 1949
All for Love opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 performances
22 Jan 1949
Chinatown telephone exchange in San Francisco is closed
22 Jan 1951
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
22 Jan 1951
Fidel Castro is ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter
22 Jan 1953
NFL Draft Harry Babcock from University of Georgia first pick by San Francisco 49ers
22 Jan 1955
Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
22 Jan 1957
Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions arrested
22 Jan 1958
KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
22 Jan 1959
USAF concludes that less than 1% of UFOs are unknown objects
22 Jan 1960
Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
22 Jan 1962
The Organization of American States suspends Cubas membership.
22 Jan 1964
Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
22 Jan 1964
Worlds largest cheese (15723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New Yorks World Fair
22 Jan 1968
Apollo Lunar Module is launched to Moon unmanned lunar module tests made
22 Jan 1968
NBA announces expansion franchise licences awarded to Milwaukee (Bucks) and Phoenix (Suns)
22 Jan 1969
Celebration opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
22 Jan 1969
Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
22 Jan 1970
1st commercial Boeing 747 flight Pan American World Airways flies from New York City to London in 6 hours
22 Jan 1970
Test debut of Barry Richards South Africa v Australia Cape Town
22 Jan 1972
Emergency with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
22 Jan 1972
An anti-internment march is held at Magilligan strand County Derry as the march nears the internment camp it is stopped by members of the Green Jackets and the Parachute Regiment of the British Army who used barbed wire to close off the beach
22 Jan 1973
Roe vs Wade US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions
22 Jan 1973
US North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord
22 Jan 1975
Landsat 2 an Earth Resources Technology Satellite launched
22 Jan 1976
Bank robbery in Beirut nets 20-50 million (record)
22 Jan 1980
West Indies beat England 2-0 to win crickets 1st World Series Cup
22 Jan 1981
40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
22 Jan 1981
O A Bum Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints
22 Jan 1983
2nd flight readiness firing of Challengers main engines 22 seconds
22 Jan 1983
Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96
22 Jan 1983
NFC Championship RFK Stadium Washington D.C. Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 31-17
22 Jan 1984
Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets womens basketball record with 70 pts
22 Jan 1984
Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
22 Jan 1984
Super Bowl XVIII Tampa Stadium LA Raiders beat Washington Redskins 38-9 MVP Marcus Allen Los Angeles RB
22 Jan 1985
-30F (-34C) Mountain Lake Bio Station Virginia (state record)
22 Jan 1985
Cold wave damages 90% of Floridas citrus crop
22 Jan 1985
Kelly Hu 16 of Hawaii crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
22 Jan 1986
Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras says North
22 Jan 1987
Blizzard in NJ as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game NJ wins 7-5
22 Jan 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
22 Jan 1988
1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Is
22 Jan 1988
1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje OFS v Transvaal
22 Jan 1990
Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
22 Jan 1990
Will Clark NLs MVP signs a 15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
22 Jan 1990
Robert Tappan Morris Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
22 Jan 1992
Sarah Duchess of York (aka Fergie) wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
22 Jan 1992
Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
22 Jan 1992
Rebel forces occupy Zaires national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the governments resignation.
22 Jan 1993
Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 638.77
22 Jan 1994
45th NHL All-Star Game Madison Square Garden NYC Eastern Conference beats West Western Conference 9-8 MVP Mike Richter NY Rangers G
22 Jan 1995
Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel 21-22 killed
22 Jan 1997
Space shuttle Atlantis successfully returns to Earth
22 Jan 1998
NHLs Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
22 Jan 1998
World League of American Football renamed as NFL Europe
22 Jan 1999
Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India
22 Jan 2001
The British government launches pro-vaccine campaign
22 Jan 2002
Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
22 Jan 2003
Last successful contact with NASA spacecraft Pioneer 10 one of the most distant man-made objects
22 Jan 2006
Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia becoming the countrys first indigenous president
22 Jan 2006
AFC Championship Mile High Stadium Denver Pittsburgh Steelers beat Denver Broncos 34-17
22 Jan 2006
NFC Championship Qwest Stadium Seattle Seattle Seahawks beat Carolina Panthers 34-14
22 Jan 2007
The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton accused of being Canadas worst serial killer opens in New Westminster British Columbia Canada.
22 Jan 2012
AFC Championship Gillette Stadium Foxborough New England Patriots beat Baltimore Ravens 23-20
22 Jan 2012
NFC Championship Candlestick Park SF New York Giants beat San Francisco 49ers 20-17 (OT)
22 Jan 2013
A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people
22 Jan 2013
The Bank of Japan doubles its inflation target to 2% and announces open-ended asset purchases for 2014 in the hope of ending deflation
22 Jan 2014
Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres
22 Jan 2016
Winter storm conditions strand 500 motorists for 24 hours on the New Jersey turnpike in Pennsylvania
22 Jan 2017
Chile declares a State of Emergency and requests international assistance as wildfires rage out of control
22 Jan 2017
NFC Championship Georgia Dome Atlanta Atlanta Falcons beat Green Bay Packers 44-21
22 Jan 2017
AFC Championship Gillette Stadium Foxborough New England Patriots beat Pittsburgh Steelers 36-17
22 Jan 2018
US government ends three-day shutdown after an agreement in Congress to extend funding
22 Jan 1984
Super Bowl XVIII Tampa Stadium Tampa FL LA Raiders beat Washington Redskins 38-9 MVP Marcus Allen Los Angeles RB
22 Jan 1994
45th NHL All-Star Game Madison Square Garden NYC East beats West 9-8 MVP Mike Richter NY Rangers G
22 Jan 2018
Netflix becomes the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world worth 100 billion
22 Jan 1371
King Robert II of Scotland (-90) is crowned becoming the first monarch of the House of Stewart
22 Jan 1934
Dmitri Shostakovichs opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District debuts in Leningrad
22 Jan 1991
Cholera epidemic begins in Peru with first known sufferer 300000 people infected over the next 12 months
22 Jan 2016
Winter storm conditions strand 500 motorists for 24 hours in Somerset and Bedford counties about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Turnpike
22 Jan 1883
England completes 1st innings victory in Tests vs. Australia at Melbourne Cricket Grounds
22 Jan 1931
Jazz trumpeter Clyde McCoy records Sugar Blues for Columbia Records sells over 14 million copies internationally
22 Jan 1948
All time great England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his first Test innings in 1st Test v West Indies in Bridgetown Barbados
22 Jan 1964
Kenneth Kaunda becomes the first President of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
22 Jan 2021
Lloyd Austin confirmed as defense secretary by the US Senate and the first black head of the Pentagon
22 Jan 1472
Great comet of 1471 (C1471 Y1) becomes the closest comet in modern times coming within 10 million kilometers of Earth [1]
22 Jan 1863
January Uprising begins in Poland prompted a rebellion against conscription into the Russian army
22 Jan 1863
The January Uprising an insurrection in Russias Kingdom of Poland aimed at restoration of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth begins carries on for 1-12 years but fails
22 Jan 2023
Australian surfer Laura Enever sets world record riding the largest-ever wave by a woman at 43.6ft (13.3m) on Oahus North Shore Hawaii [1]
22 Jan 2023
Chinas northernmost city Mohe records record low temperature of -53C (-63F) [1]
22 Jan 2023
Chinese Year of the Rabbit begins with China marking the largest celebration of the New Year since 2020 after Covid-zero restrictions lifted [1]
22 Jan 1506
The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican
22 Jan 1775
Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski confiscates goods being sold by Jews in settlements on the outskirts of Warsaw Poland
22 Jan 1814
First Knights Templar Grand Encampment in the US is held in New York City
22 Jan 1857
National Association of Base Ball Players is founded in New York
22 Jan 1889
Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington D.C.
22 Jan 1908
Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette violating the one-day-old Sullivan Ordinance banning women from smoking in public and is fined 5. Appearing before the judge she states Ive got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law and I dont want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.
22 Jan 1940
First radio broadcast of Road to Happiness on CBS
22 Jan 1947
First commercial TV station west of Mississippi KTLA (channel 5) in Los Angeles California begins broadcasting
22 Jan 1957
Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) is accused of 30 explosions and arrested
22 Jan 1960
Paul Pender defeats Sugar Ray Robinson for the middleweight boxing title
22 Jan 1964
Worlds largest cheese (15723 kg) is manufactured in Wisconsin for the New York Worlds Fair
22 Jan 1970
First commercial Boeing 747 flight Pan American World Airways flies from New York City to London in 6 hours
22 Jan 1973
US North Vietnam South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord
22 Jan 1975
Earth Resources Technology Satellite Landsat 2 is launched
22 Jan 1976
Bank robbery in Beirut nets a record 20 to 50 million
22 Jan 1981
O A Bum Phillips becomes head coach of NFL New Orleans Saints
22 Jan 1983
Second flight readiness firing of Challengers main engines lasts 22 seconds
22 Jan 1987
Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television leading to debates about boundaries in journalism
22 Jan 1990
Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm or Morris worm one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet
22 Jan 1993
Johan Koss skates a world record 5 km in 638.77
22 Jan 2024
Worlds first mass vaccine program against Malaria begins in Yaound Cameroon after successful trials of RTSS vaccine showed it saved one in three lives [1]
22 Jan 1588
Pope Sixtus V issues the apostolic constitution Immensa aeterni Dei to reform the Roman Curia
22 Jan 1673
Postal service between New York and Boston is inaugurated
22 Jan 1689
Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of the English House of Lords
22 Jan 1690
Iroquois tribes renew their allegiance to the British in opposition to the French
22 Jan 1760
Battle of Wandiwash India British troops defeat French forces
22 Jan 1857
National Association of Base Ball Players is founded in New York City
22 Jan 1881
Cleopatras Needle a 3500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park New York [1]
22 Jan 1903
The Hay-Herran Treaty concerning the US right to the Panama Canal is signed by the Colombian Charge daffaires in Washington D.C however it is never ratified
22 Jan 1964
Worlds largest cheese (15723 kg) is produced in Wisconsin for the New York Worlds Fair
22 Jan 1968
Rowan & Martins Laugh-In sketch comedy television program premieres on NBC
22 Jan 1968
NASAs Apollo 5 First unmanned test flight of Apollo Lunar Module is launched in earth orbit by Saturn 1B.
22 Jan 1968
NBA announces expansion franchise licenses awarded to Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns
22 Jan 1984
Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets womens college basketball record with 70 points in 116-21 victory over Pratt Institute at Purchase New York
22 Jan 1984
Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European Allround speedskating champion
22 Jan 1987
Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television sparking debate about the boundaries of journalism
22 Jan 1990
Will Clark the National League MVP signs a four-year 15 million contract with the San Francisco Giants
22 Jan 1998
MLB outfielder Rickey Henderson rejoins Oakland As for his 4th and final stint with the team
22 Jan 2018
New Orleans Pelicans DeMarcus Cousins has 44 points 24 rebounds & 10 assists in 132-128 double-OT win over Chicago Bulls 1st player since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1972) with 40 points 20 rebounds & 10 assists
22 Jan 2024
Joel Embiid sets NBA 76ers franchise record with 70 points in a single game during 133-123 win over visiting San Antonio Spurs in Philadelphia previous record of 68 set by Wilt Chamberlain in 1967