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Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings
First Russian Revolution begins
Sakharov arrested in Moscow
Queen Victoria dies
British colonists reach New Zealand
Robert Bruce Cotton English antiquary politician
Pierre Gassendi Champtercier Provence scientistphilosopher
Richard Blackmore English physician and writer (d. 1729)
Carl Hockh German composer and violinist (d. 1773)
Joseph Riepel Austrian-born German composer born in Rainbach im Mhlkreis (d. 1782)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing German criticdramatist
Lewis Edson early American composer born in Woodstock New York (d. 1820)
Maria Leopoldina of Austria Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
Ludger Duvernay Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
Richard Upjohn American gothic architect (Trinity Chapel NY)
Johan Hendrik Koelman portrait painter (Jahresringe)
[Merriwether] Jeff Thompson Partisan (Confederate Army) (d. 1876)
Ernest Roland Wilberforce English bishop (d. 1907)
Samuel Muller Fzn Dutch historianarchivist (Middle Ages)
August Strindberg Swedish dramatistnovelist (Apologia)
Albert Neisser [Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser] Schweidnitz Prussia German physician who discovered the bacterias that cause gonorrhea and leprosy
Beatrice Potter Webb English sociologist economist ( founded London School of Economics) and writer (My Apprenticeship) born in Standish (d. 1943)
Frederick Lugard British captainbaron (Congo)
Leon Jessel German composer (The Parade of the Tin Soldiers) born in Stettin (d. 1942)
Wincenty Witoz Galicia PM of Poland (1920-21 1923 1926)
Edward Harkness American philanthropist (d. 1940)
Bonifacius C de Jonge governor (Dutch East Indies)
Thomas W Ross American actor (Without Limit Kings Row 17 Mortal Storm) born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1959)
Hjalmar Schacht president of German Reichsbankminister of Economics
Constance Collier British actress and writer (Rope Stage Door Whirlpool) born in Windsor England (d. 1955)
Francis Picabia French avante-garde artist writer and typographist (Amorous Parade) born in Paris France (d. 1953)
Theodore Kosloff Russian-born actor ballet dancer and choreographer born in Moscow Russian Empire (d. 1956)
Henri Plissier French cyclist (1923 Tour de France) born in Paris France (d. 1935)
Fred M. Vinson American Democratic politician US Treasury Secretary (1945-46) and the 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53) born in Louisa Kentucky (d. 1953)
Vinko Zganec Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
Franz Alexander HungarianUS psycho analytical
Moise Kisling PolishFrench painter (La Souris Boiteuse)
Marcel Dassault [Bloch] French airplane builder
Jan 22 1371 King Robert II of Scotland is crowned becoming the first monarch of the House of Stewart (-90)
Jan 22 1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican
Jan 22 1517 Ottoman forces take Cairo capital of the Mamluk Sultanate