January 22......

January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 (344 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 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 arrived at the Vatican.

● 1510 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany

● 1517 - Turks conquer Cairo

● 1521 - Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.

● 1522 - German Reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter: 'Love cares for the problems of others as if they were one's own.'

● 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)

● 1666 - Shah Jahan, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, died at the age of 74. He was the Mogul emperor of India that built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal.

● 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

● 1760 - Battle at Wandewash India British troops beat French

● 1771 - Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.

● 1775 - Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland

● 1778 - U.S. Board of War induces Congress to approve an invasion of British- owned Canada. The invasion proved impractical, and its commander, the Marquis de Lafayette, was recalled six weeks later.

● 1793 - Birth of Benjamin Bannekar, African-American scientist/architect.

● 1798 - Coup of Midderigh

● 1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada

● 1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, New York City NY

● 1817 - English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia

● 1824 - Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast.

● 1825 - Birth of Ernest Coeurderoy, in Avallon (Yonne). Intern, writer, anarchistic socialist forced into exile because of his radical positions.

● 1831 - Charles Darwin takes his Bachelor of Arts exam

● 1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands

● 1840 - British colonists reach New Zealand.

● 1843 - Birth of Friedrich Wilhelm Blass, German biblical philologist. His 1896 "Grammar of New Testament Greek" became a foundational work in New Testament studies, and is still in print.

● 1849 - Birth of Terence Powderly, leader of the Knights of Labor.

● 1855 - At Dayton, in Oregon Territory, the few remaining Kalapuya bands in Willamette Valley cede the rest of their lands.

● 1855 - Birth of Carrie Ellis Breck, American Presbyterian poet. Several of her verses later became hymns, including "Help Somebody Today" and "Face to Face with Christ My Savior."

● 1858 - Birth of British Fabian socialist socialite Beatrice Webb.

● 1862 - Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20

● 1863 - Union General Burnside's "Mud March"

● 1863 - The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.

● 1871 - France - For the first time, anarchist Louise Michel, armed with a rifle, takes a shot against the Breton mobiles of Trochu in front of the Town hall.

● 1873 - Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die

● 1877 - Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices

● 1879 - British troops massacred at Isandhlwana, Zululand.

● 1879 - James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota

● 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.

● 1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park

● 1882 - The Fifth Street Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, became the first church in America to be illuminated by electric lighting.

● 1888 - Attempt to kill Louise Michel, in Paris, results in her being wounded. She testified for her attacker, arguing for his acquittal.

● 1889 - Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.

● 1890 - Fred M. Vinson , 13th Chief Justice of the United States , was born.

● 1890 - José Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City NY

● 1891 - Birth of Italian philosopher/communist Antonio Gramsci, Ales, Sardina.

● 1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.

● 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.

● 1903 - U.S. and Colombia sign the “Hay-Herran Treaty,” which allowed the U.S. to lease a swatch of land across the Panamanian isthmus for a canal. When the Colombian Senate balked at ratifying the treaty, the U.S. in November backed a secession of the province of Panama from Colombia; the new Panamanian government promptly leased the Canal Zone to the U.S. for 99 years.

● 1905 - France - Burial of Louise Michel. A procession of over 100,000 people accompany her coffin to the Levallois cemetery, where she is buried. The Lepine prefect, who tried to follow the procession, was driven off by the anarchists.

● 1905 - Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

● 1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Over 130 passengers die trying to get ashore or drowning on the ship. It's Canada's worst maritime tragedy up to that time.

● 1912 - U.S. troops begin occupation of Tientsin, China, "to protect American interests."

● 1917 - World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.

● 1918 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)

● 1924 - Pope Benedict XV died.

● 1924 - Baldwin government resigns in England

● 1924 - Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens

● 1924 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.

● 1925 - Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu

● 1926 - Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits

● 1930 - -35ºF (-37ºC), Mount Carroll IL (state record)

● 1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.

● 1931 - French government of Steeg falls

● 1931 - VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam

● 1932 - British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge

● 1932 - Five hundred New York City tenants battle police to prevent evictions.

● 1932 - Congress establishes Reconstruction Finance Corporation to lend money to failing banks and other hard-hit industries.

● 1936 - In Paris, Premier Pierre Laval resigned over diplomatic failure in the Ethiopian crisis.

● 1939 - Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco CA, is dedicated

● 1939 - Uranium atom split for the first time, Columbia University, New York City.

● 1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.

● 1941 - 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania

● 1941 - British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians

● 1942 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain

● 1943 - 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp CA (state record)

● 1943 - Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th

● 1943 - Temperature rises 49ºF (9ºC) in 2 minutes in Spearfish SD

● 1944 - Battle of Anzio (Italy); Allies stopped on the beach

● 1945 - Burma highway reopens

● 1945 - Heavy US air raid on Okinawa

● 1946 - Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president, Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.

● 1946 - Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.

● 1947 - KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.

● 1947 - Paul Ramadier becomes Prime Minister of France.

● 1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.

● 1952 - The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service.

● 1955 - Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms

● 1956 - 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles

● 1957 - The Israeli army withdrew from the Sinai. They had 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.

● 1959 - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects

● 1960 - French President De Gaulle escapes attempt by General Massu

● 1960 - Cuba - Labor Law no. 696 issued, establishing labor control offices. All workers -- employed and unemployed -- are required to register under threat of punishment.

● 1960 - Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die.

● 1961 - Two thousand travel through village occupied for 18 years by army as training ground. Imber, Wiltshire, Britain.

● 1962 - 'A6 murder' trial begins; James Hanratty, accused of murdering a physicist in a lay-by on the A6, enters a plea of "not guilty".

● 1962 - The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.

● 1963 - Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'In Jesus Christ, God and man...are already at peace not as enemies but as true companions. In Him salvation is already present and at work.'

● 1963 - Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.

● 1964 - Mumbai's lowest-ever temperature recorded (7.4°C).

● 1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin

● 1964 - Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)

● 1965 - US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite

● 1967 - Two hundred killed by Somoza's National Guard during protest against state violence, Managua, Nicaragua.

● 1967 - Simon & Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The recording is not released until July 16, 2002.

● 1968 - The TV sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.

● 1968 - Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made

● 1969 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit

● 1969 - "Third World Strike" begins on Univ. of California-Berkeley campus. Led to formation of an ethnic studies department.

● 1970 - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in 6½ hours

● 1972 - The United Kingdom, the Irish Republic, and Denmark joined the EEC.

● 1973 - Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at age 64.

● 1973 - The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade striking down state laws restricting abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.

● 1973 - A chartered 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.

● 1973 - World Council of Churches announces South African divestment.

● 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)

● 1979 - Public sector strike paralyses country; Tens of thousands of public sector workers take part in a day of action - the biggest mass stoppage since 1926 - in support of a claim for more pay.

● 1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour

● 1980 - Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki

● 1982 - 75% of North America is covered by snow

● 1983 - Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning five consecutive Wimbledon championships.

● 1983 - 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds

● 1984 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.

● 1985 - -30ºF (-34ºC), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)

● 1985 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop

● 1986 - Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North

● 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.

● 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.

● 1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

● 1990 - Gorbachev explains crackdown in Azerbaijan; President Mikhail Gorbachev announces Red Army troops have been sent into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

● 1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.

● 1991 - Fifteen villagers massacred by U.S.-supported government troops, El Zapote, El Salvador.

● 1991 - Fourteen ACT-UP AIDS activists are arrested disrupting CBS, NBC and PBS evening news broadcasts with "Fight AIDS, not Arabs" banners.

● 1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.

● 1992 - Space Shuttle program: STS-42 Mission - Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.

● 1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride

● 1994 - 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra

● 1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104.

● 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 - Over 2,000 demonstrators in Moscow protested Chechen war.

● 1996 - Fifteen are arrested at Rep. Norm Dicks' office in Tacoma for protesting clearcut logging under the salvage logging rider.

● 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.

● 1997 - Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful

● 1998 - Theodore Kaczynski plead guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.

● 1998 - STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit

● 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 - MMR triple vaccine declared safe; The government launches a £3m campaign to convince parents the controversial MMR triple vaccine is safe.

● 2001 - President George W. Bush signed a memorandum reinstating full abortion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid.

● 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 - AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft alleging 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. (Later Kmart will buyout Sears.)

● 2002 - Fifty-five people arrested on the steps of the United Nations in New York, protesting the U.S. war in Afghanistan and prospective expansion of the War on Terrorism.

● 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 - 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 from the Jewish Museum in New York City.

● 2003 - The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the previous had only been into power for 86 days.

● 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.

● 2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.

● 2003 - World premiere of Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central.

● 2004 - Bill Janklow, a South Dakota congressman who had resigned after being convicted of manslaugther for a collision that killed a motorcyclist, was sentenced to 100 days in jail.

● 2006 - Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected president of Portugal.

● 2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

BIRTHS

● 1263 - Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)

● 1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)

● 1553 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)

● 1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)

● 1570 - Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)

● 1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)

● 1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)

● 1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)

● 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)

● 1781 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1849)

● 1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)

● 1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Quebec printer and publisher (d. 1852)

● 1800 - Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader (d. 1831)

● 1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)

● 1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)

● 1850 - Robert Brookings, American businessman/philanthropist (d. 1932)

● 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)

● 1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)

● 1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)

● 1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)

● 1889 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)

● 1890 - Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)

● 1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)

● 1892 - Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)

● 1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)

● 1897 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)

● 1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)

● 1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)

● 1904 (N.S.) - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)

● 1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)

● 1906 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)

● 1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)

● 1907 - William Ralph Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)

● 1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)

● 1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)

● 1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)

● 1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)

● 1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)

● 1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)

● 1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)

● 1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)

● 1915 - Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)

● 1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer

● 1916 - Bill Durnan, National Hockey League goaltender (d. 1972)

● 1918 - Elmer Lach, National Hockey League player

● 1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey, English footballer manager (d. 1999)

● 1922 - Howard Moss, American poet/editor of The New Yorker (d. 1987)

● 1924 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)

● 1927 - Lou Creekmur, American football player

● 1928 - Birch Bayh, Former U.S. senator, D-Ind.

● 1928 - George A. Borgman, American jazz historian and journalist

● 1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)

● 1932 - Piper Laurie, American actress

● 1932 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist

● 1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)

● 1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor

● 1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author

● 1937 - Edén Pastora Gómez, Nicaraguan rebel leader

● 1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)

● 1939 - Jean-Claude Tremblay, National Hockey League defenceman (d. 1994)

● 1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)

● 1940 - John Hurt, English actor

● 1940 - George Seifert, American football coach

● 1945 - Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league player & coach

● 1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player

● 1946 - Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist

● 1947 - Afeni Shakur, 2Pac's mother

● 1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor

● 1949 - Steve Perry, American musician

● 1949 - Mike Caldwell, baseball player

● 1952 - Teddy Gentry, Country singer-musician (Alabama)

● 1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director

● 1954 - Chris Lemmon, American actor

● 1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician

● 1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor

● 1957 - Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player and Hall of Fame member

● 1959 - Linda Blair, American actress (''The Excorcist'')

● 1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (INXS) (d. 1997)

● 1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor

● 1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist

● 1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor

● 1965 - Regina Nicks, Country singer (Regina Regina)

● 1965 - Diane Lane, American actress

● 1965 - Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter

● 1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress

● 1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)

● 1966 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast

● 1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler

● 1968 - Frank Lebœuf, French footballer

● 1968 - Hiroshi Morie, Japanese musician

● 1969 - John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist

● 1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress

● 1969 - Marc Gay, R&B singer (Shai)

● 1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)

● 1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist

● 1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer

● 1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor

● 1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)

● 1972 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayen racing driver (d. 1999)

● 1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer

● 1975 - Balthazar Getty, American actor

● 1975 - David Vyborny, Czech ice hockey player

● 1976 - Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player

● 1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer

● 1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand, Maori and Waikato rugby player

● 1978 - Chone Figgins, baseball player

● 1980 - Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Actor (''Malcolm in the Middle'')

● 1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)

● 1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer (Real Madrid)

● 1981 - Chantelle Anderson, American basketball player

● 1981 - Kelton Kessee, R&B singer (IMX)

● 1981 - Ben Moody, Rock musician (Evanescence)

● 1981 - Willa Ford, American singer

● 1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress (''7th Heaven'')

● 1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer

● 1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer

● 1982 - Josh Shanks, film producer/entreprenuer

● 1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player

● 1983 - Robert Steinhäuser, perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)

● 1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel

● 1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player

● 1984 - Ben Eager,Canadian hockey player

● 1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer

● 1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model

● 1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier

● 1989 - Jared Smith, American rapper and actor

DEATHS

● 1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader

● 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)

● 1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)

● 1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)

● 1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)

● 1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)

● 1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)

● 1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)

● 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)

● 1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)

● 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)

● 1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)

● 1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)

● 1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)

● 1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)

● 1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)

● 1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)

● 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)

● 1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)

● 1966 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)

● 1967 - Robert Henriques, British writer (b. 1905)

● 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)

● 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)

● 1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)

● 1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)

● 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)

● 1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)

● 1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)

● 1987 - R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)

● 1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)

● 1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)

● 1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)

● 1994 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1922)

● 1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)

● 1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (b. 1890)

● 1995 - Jerry Blackwell, wrestler (b. 1949)

● 1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary burnt alive in India (age 58)

● 2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)

● 2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)

● 2001 - Tommie Agee, baseball player (b. 1942)

● 2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)

● 2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)

● 2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)

● 2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)

● 2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1943)

● 2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)

● 2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)

● 2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (Nixon's secretary; Nixon blamed her for infamous 18 minute gap.) (b. 1917)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● January 22
● St. Anastasius XIV
● St. Blaesilla
● St. Brithwald
● St. Dominic of Sora
● St. Francis Gil de Frederich
● St. Matthew Alonso Leziniana
● St. Paschasius
● St. Vincent the Deacon
● St. Vincent of Digne
● Sts. Vincent, Orontius, & Victor
● St. Vincent Pallotti
● Bl. William Patenson

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 10 (Civil Date: January 22)
● Afterfeast of the Theophany.
● St. Gregory of Nyssa
● St. Dometian, bishop of Melitene.
● St. Marcian, presbyter of Constantinople.
● St. Paul, abbot of Obnora (Vologda), and his disciple St. Macarius, abbot of Pisma Monastery.
● Blessed Theosebia the deaconess, sister of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa.
● St. Ammon, monk.
● St. Macarius of the Kiev Caves.
● Repose of Schemahieromonk Antipas of Valaam (1882).

● Anglican:
● St. Vincent, martyr/patron of wine growers

● Ukraine : Ukrainian Day (1918)

● New Zealand - Wellington Anniversary.

IN FICTION

● 2179 - Star Trek: Birth of Hikaru Walter Sulu, San Francisco California.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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