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Events on the 22nd of January in history

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22 Jan 0613 Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
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22 Jan 0871 Battle at Basing Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex
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22 Jan 1371 King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
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22 Jan 1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
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22 Jan 1510 Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
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22 Jan 1517 The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
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22 Jan 1517 Turks conquer Cairo
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22 Jan 1521 Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms
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22 Jan 1528 England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
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22 Jan 1555 The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now present-day Burma.
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22 Jan 1575 English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly
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22 Jan 1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian Calendar
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22 Jan 1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
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22 Jan 1588 Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
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22 Jan 1673 Postal service between New York & Boston inaugurated
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22 Jan 1689 The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones when he fled to France in 1688.
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22 Jan 1689 Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords
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22 Jan 1689 Prince Willem III calls English parliament together
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22 Jan 1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
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22 Jan 1758 Russian troops occupy K
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22 Jan 1760 Battle at Wandewash India British troops beat French
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22 Jan 1771 Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain
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22 Jan 1775 Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
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22 Jan 1798 Coup of Midderigh
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22 Jan 1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
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22 Jan 1814 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, New York City NY
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22 Jan 1816 Lord Byron completes "Parisina" and"Siege of Corinth"
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22 Jan 1816 Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "The Siege of Corinth"
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22 Jan 1817 English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
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22 Jan 1824 The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
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22 Jan 1831 Charles Darwin takes his Bachelor of Arts exam
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22 Jan 1837 Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
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22 Jan 1849 Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
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22 Jan 1850 Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in California
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22 Jan 1857 National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York
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22 Jan 1859 Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
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22 Jan 1862 Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
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22 Jan 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 by Russia.
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22 Jan 1863 Union General Burnside's "Mud March"
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22 Jan 1873 Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
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22 Jan 1877 Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
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22 Jan 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift: One hundred thirty-nine British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an onslaught by three to four thousand Zulu warriors.
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22 Jan 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana: Zulu troops decisively defeat British troops.
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22 Jan 1879 James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
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22 Jan 1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
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22 Jan 1881 Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
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22 Jan 1883 England complete 1st innings victory in Tests vs Australia MCG
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22 Jan 1889 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
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22 Jan 1890 Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City
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22 Jan 1890 The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
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22 Jan 1890 Jos
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22 Jan 1895 National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati OH
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22 Jan 1899 Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
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22 Jan 1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
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22 Jan 1901 After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series
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22 Jan 1905 Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
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22 Jan 1905 "Bloody Sunday"; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
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22 Jan 1906 SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
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22 Jan 1909 Vassily Kandinsky forms K
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22 Jan 1910 Opera "Germania, " premieres in New York City
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22 Jan 1910 The opera "Germania" is 1st performed in New York City NY
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22 Jan 1914 Paul Claudel's "L'
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22 Jan 1915 Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
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22 Jan 1917 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
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22 Jan 1918 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
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22 Jan 1919 Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
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22 Jan 1924 Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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22 Jan 1924 KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
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22 Jan 1924 Baldwin government resigns in England
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22 Jan 1924 Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
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22 Jan 1925 Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
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22 Jan 1926 Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits
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22 Jan 1927 Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
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22 Jan 1930 -35
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22 Jan 1931 French government of Steeg falls
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22 Jan 1931 VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
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22 Jan 1932 British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
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22 Jan 1934 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady MacBeth" premieres in Leningrad
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22 Jan 1936 French Laval government falls
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22 Jan 1938 "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners NH, performed publicly for 1st time (New Jersey)
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22 Jan 1939 Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco CA, is dedicated
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22 Jan 1939 Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
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22 Jan 1940 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
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22 Jan 1941 World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
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22 Jan 1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
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22 Jan 1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
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22 Jan 1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
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22 Jan 1942 Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8 44 06)
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22 Jan 1943 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record)
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22 Jan 1943 Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
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22 Jan 1943 Temperature rises 49
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22 Jan 1944 During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
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22 Jan 1944 World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
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22 Jan 1944 Battle of Anzio (Italy); Allies stopped on the beach
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22 Jan 1945 Burma highway reopens
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22 Jan 1945 Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
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22 Jan 1946 Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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22 Jan 1946 In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh is the prime minister.
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22 Jan 1946 US President sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
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22 Jan 1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood, California
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22 Jan 1947 KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
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22 Jan 1947 KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
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22 Jan 1947 KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles CA (IND) begins broadcasting (1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi)
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22 Jan 1948 Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs West Indies Barbados
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22 Jan 1949 "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 performances
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22 Jan 1949 Chinatown telephone exchange closed
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22 Jan 1949 "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY for 121 performances
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22 Jan 1950 Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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22 Jan 1951 Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
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22 Jan 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
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22 Jan 1953 Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premieres in New York City NY
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22 Jan 1955 Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
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22 Jan 1956 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
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22 Jan 1956 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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22 Jan 1956 Canadian Football Council forms
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22 Jan 1957 The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
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22 Jan 1957 Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
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22 Jan 1957 Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
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22 Jan 1958 KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
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22 Jan 1959 Knox Mine disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
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22 Jan 1959 USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
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22 Jan 1960 10th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
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22 Jan 1960 Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
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22 Jan 1960 French President De Gaulle escapes attempt by General Massu
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22 Jan 1960 Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
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22 Jan 1962 The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.
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22 Jan 1963 The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
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22 Jan 1963 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament
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22 Jan 1964 World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
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22 Jan 1964 Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
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22 Jan 1965 US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
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22 Jan 1967 NFL Pro Bowl East beats West 20-10
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22 Jan 1968 Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
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22 Jan 1968 Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
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22 Jan 1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
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22 Jan 1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
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22 Jan 1968 NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
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22 Jan 1969 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
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22 Jan 1969 A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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22 Jan 1969 Billy Preston becomes the 5th Beatle
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22 Jan 1969 Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
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22 Jan 1969 "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City NY for 110 performances
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22 Jan 1969 Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
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22 Jan 1970 The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
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22 Jan 1970 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in 6
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22 Jan 1970 Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs Australia, Cape Town
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22 Jan 1971 John andYoko record "Power to the People"
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22 Jan 1971 The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
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22 Jan 1971 John & Yoko record "Power to the People"
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22 Jan 1972 "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
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22 Jan 1972 22nd NBA All-Star Game West beats East 112-110 at Los Angeles
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22 Jan 1973 US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord
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22 Jan 1973 A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
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22 Jan 1973 The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
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22 Jan 1973 The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
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22 Jan 1973 George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Jan 1973 Roe vs Wade US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
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22 Jan 1975 Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
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22 Jan 1976 Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)
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22 Jan 1980 PGA begins a senior golf tour
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22 Jan 1980 Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
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22 Jan 1980 West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup
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22 Jan 1981 O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints
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22 Jan 1981 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
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22 Jan 1982 75% of North America is covered by snow
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22 Jan 1983 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
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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
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22 Jan 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.
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22 Jan 1984 Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 points
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22 Jan 1984 Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
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22 Jan 1984 Super Bowl XVIII Los Angeles Raiders beat Washington Redskins, 38-9 in Tampa; Super Bowl MVP Marcus Allen, Los Angeles Raiders, Running Back
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22 Jan 1985 -30
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22 Jan 1985 Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
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22 Jan 1985 Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides
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22 Jan 1985 Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
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22 Jan 1986 Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
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22 Jan 1987 Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
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22 Jan 1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
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22 Jan 1987 Blizzard in New Jersey, as 334 attend the Devils-Flame NHL game, New Jersey wins 7-5
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22 Jan 1988 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago vs Leeward Island
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22 Jan 1988 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs Transvaal
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22 Jan 1988 Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Jan 1989 Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Jerry Rice, San Francisco, Wide Receiver
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22 Jan 1989 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
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22 Jan 1990 Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
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22 Jan 1990 Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants
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22 Jan 1990 17th American Music Award Milli Vanilli
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22 Jan 1990 Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
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22 Jan 1991 Gulf War: Three Scuds and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
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22 Jan 1992 Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
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22 Jan 1992 Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
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22 Jan 1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
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22 Jan 1992 Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
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22 Jan 1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6 38.77
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22 Jan 1994 East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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22 Jan 1994 45th NHL All-Star Game East beat West 9-8 at New York Rangers
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22 Jan 1994 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
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22 Jan 1994 51st Golden Globes Schlinder's List, Steven Spielberg
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22 Jan 1995 Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre: In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
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22 Jan 1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
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22 Jan 1995 Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament
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22 Jan 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
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22 Jan 1998 Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland Athletics for 4th time
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22 Jan 1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
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22 Jan 1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit
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22 Jan 1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East
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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.
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22 Jan 2002 Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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22 Jan 2006 Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 81 points in an NBA game versus the Toronto Raptors, the second highest total in NBA history.
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22 Jan 2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
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22 Jan 2007 At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
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22 Jan 2010 Conan O'Brien performs his last Tonight Show on NBC as a part of the 2010 Tonight Show conflict.
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22 Jan 2015 An explosion near a civilian trolleybus in the city of Donetsk kills at least thirteen people.
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