Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 22

1371: King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned
1510: Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1517: Turks conquer Cairo
1528: England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V
1575: English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd
1575: music press monopoly
1584: Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
1588: Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia)
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 K”nigsberg, East Prussia [OS=Jan 11]
1760: Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French
1771: Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1775: Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland
1798: Coup of Midderigh
1813: Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1814: 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC
1816: Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"
1817: English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia
1831: Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam
1837: Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1850: Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif
1857: National Association of Baseball Players founded, NY
1859: Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1862: Confederate govt raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20
1863: Union Gen Burnside's "Mud March"
1873: Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die
1879: James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously
1879: serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota
1879: Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa
1881: Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park
1883: England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG
1890: Jos‚ Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC
1895: National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati
1901: After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps
1901: series & begins King Edward VII series
1905: Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1909: Vassily Kandinsky forms Knstlerverein in Munich
1910: Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
1914: Paul Claudel's "L'‚change," premieres in Paris
1918: Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1924: Baldwin govt resigns in England
1924: Dutch Blast Furnace & Steel Factory opens
1924: KGO-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
1925: Albania Republic proclaimed under Pres Achmed Zogu
1926: Belgian chief of staff Gen Maglinse quits
1930: -35øF (-37øC), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)
1931: French govt of Steeg falls
1931: VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
1932: British Anglicans & Old-Catholic church merge
1934: Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad
1936: French Laval govt falls
1938: "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in
1938: Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)
1939: Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated
1939: Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University
1940: 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS
1941: 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941: British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians
1942: Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942: Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)
1943: 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, Calif (state record)
1943: Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]-
1943: Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th
1943: Temperature rises 49øF (9øC) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD
1944: During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy
1945: Burma highway reopens
1945: Heavy US air raid on Okinawa
1946: US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1947: 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA
1947: KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948: Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings v WI Barbados
1949: "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 121 perfs
1949: Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1951: Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom
1951: Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1953: Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC
1955: Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms
1956: 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles
1956: Canadian Football Council forms
1957: Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula
1957: Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested
1958: KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast
1959: USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects
1960: 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia
1960: Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die
1960: French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu
1960: Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title
1964: Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia)
1964: World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1965: US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
1967: NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10
1968: "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC
1968: Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made
1968: NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix
1969: "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances
1969: Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle
1969: Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit
1969: Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1970: 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, NY to London in 6« hours
1970: Test debut of Barry Richards, S Africa v Australia, Cape Town
1971: John & Yoko record "Power to the People"
1972: "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1972: 22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA
1973: George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1973: Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
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)
1980: Dissidents Andrei Sacharov & Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki
1980: West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup
1981: 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th
1981: O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints
1982: 75% of North America is covered by snow
1983: 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds
1983: Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime
1983: Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96
1984: Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts
1984: Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates
1984: Superbowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB
1984: Superbowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa
1985: -30øF (-34øC), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record)
1985: Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop
1985: Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA
1985: Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides
1986: Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North
1988: Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1989: Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR
1989: Superbowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami
1989: USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990: 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
1990: Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
1992: Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride
1992: Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space
1994: 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra
1994: 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg
1995: Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed
1997: Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1998: NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild
1998: Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time
1998: STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit

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