History Events on January 22

World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.

#World_War_I

World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.

#Allies_of_World_War_II

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.

#Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.

#House_of_Braganza

World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.

#World_War_II

World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly-fought Battle of Buna-Gona.

#Battle_of_Buna-Gona

Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

#Edward_VII

Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

#Kmart

The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15 km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.

#Battle_of_Rorke's_Drift

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.

#Boeing_747

Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

#Bloody_Sunday_(1905)

Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.

#Israel

Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.

#Constantine_III_(Byzantine_emperor)

Space Shuttle program: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.

#Space_Shuttle_program

The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.

#Apollo_17

Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.

#Central_Intelligence_Agency

Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.

#Columbia_Records

SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.

#SS_Valencia

Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.

#Apollo_5

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

#Evo_Morales

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.

#January_Uprising

Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.

#Act_Zluky

The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.

#Swiss_Guard

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

#KTLA

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 of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.

#Convention_Parliament_(1689)

Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000-15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.

#Philippines

The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.

#Ottoman_Empire

Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.

#Second_Anglo-Sikh_War

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

#Zaire

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israelis.

#Israeli-Palestinian_conflict

In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.

#Iran

Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

#Ramsay_MacDonald

In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante.

#Kingston,_Jamaica

Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.

#Guadalajara

A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.

#Boeing_707

The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.

#Battle_of_Isandlwana

The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.

#Élysée_Treaty

An explosion near a civilian trolley-bus in Donetsk kills at least thirteen people.

At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.

Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.

The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.

Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.

The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

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.

The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.

The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.

The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.

Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.