January, 22nd in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Wednesday 22, 2003:
2003 - Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.

Tuesday 22, 2002:
Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Monday 22, 2001:
Four of the Texas 7 are caught at a convenience store in Woodland Park, Colorado and a fifth killed himself inside a motor home.

Thursday 22, 1998:
Suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

Wednesday 22, 1997:
Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.

Sunday 22, 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.

Wednesday 22, 1992:
STS-42: Dr. Roberta Bondar becomes the first Canadian woman in space.

Monday 22, 1990:
Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.

Thursday 22, 1987:
Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on national television.

Sunday 22, 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 the famous television commercial "1984".

Saturday 22, 1983:
Björn Borg retires from tennis after winning five consecutive Wimbledon championships.

Tuesday 22, 1980:
Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.

Monday 22, 1973:
George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.

Monday 22, 1968:
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, debuts on NBC.

Sunday 22, 1967:
Simon & Garfunkel perform live at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center, New York City. The recording is not released until 16 July 2002.

Wednesday 22, 1964:
Mumbai's lowest ever temperature recorded (7.4°C).

Tuesday 22, 1963:
Elysée treaty between France and Germany.

Monday 22, 1962:
The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.

Tuesday 22, 1957:
The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

Thursday 22, 1953:
The Crucible, a drama by Arthur Miller, opens on Broadway.

Tuesday 22, 1952:
The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service.

Wednesday 22, 1947:
Paul Ramadier becomes Prime Minister of France.

Saturday 22, 1944:
World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).

Wednesday 22, 1941:
World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.

Thursday 22, 1931:
Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.

Tuesday 22, 1924:
Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.

Monday 22, 1917:
World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.

Sunday 22, 1905:
'Bloody Sunday' in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

Tuesday 22, 1901:
Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.

Sunday 22, 1899:
Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.

Tuesday 22, 1889:
Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.

Wednesday 22, 1879:
Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.

Thursday 22, 1863:
The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.

Wednesday 22, 1840:
British colonists reach New Zealand.

Thursday 22, 1824:
Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast.

Tuesday 22, 1771:
Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England.

Saturday 22, 1521:
Diet of Worms is opened by Emperor Charles V.

Tuesday 22, 565:
Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/22-january/on-this-day.html


People born on January 22

1983:
Shaun Cody, American football player (b: January 22, 1983) (Biography of Shaun Cody)

1981:
Chantelle Anderson, American basketball player (b: January 22, 1981) (Biography of Chantelle Anderson)
Beverley Mitchell, American actress (b: January 22, 1981) (Biography of Beverley Mitchell)
Willa Ford, American singer (b: January 22, 1981) (Biography of Willa Ford)

1980:
Christopher Masterson, American actor (b: January 22, 1980) (Biography of Christopher Masterson)
Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence) (b: January 22, 1980) (Biography of Ben Moody)

1978:
Chone Figgins, baseball player (b: January 22, 1978) (Biography of Chone Figgins)

1977:
Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer (b: January 22, 1977) (Biography of Hidetoshi Nakata)

1975:
Balthazar Getty, American actor (b: January 22, 1975) (Biography of Balthazar Getty)

1972:
Gabriel Macht, American actor (b: January 22, 1972) (Biography of Gabriel Macht)

1968:
Frank Leb?uf, French footballer (b: January 22, 1968) (Biography of Frank Leboeuf)

1967:
Olivia d'Abo, English actress (b: January 22, 1967) (Biography of Olivia d'Abo)

1965:
DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor (b: January 22, 1965) (Biography of DJ Jazzy Jeff)
Diane Lane, American actress (b: January 22, 1965) (Biography of Diane Lane)
Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter (b: January 22, 1965) (Biography of Andrew Roachford)

1960:
Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (INXS) (b: January 22, 1960 ; d: November 22, 1997) (Biography of Michael Hutchence)

1959:
Linda Blair, American actress (b: January 22, 1959) (Biography of Linda Blair)

1957:
Mike Bossy, Canadian hockey player (b: January 22, 1957) (Biography of Mike Bossy)

1956:
John Wesley Shipp, American actor (b: January 22, 1956) (Biography of John Wesley Shipp)

1954:
Peter Pilz, Austrian politician (b: January 22, 1954) (Biography of Peter Pilz)
Chris Lemmon, American actor (b: January 22, 1954) (Biography of Chris Lemmon)

1953:
Jim Jarmusch, American director (b: January 22, 1953) (Biography of Jim Jarmusch)

1949:
Steve Perry, Amnerican musician (b: January 22, 1949) (Biography of Steve Perry (musician))

1946:
Serge Savard, Canadian hockey player (b: January 22, 1946) (Biography of Serge Savard)

1940:
Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (b: January 22, 1940 ; d: June 10, 1982) (Biography of Addie "Micki" Harris)
John Hurt, English actor (b: January 22, 1940) (Biography of John Hurt)
George Seifert, American football coach (b: January 22, 1940) (Biography of George Seifert)

1939:
Jeff Smith, American chef (b: January 22, 1939) (Biography of Jeff Smith (TV personality))

1937:
Edén Pastora Gómez, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b: January 22, 1937) (Biography of Edén Pastora Gómez)

1936:
Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: January 22, 1936) (Biography of Alan J. Heeger)
Joseph Wambaugh, American author (b: January 22, 1936) (Biography of Joseph Wambaugh)

1935:
Seymour Cassel, American actor (b: January 22, 1935) (Biography of Seymour Cassel)

1934:
Bill Bixby, American actor (b: January 22, 1934 ; d: November 21, 1993) (Biography of Bill Bixby)

1932:
Piper Laurie, American actress (b: January 22, 1932) (Biography of Piper Laurie)

1931:
Sam Cooke, American singer (b: January 22, 1931 ; d: December 11, 1964) (Biography of Sam Cooke)

1927:
Lou Creekmur, American football player (b: January 22, 1927) (Biography of Lou Creekmur)

1924:
J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b: January 22, 1924 ; d: February 4, 2001) (Biography of J. J. Johnson)

1916:
Henri Dutilleux, French composer (b: January 22, 1916) (Biography of Henri Dutilleux)

1915:
Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (b: January 22, 1915) (Biography of Heinrich Albertz)

1913:
Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (b: January 22, 1913 ; d: December 7, 2003) (Biography of Carl F. H. Henry)

1911:
Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (b: January 22, 1911 ; d: July 29, 1990) (Biography of Bruno Kreisky)

1909:
U Thant, Burmese United Nations Secretary General (b: January 22, 1909 ; d: November 25, 1974) (Biography of U Thant)
Ann Sothern, American actress (b: January 22, 1909 ; d: March 15, 2001) (Biography of Ann Sothern)

1908:
Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: January 22, 1908 ; d: April 1, 1968) (Biography of Lev Davidovich Landau)

1907:
Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b: January 22, 1907 ; d: May 19, 2004) (Biography of Mary Dresselhuys)
Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b: January 22, 1907) (Biography of Douglas Corrigan)

1906:
Robert E. Howard, American author (b: January 22, 1906 ; d: June 11, 1936) (Biography of Robert E. Howard)

1904:
George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (b: January 22, 1904 ; d: April 30, 1983) (Biography of George Balanchine)
Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (b: January 22, 1904 ; d: October 26, 1941) (Biography of Arkady Gaidar)

1903:
Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (b: January 22, 1903 ; d: March 1, 1966) (Biography of Fritz Houtermans)

1902:
Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b: January 22, 1902 ; d: June 27, 1970) (Biography of Daniel Kinsey)

1893:
Conrad Veidt, German actor (b: January 22, 1893) (Biography of Conrad Veidt)

1892:
Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (b: January 22, 1892) (Biography of Marcel Dassault)

1875:
D. W. Griffith, American film director (b: January 22, 1875 ; d: July 23, 1948) (Biography of D. W. Griffith)

1849:
August Strindberg, Swedish writer (b: January 22, 1849 ; d: May 14, 1912) (Biography of August Strindberg)

1788:
George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (b: January 22, 1788) (Biography of Lord Byron)

1775:
Andre Marie Ampere, French physicist (b: January 22, 1775) (Biography of Andre Marie Ampere)

1729:
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b: January 22, 1729 ; d: February 15, 1781) (Biography of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)

1690:
Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b: January 22, 1690 ; d: September 14, 1743) (Biography of Nicolas Lancret)

1654:
Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (b: January 22, 1654 ; d: October 9, 1729) (Biography of Richard Blackmore)

1592:
Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b: January 22, 1592 ; d: October 24, 1655) (Biography of Pierre Gassendi)

1570:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (b: January 22, 1570 ; d: May 6, 1631) (Biography of Robert Bruce Cotton)

1561:
Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (b: January 22, 1561 ; d: April 9, 1626) (Biography of Francis Bacon)

1553:
Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b: January 22, 1553 ; d: April 27, 1625) (Biography of Mori Terumoto)

1440:
Ivan III of Russia (b: January 22, 1440 ; d: October 27, 1505) (Biography of Ivan III of Russia)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/22-january/births.html

[Spiritus Temporis]

They left us on January 22

2005:
César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b: January 26, 1943 ; d: January 22, 2005) (Biography of César Gutiérrez)
Carlo Orelli (d: January 22, 2005) (Biography of Carlo Orelli)
Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b: August 29, 1924 ; d: January 22, 2005) (Biography of Consuelo Velázquez)
Rose Mary Woods (d: January 22, 2005) (Biography of Rose Mary Woods)

2004:
Billy May (d: January 22, 2004) (Biography of Billy May)
Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b: April 12, 1923 ; d: January 22, 2004) (Biography of Ann Miller)

2003:
Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (b: October 29, 1921 ; d: January 22, 2003) (Biography of Bill Mauldin)

2001:
Tommie Agee (d: January 22, 2001) (Biography of Tommie Agee)

2000:
Craig Claiborne (d: January 22, 2000) (Biography of Craig Claiborne)

1994:
Telly Savalas, American actor (b: January 21, 1924 ; d: January 22, 1994) (Biography of Telly Savalas)

1993:
Abe Kobo (d: January 22, 1993) (Biography of Abe Kobo)

1988:
Parker Fennelly (d: January 22, 1988) (Biography of Parker Fennelly)

1987:
Budd Dywer (d: January 22, 1987) (Biography of Budd Dywer)

1978:
Oliver Leese, British general (b: October 27, 1894 ; d: January 22, 1978) (Biography of Oliver Leese)
Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b: November 24, 1894 ; d: January 22, 1978) (Biography of Herbert Sutcliffe)

1975:
Andrew George Burry (d: January 22, 1975) (Biography of Andrew George Burry)

1973:
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b: August 27, 1908 ; d: January 22, 1973) (Biography of Lyndon B. Johnson)

1968:
Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (b: August 24, 1890 ; d: January 22, 1968) (Biography of Duke Kahanamoku)

1959:
Mike Hawthorn (d: January 22, 1959) (Biography of Mike Hawthorn)

1950:
Alan Hale, Sr. (d: January 22, 1950) (Biography of Alan Hale, Sr.)

1945:
Else Lasker-Schuler (d: January 22, 1945) (Biography of Else Lasker-Schuler)

1922:
Pope Benedict XV (b: November 21, 1854 ; d: January 22, 1922) (Biography of Pope Benedict XV)

1921:
Captain George Streeter (d: January 22, 1921) (Biography of Captain George Streeter)

1901:
Victoria I of the United Kingdom (d: January 22, 1901) (Biography of Victoria I of the United Kingdom)

1892:
Joseph Philo Bradley, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b: March 14, 1813 ; d: January 22, 1892) (Biography of Joseph Philo Bradley)

1840:
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b: May 11, 1752 ; d: January 22, 1840) (Biography of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach)

1779:
Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b: July 27, 1733 ; d: January 22, 1779) (Biography of Jeremiah Dixon)
Claudius Smith (d: January 22, 1779) (Biography of Claudius Smith)

1763:
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b: April 22, 1690 ; d: January 22, 1763) (Biography of John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville)

1750:
Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b: February 21, 1675 ; d: January 22, 1750) (Biography of Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl)

1666:
Shah Jahan (d: January 22, 1666) (Biography of Shah Jahan)

1536:
Bernhard Knipperdolling (d: January 22, 1536) (Biography of Bernhard Knipperdolling)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/22-january/deaths.html