What happened on January 22? There are more than 341 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About January 22
January 22 is the 22nd day of the year 2024. There are 344 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 4th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania 18072 sunrise occured at 07:18 AM and sunset occured at 05:06 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aquarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Garnet while the mystical birthstone is Emerald.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 19 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (February 10, 2024).
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Historical Events For January 22
- 565Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
- 1506The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
- 1521Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, opens the Diet of Worms.
- 1689The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II, the last Roman Catholic king of England, had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688.
- 1771Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to the United Kingdom.
- 1824The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
- 1849Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
- 1863The 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.
- 1877Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
- 1879Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana – Zulu troops defeat British troops.
- 1879Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke’s Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
- 1889Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
- 1890The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1899Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
- 1901Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
- 1905Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
- 1906SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
- 1915Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
- 1917World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe.
- 1919Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
- 1924Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1927First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
- 1941World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
- 1944World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy.
- 1946Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1946Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people’s Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president; Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
- 1947KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- 1947New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1957Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1957The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
- 1959Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed.
- 1962The Organization of American States suspends Cuba’s membership.
- 1963The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
- 1968Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
- 1968Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
- 1969A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
- 1970The 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.
- 1971The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
- 1973A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
- 1973The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
- 1984The 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.
- 1987Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
- 1987Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
- 1990Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.
- 1991Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
- 1992Rebel forces occupy Zaire’s national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government’s resignation.
- 1995Israeli-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.
- 1999Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
- 2002Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 2006Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country’s first indigenous president.
- 2007At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
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Who Were Born On January 22?
- 1263Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328)
- 1440Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
- 1553Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625)
- 1561Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
- 1570Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631)
- 1592Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
- 1654Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
- 1690Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
- 1729Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
- 1733Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer (d. 1796)
- 1740Noah Phelps, American Spy (d. 1809)
- 1781François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
- 1788George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824)
- 1796Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
- 1797Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
- 1799Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
- 1820Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
- 1831Jack Slade, American frontier figure (d. 1864)
- 1831Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1917)
- 1840Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
- 1849August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
- 1858Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943)
- 1869Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
- 1869José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese military officer and politician (d. 1952)
- 1874Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
- 1874Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924)
- 1875D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
- 1876Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923)
- 1877Tom Jones, American baseball player (d. 1923)
- 1879Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
- 1880Bill O'Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920)
- 1881Ira Thomas, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1882Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
- 1886Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
- 1887Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
- 1889Amos Strunk, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- 1889Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
- 1890Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
- 1890Vinko Žganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
- 1891Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, and political theorist (d. 1937)
- 1892Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
- 1893Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
- 1897Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
- 1899Martti Haavio, Finnish poet (d. 1973)
- 1900Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
- 1902Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
- 1903Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
- 1903Robin Milford, British composer (d. 1959)
- 1904Arkady Gaidar, Russian children’s writer (d. 1941)
- 1904George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
- 1904John Milligan, American baseball player (d. 1972)
- 1906Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
- 1906Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
- 1907Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
- 1907Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
- 1907Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
- 1908Lev Davidovich Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- 1908Prince Oana, American baseball player (d. 1976)
- 1909Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
- 1909Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
- 1909U Thant, Burmese diplomat and 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
- 1911Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
- 1913Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
- 1913Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst
- 1913William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
- 1914Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
- 1915Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
- 1916Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
- 1916Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati author, poet, astrologist (d. 1994)
- 1916Henri Dutilleux, French composer
- 1917Huck Geary, American baseball player (d. 1981)
- 1918Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1919Diomedes Olivo, Dominican Republic baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1920Irving Kristol, American pundit, columnist and author (d. 2009)
- 1920Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
- 1922Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
- 1924J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
- 1925Bobby Young, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1925Johnny Bucha, American baseball player (d. 1996)
- 1927Lou Creekmur, American football player (d. 2009)
- 1928Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
- 1931Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
- 1932Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist (d. 2007)
- 1932Piper Laurie, American actress
- 1934Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1934Graham Kerr, British-born chef
- 1935Seymour Cassel, American actor
- 1936Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1936Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
- 1937Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
- 1937Joseph Wambaugh, American author
- 1938Altair, Brazilian footballer
- 1939Alfredo Palacio, former President of Ecuador
- 1939Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996)
- 1939J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
- 1939Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
- 1940George Seifert, American football coach
- 1940John Hurt, English actor
- 1942Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
- 1943Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress
- 1945Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (d. 2011)
- 1946Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (d. 2010)
- 1946Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1948Gilbert Levine, American conductor
- 1948Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1949Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
- 1949Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
- 1949Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
- 1950Pamela Salem, English actress
- 1951Leon Roberts, American baseball player
- 1951Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
- 1951Steve J. Spears, Australian playwright, actor, writer and singer (d. 2007)
- 1952Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007)
- 1952Ramón Avilés, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1952Teddy Gentry, American musician (Alabama)
- 1953Jim Jarmusch, American director
- 1953Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist
- 1954Chris Lemmon, American actor
- 1954Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
- 1954Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler
- 1955Thomas David Jones, American astronaut
- 1955Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
- 1956John Wesley Shipp, American actor
- 1956Steve Riley, American drummer
- 1957Brian Dayett, American baseball player
- 1957Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
- 1957Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
- 1957Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1957Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993)
- 1958Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
- 1959Linda Blair, American actress
- 1960Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
- 1961Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist
- 1961Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (d. 2010)
- 1962Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
- 1962Eric Schaeffer, American actor and director
- 1962Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- 1963Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
- 1963Javier Ortiz, American baseball player
- 1963Jeff Treadway, American baseball player
- 1964Joe Dudek, American football player
- 1964Nigel Benn, English boxer
- 1964Stojko Vranković, Croatian basketball player
- 1964Wayne Kirby, American baseball player
- 1965Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
- 1965Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
- 1965Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
- 1965DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
- 1965Diane Lane, American actress
- 1965Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1967Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
- 1967Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer and songwriter
- 1967Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1967Nick Gillingham, British swimmer
- 1968Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
- 1968Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan)
- 1968Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
- 1969John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
- 1969Keith Gordon, American baseball player
- 1969Olivia d'Abo, English actress
- 1970Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
- 1970Alex Ross, American comic book artist
- 1971Stan Collymore, English footballer
- 1972Gabriel Macht, American actor
- 1972Gonzalo Rodríguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
- 1972Katie Barberi, Mexican actress
- 1972Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress
- 1972Romi Park, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
- 1973Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
- 1974Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
- 1975Balthazar Getty, American actor
- 1975David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
- 1975Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
- 1975James Murray English actor
- 1976James Dearth, American football player
- 1976Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player
- 1977Aaron Rakers, American baseball player
- 1977Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
- 1977Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1977Luciano Andrade Rissutt, Brazilian footballer
- 1977Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter
- 1977Matthew Newton, Australian actor
- 1978Chone Figgins, American baseball player
- 1979Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
- 1980Christopher Masterson, American actor
- 1980Jake Grove, American football player
- 1980Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
- 1980Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese writer
- 1981Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
- 1981Beverley Mitchell, American actress
- 1981Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
- 1981Willa Ford, American singer
- 1982Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
- 1982Jason Peters, American football player
- 1983Shaun Cody, American football player
- 1984Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984Leon Powe, American basketball player
- 1984Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
- 1984Raica Oliveira, Brazilian model
- 1984Ubaldo Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
- 1985Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
- 1985Orianthi Panagaris, Australian guitarist
- 1986Daniel Wayne Smith, American reality television personality (d. 2006)
- 1986Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
- 1986Maher Magri, Tunisian footballer
- 1987Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1987Ray Rice, American football player
- 1987Shane Long, Irish footballer
- 1988Asher Allen, American football player
- 1988Greg Oden, American basketball player
- 1990Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
- 1991Alex MacDowall, British racing driver
- 1993Rio Haryanto, Indonesian racing driver
- 1993Tommy Knight, English actor
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Who Died On January 22?
- 239Cao Rui (Wei Ming Di), emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (b. 205)
- 1536Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
- 1575James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, regent of Scotland (b. 1516)
- 1599Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
- 1666Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
- 1750Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
- 1763John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
- 1767Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
- 1779Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
- 1779Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
- 1840Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
- 1892Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
- 1900David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
- 1901Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
- 1921Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
- 1922Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
- 1922Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
- 1922Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
- 1929R.C. Lehmann, English writer (b. 1856)
- 1930Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (b. 1867)
- 1931Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
- 1945Else Lasker-Schüler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
- 1949William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
- 1950Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
- 1950Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
- 1951Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
- 1954Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (b. 1872)
- 1957Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (b. 1876)
- 1959Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
- 1966Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
- 1967Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
- 1968Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
- 1973Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
- 1975Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
- 1978Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1978Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
- 1980Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (b. 1888)
- 1981Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
- 1982Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
- 1982Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
- 1985Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
- 1987Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
- 1988Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
- 1991Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
- 1991Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
- 1993Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
- 1994Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
- 1994Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (b. 1956)
- 1994Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1995Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
- 1995Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (b. 1890)
- 1997Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
- 1997Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
- 1997Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
- 1999Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
- 2000Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
- 2000Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
- 2001Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
- 2001Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
- 2002Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
- 2003Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
- 2004Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
- 2004Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
- 2004Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
- 2005César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
- 2005Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
- 2005Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
- 2005Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
- 2007Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
- 2007Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (b. 1962)
- 2007Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
- 2008Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
- 2008Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (b. 1920)
- 2008Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2009Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
- 2010Jean Simmons, English-American actress (b. 1929)
- 2010Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (b. 1932)
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