REMINISCE: Today In World History

This day 22nd January:

565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.

871 - Battle of Basing: Danish invasion army beats Saxon Ethelred of Wessex

1371 - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned

1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican.
1510 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany

1517 - Turks conquer Cairo

1528 - England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V

Queen of England and Ireland Elizabeth I

1575 - English queenElizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd 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 William of Orange (future King William III of Britain), summons Convention Parliament to discuss ruling jointly with his wife Mary (daughter of exiled King James II)

1690 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French

1758 - Russian troops occupy Königsberg, 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, Michigan Territory

1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC

1816 - Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"

1817 - British freighter Diana sinks off Malaya

1824 - Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.

Naturalist Charles Darwin

1831 - Charles Darwintakes his Bachelors of Art exam

1837 - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands

1840 - New Zealand Company settlers arrive aboard the Aurora at Te Whanganui a Tara, which becomes Port Nicholson, Wellington

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 government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20

1863 - Union General Burnside's "Mud March"

1873 - British SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness, England, 300 die

1877 - Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.

1879 - Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa

1879 - James Shields (D) elected US senator from Missouri after previously serving as US senator from Illinois & Minnesota

1879 - Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders.

1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park, New York

1883 - England complete 1st innings victory in Tests v Aust MCG

1889 - Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C.

1890 - Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in NYC

1895 - National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati

1899 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.

Queen of the United Kingdom Victoria

1901 - After 63 years Britain stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series & begins King Edward VII series

1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty concerning the USA's right to the Panama Canal is signed by the Colombian Charge d'affaires in Washington, D.C. (never ratified)

1905 - In St Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday'

1906 - SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.

1909 - Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich

1910 - Opera "Germania" premieres in NYC

1914 - Paul Claudel's "L'échange" premieres in Paris

1918 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)

1924 - Government of Stanley Baldwin resigns in Great Britain

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 - -35°F (-37°C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record)

1931 - French government of Steeg falls

1931 - VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam

1931 - Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.

1934 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's opera "Lady MacBeth" premieres in Leningrad

1936 - French Laval government falls

1938 - "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, NH, premieres (NJ)

1939 - Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated

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 - Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06)

1943 - 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record)

1943 - Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach[1944]-

1943 - Allied Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th

1943 - Temperature rises 49°F (9°C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD

1944 - Allied forces begin landing at Anzio on the Italian mainland

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

1950 - Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open

1951 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom

1951 - Fidel Castro is ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter

Playwright Arthur Miller

1953 - Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premieres in NYC

1953 - 1953 NFL Draft: Harry Babcock from University of Georgia first pick by San Francisco 49ers

1954 - 11th Golden Globes: The Robe, Spencer Tracy, & Audrey Hepburn win

1955 - Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms

1956 - 30 people die in a train crash in Los Angeles

1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open

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 that less than 1% of UFOs are unknown objects

1960 - 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia

LPGA Golfer Betsy Rawls

1960 - Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title

1962 - The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership.

1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament

1963 - The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany was signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.

1964 - Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)

1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New York's World Fair

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 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit

MLB Catcher Roy Campanella

1969 - Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame

1970 - 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York City to London in 6½ hours

1970 - Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa v Australia, Cape Town

1971 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono 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

1972 - An anti-internment march is held at Magilligan strand, County Derry; as the march nears the internment camp it is stopped by members of the Green Jackets and the Parachute Regiment of the British Army, who used barbed wire to close off the beach

1973 - George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1973 - Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions

1973 - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong sign boundary accord

Boxing Champ George Foreman

1975 - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched

1976 - Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record)

1979 - 10,000s UK public sector workers go on strike

1980 - Russian dissidentsAndrei Sakharov & Jelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky

1980 - PGA begins a senior golf tour

1980 - West Indies beat England 2-0 to win cricket's 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 Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 & win 113-96

Nuclear Physicist & Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov

1983 - NFC Championship Game: Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 31-17

1984 - Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts

1984 - Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates

1984 - Super Bowl XVIII: LA Raiders beat Wash Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Marcus Allen, LA Raiders, RB

1985 - -30°F (-34°C), 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

1986 - Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North

1987 - Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5

1987 - Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago v Leeward Is

1988 - 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS v Transvaal

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson

1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title

1989 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1989 - Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR

1989 - After winning his third Super Bowl as head coach of the San Fransisco 49ers, Bill Walsh retires

1990 - 17th American Music Awards: Paula Abdul & Bobby Brown win

1990 - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide

1990 - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants

1990 - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.

1990 - President Mikhail Gorbachev sends Red Troops into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan

1991 - Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev

1991 - Kuwaiti oil facilities are destroyed by Iraqi forces

1992 - Princess Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride

1992 - Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space

1992 - Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.

1993 - Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77

1994 - 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY Rangers

1994 - 5.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Sumatra

1994 - 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Tom Hanks, & Holly Hunter win

1995 - Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed

1995 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament

1997 - Space shuttle Atlantis successfully returns to Earth

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

MLB Outfielder Rickey Henderson

1998 - World League of American Football renamed as NFL Europe

1999 - Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

2001 - The British government launches pro-vaccine campaign

2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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

2006 - Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

2006 - Kobe Bryant scores a career-high 81 points in a victory against the Toronto Raptors, the second most in NBA history in one single game

2006 - AFC Championship Game: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Denver Broncos 34-17

2006 - NFC Championship Game: Seattle Seahawks beat Carolina Panthers 34-14

NBA Guard Kobe Bryant

2007 - The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

2010 - Conan O'Brien's last Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot.

2012 - AFC Championship Game: New England Patriots beat Baltimore Ravens 23-20

2012 - NFC Championship Game: New York Giants beat San Francisco 49ers 20-17 (OT)

2013 - A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people

2013 - The Bank of Japan doubles its inflation target to 2% and announces open-ended asset purchases for 2014 in the hope of ending deflation

2014 - Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres

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