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A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
January 22
| 1689 | England's "Bloodless Revolution" reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns. | |
| 1807 | President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest. | |
| 1813 | During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit. | |
| 1824 | A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power. | |
| 1863 | In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud March." | |
| 1879 | Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa. | |
| 1905 | Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg. | |
| 1912 | Second Monte Carlo auto race begins. | |
| 1913 | Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople. | |
| 1930 | Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica. | |
| 1932 | Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain. | |
| 1939 | A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party. | |
| 1943 | Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave. | |
| 1944 | U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome. | |
| 1971 | Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time. | |
| 1979 | Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut. | |
| 1982 | President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland. | |
| Born on January 22 | ||
| 1440 | Ivan III (the Great), grand prince of Russia. | |
| 1561 | Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, essayist (The Advancement of Learning). | |
| 1788 | Lord George Byron, English romantic poet ("Lara," "Don Juan.") | |
| 1874 | D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance). | |
| 1890 | Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. | |
| 1906 | Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneer aviator. | |
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