more events on January 22
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1982
President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.
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1979
Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.
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1971
Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.
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1944
U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome.
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1943
Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.
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1939
A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.
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1932
Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.
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1930
Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica.
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1913
Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople.
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1912
Second Monte Carlo auto race begins.
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1906
Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneer aviator.
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1905
Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.
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1890
Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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1879
Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in South Africa.
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1874
D.W. [David Wark] Griffith, influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance).
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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 the “Mud March.”
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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.
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1813
During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
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1807
President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
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1788
Lord George Byron, English romantic poet (“Lara,” “Don Juan.”)
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1689
England’s “Bloodless Revolution” reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.
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1561
Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, essayist (The Advancement of Learning).
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1440
Ivan III (the Great), grand prince of Russia.