On This Day:
Sunday January 22, 2012
This is the 22nd day of the year, with 344 days remaining
in 2012.
Fact of the Day: Elvis
When Elvis Presley performed live concerts the crowd
inevitably demanded as many encores from him as they could
get. Finally, when he at last left the building, it was
announced to the crowd so they would harbor no further hopes
of his returning to the stage. The announcement "Elvis has
left the building," would effectively get the audience to
finally go home.
Holidays
Feast day of St. Dominic of Sora, St. Berthwald of Ramsbury,
St. Anastasius the Persian, St. Blesilla, St. Vincent
Pallotti, and St. Vincent of Saragossa.
Netherlands:
Elfstedentocht.
New
Zealand: Anniversary Day.
St.
Vincent: Discovery Day.
Ukraine:
Ukrainian Day.
Events
1689
- England's
"Bloodless
Revolution" reached its climax when parliament invited
William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.
1771
- The Falkland
Islands were ceded to Great
Britain by Spain.
1807
- President Thomas
Jefferson exposed a plot by Aaron
Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
1840
- The first British colonists to New
Zealand arrived at Port
Nicholson on Auckland
Island.
1905
- The first Russian
Revolution began when czarist troops opened fire on a
peaceful group of workers marching to the Winter Palace in St.
Petersburg to petition their grievances to Czar
Nicholas II. It became known as "Bloody
Sunday."
1943
- In the first land victory over the Japanese in World
War II, the Allies took New
Guinea.
1968
- The comedy show "Rowan
& Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on TV.
1970
- The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing
747 took place, starting in New York
and landing in London
about 6.5 hours later.
1972
- The United
Kingdom, the Irish
Republic, and Denmark
joined the Common
Market.
1973
- The Supreme
Court handed down its Roe
v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion during the
first two trimesters.
1973
- American boxer George
Foreman knocked out Joe
Frazier in Kingston,
Jamaica,
becoming the world heavyweight boxing champion.
1996
- A mass grave containing nearly 3,000 Muslim and Croat
victims of Serb ethnic cleansing was discovered near the
Bosnian town of Brcko.
1997
- Madeleine
Albright was confirmed by the Senate
as the nation's first female Secretary of State.
1998
- Theodore
Kaczynski pleaded guilty in California
to being the Unabomber,
in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2006
- Evo
Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia.
Births
1440
- Ivan
III (Ivan
the Great), grand prince of Moscow.
1561
- Francis
Bacon, English philosopher, writer.
1788
- Lord
Byron (George
Gordon Byron), British poet.
1875
- David
(D.W.) Griffith, American film producer, director.
1904
- George
Balanchine (Georgi
Balanchivadze), Russian-born choreographer, founder of
New
York City Ballet and School
of American Ballet.
1909
- U
Thant, statesman from Burma/Myanmar,
United
Nations Secretary-General (1961-1971).
1934
- London-born
Graham
Kerr, a chef who gained fame through his cooking show
The
Galloping Gourmet.
1937
- Joseph
Wambaugh, American author.
1949
- Steve
Perry, American singer and musician.
1960
- Michael
Hutchence, the original lead singer of the Australian
rock band INXS.
1980
- Christopher
Masterson, American actor.
Deaths
1901
- Queen
Victoria of the United
Kingdom.
1973
- Lyndon
B Johnson, 36th President of the United
States of America.
1994
- Telly
Savalas, American film and television actor.
2002
- Stanley
Marcus, American business executive.
2003
- Bill
Mauldin, political cartoonist born in Mountain
Park, New
Mexico.
2004
- Ann
Miller (born Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier), American
actress and dancer.
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