Saturday, January 22nd The 022nd day of 2011. There are 343 days left in the year. | |
Today's Highlights in History | |||
See a larger version of this front page. | On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. (Go to article.) | ||
On January 22, 1887, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about New York City's government. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) |
On this date in: | |
1901 | Queen Victoria died at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne. |
1905 | Russian troops opened fired on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday." |
1922 | Pope Benedict XV died. |
1938 | Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premiered in Princeton, N.J. |
1944 | Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II. |
1953 | The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway. |
1968 | "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC. |
1970 | The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London. |
1973 | Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64. |
1995 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 104. |
1997 | The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state. |
1998 | Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. |
2006 | Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indian president, took office. |
2008 | Actor Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead of an accidental prescription drug overdose. |
2008 | Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges. |
2009 | President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects. |
2010 | Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure on "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months. |
Current Birthdays | ||||||||||||||||||||
Diane Lane turns 46 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||
AP Photo/Dan Steinberg Actress Diane Lane turns 46 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Historic Birthdays | |
Fred Vinson | |
1/22/1890 - 9/8/1953 Chief Justice of the United States (Go to obit.) | |
36 | Lord George Gordon Byron 1/22/1788 - 4/19/1824 English Romantic poet |
63 | August Strindberg 1/22/1849 - 5/14/1912 Swedish playwright/novelist |
82 | Robert Brookings 1/22/1850 - 11/15/1932 American businessman/philanthropist |
73 | D. W. Griffith 1/22/1875 - 7/23/1948 American film director |
94 | Marcel Dassault 1/22/1892 - 4/18/1986 French aircraft designer |
84 | Rosa Ponselle 1/22/1897 - 5/25/1981 American coloratura soprano |
79 | George Balanchine 1/22/1904 - 4/30/1983 Russian-bn. American choreographer |
65 | U Thant 1/22/1909 - 11/25/1974 Myanmar 3rd U.N. Secy. General |
65 | Howard Moss 1/22/1922 - 9/16/1987 American poet/editor of The New Yorker |
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