22 January History
- 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.
22 January Birthdays
- 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.