January 22
1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years at age 81; she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.
1905 - More than 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1922 - Pope Benedict XV died.
1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy during World War II.
1970 - The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas at age 64.
1973 - The United States Supreme Court, on a 7-2 vote in the Roe v Wade case, legalized abortion nationwide in some instances.
1987 -
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts at age 104.
1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.
1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, California, to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2007 - Iran announced it had barred 38 nuclear inspectors on a United Nations list from entering the country in apparent retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed the previous month.
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. (The prison remains open.)
2010 - Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure as host of "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.
2016 - North Korea said it had detained Otto Warmbier, a university student from Ohio, for what the authoritarian nation called a “hostile act.” (Warmbier was later sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor; he’d said he had tried to steal a propaganda banner as a trophy for an acquaintance. Warmbier died in 2017, shortly after he returned to the U.S. in a coma and showing apparent signs of torture while in custody.)
2020 - Chinese health authorities urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings after warning that a new viral illness that had infected hundreds of people and caused at least nine deaths could spread further. Health officials in Washington state said they were actively monitoring 16 people who’d come in close contact with a traveler to China, the first U.S. resident known to be infected with the virus.
2020 - In opening arguments at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, House Democrats appealed to skeptical Republican senators to oust Trump from office to “protect our democracy.”
Birthdays
25 - Sami Gayle (actress)
31 - Alize Cornet (tennis player)
33 - Leah Totton (reality star)
38 - Phoebe Strole (actress/singer)
40 - Beverley Mitchell (actress)
40 - Willa Ford (singer)
41 - Christopher Kennedy Masterson (actor)
46 - Balthazar Getty (actor)
49 - Gabriel Macht (actor)
50 - Katie Finneran (actress)
52 - Olivia d'Abo (actress)
53 - Guy Fieri (chef / TV host)
56 - Diane Lane (actress)
62 - Linda Blair (actress)
64 - Mike Bossy (hockey player)
66 - John Wesley Shipp (actor)
69 - Teddy Gentry (country singer)
72 - Steve Perry (singer)
89 - Piper Laurie (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 22
1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.
1968 - The NBA awarded franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix.
1969 - Roy Campanella and Stan Musial are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1973 - Joe Frazier lost the first fight of his professional career to George Foreman. He had been the undefeated heavyweight world champion since February 16, 1970 when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis. The event was HBO's first televised boxing match.
1982 - Reggie Jackson, a free agent at the time, ended five seasons as a New York Yankee when he signed a four-year contract with the California Angels.
1983 - Houston became the first NBA team to not score a point in overtime. They lost to the Portland Trail Blazers after being outscored 17-0 in overtime.
1983 - Bjorn Borg announced his retirement from tennis.
1984 - The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XVIII; Los Angeles running back Marcus Allen is named MVP.
1989 - The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami to win Super Bowl XXIII; 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice is named MVP. Following the game, 49ers coach Bill Walsh announces his retirement after having guided the franchise to three Super Bowl championships.
1998 - Minnesota's new NHL franchise announced the nickname "Wild".
1998 - The World League of American Football is renamed NFL Europe.
2001 - Former National Football League (NFL) player Rae Carruth was sentenced to a minimum 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Adams died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived and lives with the victim's mother.
2002 - Pat Summerall announced that he would leave his NFL broadcasting partner, John Madden, after they called the Super Bowl for Fox Sports. The two had worked together for 21 years.
2003 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) became the third highest all-time scorer in the NBA.
2006 - Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 points, the second-highest single-game total in NBA history, in the Los Angeles Lakers' 122-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors.
2018 - DeMarcus Cousins of the New Orleans Pelicans records 44 points, 24 rebound and 10 assists in a 132-128 double overtime win over the Chicago Bulls; Cousins becomes the first player since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1972 with 40+ points, 20+ rebounds and 10+ assists in a game.
1901 - Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years at age 81; she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.
1905 - More than 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1922 - Pope Benedict XV died.
1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy during World War II.
1970 - The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas at age 64.
1973 - The United States Supreme Court, on a 7-2 vote in the Roe v Wade case, legalized abortion nationwide in some instances.
1987 -
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts at age 104.
1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.
1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, California, to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2007 - Iran announced it had barred 38 nuclear inspectors on a United Nations list from entering the country in apparent retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed the previous month.
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. (The prison remains open.)
2010 - Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure as host of "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.
2016 - North Korea said it had detained Otto Warmbier, a university student from Ohio, for what the authoritarian nation called a “hostile act.” (Warmbier was later sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor; he’d said he had tried to steal a propaganda banner as a trophy for an acquaintance. Warmbier died in 2017, shortly after he returned to the U.S. in a coma and showing apparent signs of torture while in custody.)
2020 - Chinese health authorities urged people in the city of Wuhan to avoid crowds and public gatherings after warning that a new viral illness that had infected hundreds of people and caused at least nine deaths could spread further. Health officials in Washington state said they were actively monitoring 16 people who’d come in close contact with a traveler to China, the first U.S. resident known to be infected with the virus.
2020 - In opening arguments at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, House Democrats appealed to skeptical Republican senators to oust Trump from office to “protect our democracy.”
Birthdays
25 - Sami Gayle (actress)
31 - Alize Cornet (tennis player)
33 - Leah Totton (reality star)
38 - Phoebe Strole (actress/singer)
40 - Beverley Mitchell (actress)
40 - Willa Ford (singer)
41 - Christopher Kennedy Masterson (actor)
46 - Balthazar Getty (actor)
49 - Gabriel Macht (actor)
50 - Katie Finneran (actress)
52 - Olivia d'Abo (actress)
53 - Guy Fieri (chef / TV host)
56 - Diane Lane (actress)
62 - Linda Blair (actress)
64 - Mike Bossy (hockey player)
66 - John Wesley Shipp (actor)
69 - Teddy Gentry (country singer)
72 - Steve Perry (singer)
89 - Piper Laurie (actress)
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Today in Sports History - January 22
1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.
1968 - The NBA awarded franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix.
1969 - Roy Campanella and Stan Musial are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1973 - Joe Frazier lost the first fight of his professional career to George Foreman. He had been the undefeated heavyweight world champion since February 16, 1970 when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis. The event was HBO's first televised boxing match.
1982 - Reggie Jackson, a free agent at the time, ended five seasons as a New York Yankee when he signed a four-year contract with the California Angels.
1983 - Houston became the first NBA team to not score a point in overtime. They lost to the Portland Trail Blazers after being outscored 17-0 in overtime.
1983 - Bjorn Borg announced his retirement from tennis.
1984 - The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XVIII; Los Angeles running back Marcus Allen is named MVP.
1989 - The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami to win Super Bowl XXIII; 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice is named MVP. Following the game, 49ers coach Bill Walsh announces his retirement after having guided the franchise to three Super Bowl championships.
1998 - Minnesota's new NHL franchise announced the nickname "Wild".
1998 - The World League of American Football is renamed NFL Europe.
2001 - Former National Football League (NFL) player Rae Carruth was sentenced to a minimum 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Adams died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived and lives with the victim's mother.
2002 - Pat Summerall announced that he would leave his NFL broadcasting partner, John Madden, after they called the Super Bowl for Fox Sports. The two had worked together for 21 years.
2003 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) became the third highest all-time scorer in the NBA.
2006 - Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 points, the second-highest single-game total in NBA history, in the Los Angeles Lakers' 122-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors.
2018 - DeMarcus Cousins of the New Orleans Pelicans records 44 points, 24 rebound and 10 assists in a 132-128 double overtime win over the Chicago Bulls; Cousins becomes the first player since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1972 with 40+ points, 20+ rebounds and 10+ assists in a game.