SomeFacts | January 22

On this day - January 22

613 — Eight-month-old Heraclius Constantine is crowned as co-emperor ...

871 — Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are ...

1506 — The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the ...

1517 — The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate ...

1555 — The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now ...

1689 — The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James ...

1808 — The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing ...

1849 — Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine ...

1863 — The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and ...

1879 — Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift, just some 15 ...

1879 — Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Isandlwana results in a Zulu ...

1890 — The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, ...

1901 — Edward VII is proclaimed King of the United Kingdom after the ...

1905 — Bloody Sunday occurs in Saint Petersburg, beginning the 1905 ...

1906 — SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British ...

1915 — Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a ...

1917 — American entry into World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of ...

1919 — Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's ...

1924 — Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of ...

1927 — Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a ...

1941 — World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk ...

1943 — World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese ...

1944 — World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an ...

1946 — Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the ...

1946 — In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's ...

1947 — KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the ...

1957 — Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.

1963 — The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and West ...

1967 — Between dozens and hundreds of anti-Somocista demonstrators ...

1968 — Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to ...

1968 — Apollo Program: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar ...

1970 — The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", ...

1971 — The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important ...

1973 — In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in ...

1973 — A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano ...

1973 — The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress ...

1973 — The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions ...

1987 — Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of ...

1992 — Space Shuttle program: The space shuttle Discovery launches on ...

1995 — Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid suicide bombing: In ...

1998 — Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on ...

1999 — Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are ...

2006 — Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming ...

2007 — At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in ...

2009 — U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order to close ...

2024 — Ram Mandir is inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra ...