Today in History : January 22
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 the “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.
Born on January 22
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.
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 the “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.
Born on January 22
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.
