What Happened on Jan 22

Wreck of the SS Valencia

On Monday, January 22, 1906, the coastal passenger liner SS Valencia, en route from San Francisco to Seattle with 108 passengers and 65 crew... Read more

Overseas Railway Linking The Florida Keys To The Mainland Is Completed

On January 22, 1912, the nearly twenty thousand residents of the city of Key West, Florida, located on a small island some 128 miles south of the... Read more

Gordon Zubrod Is Born

Dr Charles Gordon Zubrod (January 22, 1914-January 19, 1999) was an American oncologist who played a prominent role in the introduction of... Read more

"Easy Street" (film) is Released

Easy Street is a 1917 short comedy film by Charlie Chaplin. In the film, the police are failing to maintain law and order and so it is Chaplin,... Read more

Pope Benedict XV dies

Benedict XV fell ill with pneumonia in early January 1922. He succumbed to pneumonia on 22 January 1922. Possibly the least remembered pope of the... Read more

Initial Allied Landings at Anzio and Cassino in Operation Shingle

The landings began on January 22, 1944. Although resistance had been expected, as seen at Salerno during 1943, the initial landings were... Read more

American Airlines Flight 6780 Crashes

Flight 6780 originated at Buffalo, New York, for Newark, New Jersey, with stops scheduled at Rochester, New York, and Syracuse, New York. The first... Read more

Aretha Franklin Releases "Lady Soul"

Lady Soul is a soul album by Aretha Franklin, released on January 22, 1968 (see 1968 in music). The album was her second chart-topper, the... Read more

Apollo 5 Mission

Apollo 5 was the first unmanned flight of the Apollo Lunar Module, which would later carry astronauts to the lunar surface. It lifted off on... Read more

"La Femme Infidele" Is Released

The Unfaithful Wife (French: La Femme infidèle) is a 1968 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. It was remade in English in 2002 as Unfaithful,... Read more

United States Marine Corps Launches Operation Dewey Canyon

Operation Dewey Canyon was the last major offensive by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. It took place from January 22 through... Read more

President Lyndon B. Johnson Dies

Lyndon Baines Johnson died at his ranch at 4:39 p.m. on January 22, 1973 at age 64, from a third myocardial infarction (heart attack). His death... Read more

Supreme Court Issues its Decision on Roe v Wade

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), a landmark case decided by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion, is one of the most... Read more

Apple Releases Groundbreaking MacPaint with Macintosh

MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal... Read more

Super Bowl XVIII - Raiders 38, Redskins 9

Super Bowl XVIII was an American football game that was played on January 22, 1984 at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida to decide the National... Read more

MST3K Ep. K10 - "Cosmic Princess"

Movie Summary: A re-edit of two Space: 1999 episodes, "The Metamorph" and "Space Warp". Moonbase Alpha encounters an evil scientist with... Read more

Super Bowl XXIII - 49ers 20, Bengals 16

Super Bowl XXIII was an American football game played on January 22, 1989 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida to decide the National Football... Read more

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!' is Published

The master of enjoyable didacticism offers a flight of fancy into the future of a generic "you" who is venturing out into the world, where he will... Read more

MST3K Ep. 523 - Village of the Giants

A gang of teenagers (led by Beau Bridges) eat an experimental chemical (brewed by Ron Howard) which turns them into giants, and they become the... Read more

Radiohead releases "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" single

"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (commonly referred to as "Street Spirit") is a song by English alternative rock band Radiohead, featured on their 1995... Read more

Bad Religion releases The Process of Belief

The Process of Belief is the twelfth studio album by the American punk rock band Bad Religion. It was produced by its leaders Greg Graffin and... Read more

Chappelle's Show - Season 1 Ep. 1

Skits: Mitsubishi Commercial, Popcopy, Nat King Cole, Home Stenographer, Frontline: Clayton Bigsby Popcopy - A parody of the Kinko's... Read more

Key CIA Prisoner Hassan Ghul Detained by Kurdish Police

One official said Ghul was "definitely in Iraq to promote an Al Qaeda, Islamic extremist agenda." Ghul is described by officials as a facilitator... Read more

Indianapolis Colts defeat New England Patriots, 38-34

A man named "Lovie" from a place called Big Sandy, Texas, is going to the Super Bowl. I don't exactly know where I'm going with that, but you've... Read more

Keane releases "A Bad Dream" single

"A Bad Dream", often mistitled as "Bad Dream", is a song performed and composed by English rock band Keane appearing as the fifth track on their... Read more