January 22
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[edit] Events
- 1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican.
- 1863 - The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.
- 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift - 139 British soldiers successfully defended their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
- 1901 - Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.
- 1944 - World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
- 1957 - Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
[edit] Births
- 1440 - Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505)
- 1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
- 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
- 1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
- 1906 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
- 1935 - Matt Koehl, American National Socialist leader
[edit] Deaths
- 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
- 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
- 2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
