22 January

Notable Births

Princess Beatrice

b. 2025

British princess (born 1988)

Pau Cubarsí

b. 2007

Spanish footballer (born 2007)

Caitlin Clark

b. 2002

American basketball player (born 2002)

Laia Codina

b. 2000

Spanish footballer (born 2000)

Andrew Thomas (American football)

b. 1999

American football player (born 1999)

Silentó

b. 1998

American former rapper (born 1998)

Walid Cheddira

b. 1998

Moroccan footballer (born 1998)

Fan Zhendong

b. 1997

Chinese table tennis player

Dillon Brooks

b. 1996

Canadian basketball player (born 1996)

Sami Gayle

b. 1996

American actress (born 1996)

Josh Ho-Sang

b. 1996

Canadian ice hockey player and rapper (born 1996)

Kumi Sasaki

b. 1996

Japanese singer and radio personality (born 1996)

Tyrone Taylor

b. 1994

American baseball player (born 1994)

Vincent Aboubakar

b. 1992

Cameroonian footballer (born 1992)

Alizé Cornet

b. 1990

French tennis player (born 1990)

Mike Hauschild

b. 1990

American baseball player (born 1990)

Logic (rapper)

b. 1990

American rapper and singer (born 1990)

Oscar Möller

b. 1989

Swedish ice hockey player

Theo Robinson

b. 1989

English football player (born 1989)

August Strindberg

b. 1849

Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)

Notable Deaths

Hifumi Katō

d. 2026

Japanese shogi player (1940–2026)

Lin Brehmer

d. 2023

American radio host (1954–2023)

Thích Nhất Hạnh

d. 2022

Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)

Hank Aaron

d. 2021

American baseball player (1934–2021)

Ursula K. Le Guin

d. 2018

American author (1929–2018)

William B. Jordan

d. 2018

American art historian (1940–2018)

Masaya Nakamura (businessman)

d. 2017

Japanese businessman (1925–2017)

Yordano Ventura

d. 2017

Dominican baseball player (1991–2017)

Homayoun Behzadi

d. 2016

Iranian footballer (1942–2016)

Cecil Parkinson

d. 2016

British politician (1931–2016)

Lois Ramsey

d. 2016

Australian actress

Kamer Genç

d. 2016

Turkish politician (1940–2016)

Fabrizio de Miranda

d. 2015

Italian engineer

Wendell Ford

d. 2015

American politician (1924–2015)

Maziar Partow

d. 2014

Robert Bonnaud

d. 2013

French historian (1929–2013)

Hinton Mitchem

d. 2013

American politician

Simon Marsden

d. 2012

English photographer and author

Joe Paterno

d. 2012

American football player and coach (1926–2012)

Queen Victoria

d. 1901

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

On This Day in History

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2024

Ram Mandir is inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh after 500 years of dispute.

Ram Mandir

2009

U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; congressional opposition will prevent it being implemented.

Barack Obama

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2007

At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.

22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings

2006

Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

Evo Morales

1999

Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

Graham Staines

1998

Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

Space Shuttle Endeavour

1995

Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid suicide bombing: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israeli soldiers.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

1992

Space Shuttle program: The space shuttle Discovery launches on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.

Space Shuttle program

1987

Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.

Philippines

1973

The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states. This decision is subsequently overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022.

Supreme Court of the United States

1973

The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo Moon landing mission.

Apollo 17

1973

A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.

Boeing 707

1973

In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante Sr..

Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman

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1971

The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.

Singapore Declaration

1970

The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.

Boeing 747