January 22
1901
Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens).
1905
500 workers were killed by the Czar’s troops in “Bloody Sunday” in St. Petersburg.
1938
Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J.
1973
The Supreme Court legalized some abortions in Roe v. Wade.
1997
The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.
Birthdays
George Balanchine
1904–83, American choreographer and ballet dancer,
Francis Bacon
philosopher (1561)
John Winthrop
colonial governor (1588)
Andre Marie Ampere
physicist (1775)
George Gordon Noel Byron
poet (1788)
August Strindberg
dramatist (1849)
Beatrice Potter Webb
socialist economist (1858)
D.W. Griffith
filmmaker (1880)
U Thant
U.N. statesman (1909)
Bill Bixby
actor, TV director (1934)
Diane Lane
actor (1965)