January 22
1901 - Queen Victoria of England died at age 81 after reigning for 63 years (the second-longest reign among British monarchs behind Elizabeth II, who reigned for 70 years); she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.
1905 - More than 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1938 - Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" was first performed publicly in Princeton, New Jersey.
1944 - During World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.
1947 - America's first commercially licensed television station west of the Mississippi River, KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, made its official debut.
1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, declared a nationwide constitutional right to abortion. (The high court would overrule Roe v. Wade in 2022, in the decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.)
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his Texas ranch at age 64.
1997 - The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state.
1998 - Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, California, to being the Unabomber responsible for three deaths and 23 injuries in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2008 - Actor Heath Ledger was found dead at age 28 from an accidental prescription overdose in a New York City apartment.
Birthdays
23 - Caitlin Clark (basketball player)
23 - Darianka Sanchez (model)
23 - Miranda McKeon (actress)
29 - Sami Gayle (actress)
53 - Gabriel Macht (actor)
56 - Olivia d'Abo (actress)
57 - Guy Fieri (chef/TV host)
60 - Diane Lane (actress)
66 - Linda Blair (actress)
76 - Steve Perry (singer)
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Today in Sports History - January 22
1951 - Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.
1968 - The NBA awarded franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix.
1969 - Roy Campanella and Stan Musial are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1973 - Joe Frazier lost the first fight of his professional career to George Foreman. He had been the undefeated heavyweight world champion since February 16, 1970 when he knocked out Jimmy Ellis. The event was HBO's first televised boxing match.
1983 - Houston became the first NBA team to not score a point in overtime. They lost to the Portland Trail Blazers after being outscored 17-0 in overtime.
1983 - Bjorn Borg retired from tennis. He had set a record by winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
1984 - Annette Kennedy (State University of New York) set a woman's collegiate basketball record when she scored 70 points.
1984 - The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 to win Super Bowl XVIII.
1989 - The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 to win Super Bowl XXIII.
1998 - Minnesota's new NHL franchise selected the nickname Wild.
1998 - The World League of American Football is renamed NFL Europe.
2001 - Former National Football League (NFL) player Rae Carruth was sentenced to a minimum 18 years and 11 months in prison for his role in the 1999 shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams. Adams died a month later from her wounds. The baby survived and lives with the victim's mother.
2002 - Pat Summerall announced that he would leave his NFL broadcasting partner, John Madden, after they called the Super Bowl for Fox Sports. The two had worked together for 21 years.
2003 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) became the third highest all-time scorer in the NBA.
2006 - Kobe Bryant scored 81 points, the second-highest single game total in NBA history, in the Los Angeles Lakers' 122-104 win over the Toronto Raptors.
2018 - DeMarcus Cousins of the New Orleans Pelicans has 44 points, 24 rebounds and 10 assists in a 132-128 win over the Chicago Bulls, becoming the first player since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1972 with 40+ points, 20+ rebounds and 10+ assists in a game.
2020 - The NFL's Oakland Raiders officially relocated to Las Vegas.
2024 - Joel Embiid scores 70 points in leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 133-123 win over the San Antonio Spurs, breaking the single game franchise scoring record of 67 points set by Wilt Chamberlain in 1967.
