January 22
1498 - During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.
1901 - Queen Victoria of England died at age 81 after reigning for 63 years (the fourth-longest among longest-reigning monarchs, and the longest for reign for a queen.); she was succeeded on the throne by her son, Edward VII.
1905 - More than 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in the "Bloody Sunday" massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1922 - Pope Benedict XV died.
1938 - Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" was performed publicly for the first time in Princeton, New Jersey.
1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy during World War II.
1970 - The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch near Johnson City, Texas at age 64.
1973 - The United States Supreme Court legalized abortion in some cases with its groundbreaking Roe v. Wade decision.
1987 - Pennsylvania treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted of defrauding the state, proclaimed his innocence at a news conference before pulling out a gun, placing the barrel in his mouth and shooting himself to death in front of horrified onlookers.
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts at age 104.
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 in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2007 - Iran announced it had barred 38 nuclear inspectors on a United Nations list from entering the country in apparent retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed the previous month.
2008 - Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges.
2009 - President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects. (The facility remained in operation as lawmakers blocked efforts to transfer terror suspects to the United States; President Donald Trump later issued an order to keep the jail open and allow the Pentagon to bring new prisoners there.)
2010 - Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure as host of "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.
2010 - President Barack Obama tried to revive his battered agenda and rally Democrats with a renewed emphasis on jobs during a town hall meeting in Elyria, Ohio.
2015 - With thousands of abortion protesters swarming Washington in their annual March for Life, the House voted 242-179 to permanently forbid federal funds for most abortion coverage, even though the legislation had no realistic chance of passage.
2019 - The Supreme Court said the Trump administration could go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women as court challenges continued.
Birthdays
22 - Isabella Palmieri (actress)
24 - Sami Gayle (actress)
32 - Leah Totton (reality star)
37 - Phoebe Strole (actress/singer)
38 - Kevin Sheridan (actor)
39 - Ben Moody (singer)
39 - Beverly Mitchell (actress)
39 - Willa Ford (singer)
40 - Lizz Wright (singer)
40 - Christopher Kennedy Masterson (actor)
45 - Balthazar Getty (actor)
48 - Gabriel Macht (actor)
49 - Katie Finneran (actress)
51 - Olivia d'Abo (actress)
52 - Guy Fieri (chef)
55 - Regina Nicks (country singer)
55 - DJ Jazzy Jeff (actor/rap DJ)
55 - Diane Lane (actress)
61 - Linda Blair (actress)
63 - Mike Bossy (hockey player)
65 - John Wesley Shipp (actor)
71 - Steve Perry (singer)
83 - Joseph Wambaugh (actor)
88 - Piper Laurie (actress)
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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 new 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.
1982 - Reggie Jackson, a free agent at the time, ended five seasons as a New York Yankee when he signed a four-year contract with the California Angels.
1983 - The Houston Rockets 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 the extra period.
1983 - Bjorn Borg retired from tennis. He had set a record by winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
1984 - The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Tampa, Florida to win Super Bowl XVIII. Raiders running back Marcus Allen was named MVP.
1984 - Annette Kennedy of SUNY set a women's collegiate basketball record by scoring 70 points in a game.
1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in the fourth round to retain his undisputed heavyweight championship.
1989 - The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami to win Super Bowl XXIII. 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice is named MVP. After the game, 49ers coach Bill Walsh, who led the team to three Super Bowl titles, announces his retirement.
1990 - Will Clark signs a four-year, $15 million contract with the San Francisco Giants.
1998 - Minnesota's new NHL franchise selected the nickname Wild.
1998 - Rickey Henderson signs with the Oakland Athletics for the fourth time in his career.
1998 - The World League of American Football is renamed NFL Europe.
2001 - Former 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.
2002 - Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson held a press conference to announce an upcoming fight. After an altercation the fight was delayed until June when Lewis knocked Tyson out in the eighth round.
2002 - Theo Fleury (New York Rangers) made an obscene gesture to fans at the end of a 5-4 victory over the New York Islanders. The next day the NHL fined Fleury $1,000.
2003 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) became the third highest all-time scorer in the NBA.
2006 - Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 points in a game against the Toronto Raptors, the second-highest single game scoring total in NBA history, trailing only Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962.
2018 - DeMarcus Cousins of the New Orleans Pelicans records 44 points, 24 rebounds and 10 assists in a 132-128 double overtime 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.
2019 - Former New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera became baseball’s first unanimous Hall of Fame selection, as he was elected along with Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina and the late Roy Halladay.
1498 - During his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.
1901 - Queen Victoria of England died at age 81 after reigning for 63 years (the fourth-longest among longest-reigning monarchs, and the longest for reign for a queen.); she was succeeded on the throne by her son, Edward VII.
1905 - More than 500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in the "Bloody Sunday" massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1922 - Pope Benedict XV died.
1938 - Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" was performed publicly for the first time in Princeton, New Jersey.
1944 - Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy during World War II.
1970 - The Boeing 747 went on its first regularly scheduled commercial flight, from New York to London.
1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, died at his ranch near Johnson City, Texas at age 64.
1973 - The United States Supreme Court legalized abortion in some cases with its groundbreaking Roe v. Wade decision.
1987 - Pennsylvania treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted of defrauding the state, proclaimed his innocence at a news conference before pulling out a gun, placing the barrel in his mouth and shooting himself to death in front of horrified onlookers.
1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy, died in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts at age 104.
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 in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2007 - Iran announced it had barred 38 nuclear inspectors on a United Nations list from entering the country in apparent retaliation for U.N. sanctions imposed the previous month.
2008 - Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced by a U.S. federal judge in Miami to more than 17 years in prison on terrorism conspiracy charges.
2009 - President Barack Obama ordered the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects. (The facility remained in operation as lawmakers blocked efforts to transfer terror suspects to the United States; President Donald Trump later issued an order to keep the jail open and allow the Pentagon to bring new prisoners there.)
2010 - Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure as host of "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.
2010 - President Barack Obama tried to revive his battered agenda and rally Democrats with a renewed emphasis on jobs during a town hall meeting in Elyria, Ohio.
2015 - With thousands of abortion protesters swarming Washington in their annual March for Life, the House voted 242-179 to permanently forbid federal funds for most abortion coverage, even though the legislation had no realistic chance of passage.
2019 - The Supreme Court said the Trump administration could go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women as court challenges continued.
Birthdays
22 - Isabella Palmieri (actress)
24 - Sami Gayle (actress)
32 - Leah Totton (reality star)
37 - Phoebe Strole (actress/singer)
38 - Kevin Sheridan (actor)
39 - Ben Moody (singer)
39 - Beverly Mitchell (actress)
39 - Willa Ford (singer)
40 - Lizz Wright (singer)
40 - Christopher Kennedy Masterson (actor)
45 - Balthazar Getty (actor)
48 - Gabriel Macht (actor)
49 - Katie Finneran (actress)
51 - Olivia d'Abo (actress)
52 - Guy Fieri (chef)
55 - Regina Nicks (country singer)
55 - DJ Jazzy Jeff (actor/rap DJ)
55 - Diane Lane (actress)
61 - Linda Blair (actress)
63 - Mike Bossy (hockey player)
65 - John Wesley Shipp (actor)
71 - Steve Perry (singer)
83 - Joseph Wambaugh (actor)
88 - Piper Laurie (actress)
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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 new 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.
1982 - Reggie Jackson, a free agent at the time, ended five seasons as a New York Yankee when he signed a four-year contract with the California Angels.
1983 - The Houston Rockets 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 the extra period.
1983 - Bjorn Borg retired from tennis. He had set a record by winning 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships.
1984 - The Los Angeles Raiders defeat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Tampa, Florida to win Super Bowl XVIII. Raiders running back Marcus Allen was named MVP.
1984 - Annette Kennedy of SUNY set a women's collegiate basketball record by scoring 70 points in a game.
1988 - Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in the fourth round to retain his undisputed heavyweight championship.
1989 - The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami to win Super Bowl XXIII. 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice is named MVP. After the game, 49ers coach Bill Walsh, who led the team to three Super Bowl titles, announces his retirement.
1990 - Will Clark signs a four-year, $15 million contract with the San Francisco Giants.
1998 - Minnesota's new NHL franchise selected the nickname Wild.
1998 - Rickey Henderson signs with the Oakland Athletics for the fourth time in his career.
1998 - The World League of American Football is renamed NFL Europe.
2001 - Former 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.
2002 - Heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson held a press conference to announce an upcoming fight. After an altercation the fight was delayed until June when Lewis knocked Tyson out in the eighth round.
2002 - Theo Fleury (New York Rangers) made an obscene gesture to fans at the end of a 5-4 victory over the New York Islanders. The next day the NHL fined Fleury $1,000.
2003 - Michael Jordan (Washington Wizards) became the third highest all-time scorer in the NBA.
2006 - Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 points in a game against the Toronto Raptors, the second-highest single game scoring total in NBA history, trailing only Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962.
2018 - DeMarcus Cousins of the New Orleans Pelicans records 44 points, 24 rebounds and 10 assists in a 132-128 double overtime 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.
2019 - Former New York Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera became baseball’s first unanimous Hall of Fame selection, as he was elected along with Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina and the late Roy Halladay.
