What are the important events that happened on January 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 22: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 22 is the 22^nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 9, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 473,856 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icosidigon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 19 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,049 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 22 Historical Events

• 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 by Russia.
• 1905 –
  Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
• 1909 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
• 1927 –
  First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
• 1947 –
  KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
• 1968 –
  Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
• 1968 –
  Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
• 1973 –
  A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
• 1987 –
  Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• 1995 –
  Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.

Who were born on January 22?

• 1561 –
  Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
• 1908 –
  Lev Davidovich Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
• 1909 –
  U Thant, Burmese diplomat and 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
• 1920 –
  Irving Kristol, American pundit, columnist and author (d. 2009)
• 1935 –
  Seymour Cassel, American actor
• 1949 –
  Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
• 1972 –
  Romi Park, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• 1974 –
  Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
• 1980 –
  Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
• 1981 –
  Willa Ford, American singer

Who died on January 22?

• 1575 –
  James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, regent of Scotland (b. 1516)
• 1750 –
  Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
• 1900 –
  David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
• 1957 –
  Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (b. 1876)
• 1966 –
  Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
• 1967 –
  Robert Henriques, English writer (b. 1905)
• 2004 –
  Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
• 2004 –
  Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2005 –
  Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
• 2008 –
  Roberto Gari, American actor (b. 1920)