Apollo Program: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space. Apollo 5 was an uncrewed mission launched on January 22, 1968, and…
Tag: 22 January
22 January 1906
SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. The SS Valencia, a passenger steamship, met a tragic fate…
22 January 1905
Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, which occurred on January 9, 1905 (Julian calendar; January 22,…
22 January 1915
Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
22 January 1917
American entry into World War I: President Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe.
22 January 1984
The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television…
22 January 1999
The Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India. Graham Stuart…
22 January 1970
The world’s first “jumbo jet”, The Boeing 747, enters commercial service. Thanks to its distinctive hump, Boeing’s 747 “jumbo jet” is the world’s most recognised…
22 January 1905
Bloody Sunday takes place in Saint Petersburg, starting the 1905 revolution. That Sunday morning, 22th of January 1905 in St Petersburg, some 150,000 people gathered…