Tuesday, January 22, 2013

TODAY IN HISTORY

JANUARY 22


1689England's "Bloodless Revolution" reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.
1807President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
1813During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.
1824A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power.
1863In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud March."
1879Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa.
1905Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.
1912Second Monte Carlo auto race begins.
1913Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople.
1930Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica.
1932Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.
1939A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.
1943Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.
1944
U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome.
1970   The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first regularly scheduled commercial flight on a route from New York to London.
1957  Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
1971Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.
1979Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.
1982President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.

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