| 1807 |
|
President Thomas Jefferson exposes a
plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest. |
| 1813 |
|
During the War of 1812, British
forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an
attack on Fort Detroit. |
| 1824 |
|
A 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. |
| 1863 |
|
In an attempt to out flank Robert E.
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads
his army on a march to north Frederickburg, but foul weather
bogs his army down in what will become known as "Mud
March." |
| 1879 |
|
Eighty-two British soldiers hold off
attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in
South Africa.
Zulu Mountain Trap Sprung. |
| 1905 |
|
Russian troops fire on civilians
beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg. |
| 1912 |
|
Second Monte Carlo auto race begins.
Visit
the past of the automobile. |
| 1913 |
|
Turkey consents to the Balkan peace
terms and gives up Adrianople. |
| 1930 |
|
Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast
area of Antarctica. Was
Byrd the first one to fly over the North Pole? |
| 1932 |
|
Government troops crush a Communist
uprising in Northern Spain. |
| 1939 |
|
A Nazi order erases the old officer
caste, tying the army directly to the Party. |
| 1943 |
|
Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for
Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.A
secret ear for the Desert Fox. |
| 1944 |
|
U.S. troops under Major General John
P. Lucas make an
amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just
south of Rome. |
| 1971 |
|
Communist forces shell Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, for the first time. Losing
Ground to the Khmer Rouge. |
| 1979 |
|
Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of
the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut. |
| 1982 |
|
President Ronald Reagan formally
links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland. |
Born on January 22 |
| 1440 |
|
Ivan III (the Great), grand prince
of Russia. |
| 1561 |
|
Sir Francis Bacon, English
philosopher, statesman, essayist (The Advancement of Learning). |
| 1788 |
|
Lord George Byron, English romantic
poet ("Lara," "Don Juan.") |
| 1874 |
|
D.W. [David Wark] Griffith,
influential U.S. film director (The Birth of A Nation, Intolerance). |
| 1890 |
|
Fred Vinson, Thirteenth Chief
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 1906 |
|
Willa Brown-Chappell, pioneer
aviator. |
