Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 22, 2021

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 * 1689 – The Convention Parliament met to decide the fate of the English throne after James II, the last Catholic monarch, had fled to France as a result of the Glorious Revolution.
 * 1906 – SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
 * 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Buna–Gona on New Guinea ended with an Allied victory after two months of fighting in which the Japanese fought with a resolve and tenacity not previously encountered.
 * 1957 – New York City police arrested George Metesky, better known as the "Mad Bomber", for planting over 30 bombs over 16 years throughout the city.
 * 1969 – Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev survived what was seen as an assassination attempt, an incident that was not revealed to the public until after the fall of the Soviet Union.
 * 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
 * 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
 * 1987 – After being convicted of receiving bribes, Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself in front of television cameras during a press conference.
 * 2006 – Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first democratically elected indigenous leader.
 * Born/died: | John Donne |b|1572| Noah Phelps |b|1740| Lord Byron |b|1788| Gisela Januszewska |b|1867| Ali Hassan Salameh |d|1979| Ngô Quang Trưởng |d|2007

January 22: Day of Unity of Ukraine (1919)


 * 565 – Eutychius, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, was arrested after he refused Byzantine emperor Justinian I's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of non-Chalcedonian Christians.
 * 1273 – Muhammad II became Sultan of Granada after his father's death in a riding accident.
 * 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald took office as the first prime minister of the United Kingdom from the Labour Party.
 * 1963 – France and West Germany signed the Élysée Treaty, establishing a new foundation for relations that ended centuries of rivalry.
 * 1984 – During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh (pictured), the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984".