January 22
Today in America's Present Past
1599 | Indian Wars: Acoma Massacre.
1673 | Postal Service between New York City and Boston, Massachusetts starts.
1690 | Indian Wars: The Confederation of Iroquois tribes renewed its alliance with England against France.
1748 | Composer Lewis Edson was born.
1798 | Founding: Lewis Morris died.
1813 | War of 1812: Americans capture the Frenchtown in the Michigan Territory to be massacred by the British the following day.
1857 | National Association of Baseball Players formed in New York City.
1863 | Civil War: Union forces commence General Burnside’s “Mud March.”
1875 | Poet Charles Sprague died.
1881 | A 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk erected in Central Park, New York City, called “Cleopatra’s Needle.”
1892 | SCOTUS: Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley died.
1889 | Columbia Records formed in Washington, D.C.
1895 | The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1903 | POTUS: The Hay-Herran Treaty regarding the Panama Canal, signed in Washington, D.C.
1906 | Author Robert E. Howard was born.
1922 | Poet Howard Moss was born.
1931 | Musician Sam Cooke was born.
1932 | POTUS: Republican President Hoover signed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act.
1944 | WWII: Allied forces land at Anzio on the Italian mainland.
1945 | WWII: America begins bombing Okinawa.
1953 | Playwright Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” debuts.
1957 | George Metesky, the “Mad Bomber,” was arrested.
1973 | POTUS: President Lyndon B. Johnson died.
1973 | SCOTUS: The Court decided Roe v. Wade.
1973 | Joe Frazier was knocked out in the second round by George Forman.
1973 | Vietnam War: U.S. and both North and South Vietnam sign new boundary accords.
1984 | Apple’s legendary commercial directed by Ridley Scott echoes themes from George Orwell’s debuts during the Super Bowl.
1991 | Gulf War: Iraqi forces destroy Kuwaiti oil fields.
1994 | Actor Aristotelis “Telly” Savalas died.
1995 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died.
2002 | Kmart Corporation becomes the largest U.S. retailer to file bankruptcy.
2005 | POTUS: President Donald Trump weds Melania Knauss.
2008 | Actor Heath Ledger died.
2018 | U.S.-owned Netflix has become the world’s largest digital media company.
2021 | Baseballer Hank Aaron died.