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Jan 16, 2009
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Thursday, January 22, 2009

This will be 22nd day of the year and 343 days will remain in the year.


January 22 Birthdays

George Balanchine
1904–83, American choreographer and ballet dancer,

Francis Bacon
philosopher (1561)

 John Winthrop
colonial governor (1588)

 Andre Marie Ampere
physicist (1775)

 George Gordon Noel Byron
poet (1788)

 August Strindberg
dramatist (1849)

 Beatrice Potter Webb
socialist economist (1858)

 D.W. Griffith
filmmaker (1880)

 U Thant
U.N. statesman (1909)

 Bill Bixby
actor, TV director (1934)

 Diane Lane
actor (1965)

January 22 in History

1901

Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens).

1905

500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg.

1938

Thornton Wilder's play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J.

1973

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at age 64.

1973

The Supreme Court legalized some abortions in Roe v. Wade.

1997

The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.

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