What are the important events that happened on January 22? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

January 22: Facts & Myths About This Day

January 22 is the 22^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 9, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,958,400 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icosidigon’ day.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 7 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,415 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

January 22 Historical Events

• 1877 –
  Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices.
• 1924 –
  Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1941 –
  World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
• 1947 –
  KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
• 1971 –
  The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
• 1984 –
  The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984” television commercial.
• 1987 –
  Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
• 1991 –
  Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
• 1995 –
  Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
• 2042 –
  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.

Who were born on January 22?

• 1799 –
  Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)
• 1820 –
  Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
• 1891 –
  Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, and political theorist (d. 1937)
• 1909 –
  Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
• 1948 –
  Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1949 –
  Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
• 1963 –
  Jeff Treadway, American baseball player
• 1968 –
  Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
• 1969 –
  Olivia d'Abo, English actress
• 1977 –
  Aaron Rakers, American baseball player

Who died on January 22?

• 1901 –
  Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1929 –
  R.C. Lehmann, English writer (b. 1856)
• 1954 –
  Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (b. 1872)
• 1978 –
  Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1980 –
  Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (b. 1888)
• 1981 –
  Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
• 1991 –
  Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)
• 1994 –
  Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2004 –
  Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
• 2009 –
  Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)