January 22 is:
National Blonde Brownie Day
Birthday of Francis Bacon (January 22, 1561), English essayist, philosopher who developed the inductive method of inquiry. Called the creator of empiricism, his works established what is called the “scientific method”.
1666 – Shah Jahan, a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, died at the age of 74. He was the Mongul emperor of India and he built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Publication of Federalist Paper #42: The Powers Conferred by the Constitution Further Considered written by James Madison in 1788. Madison examines non-military congressional powers including interstate commerce. In Federalist Paper #42 slavery is mentioned the first time. In order to get the Constitution ratified, the states compromised: the importation of slaves would be allowed for 20 years (ending 1808) and a tax of $10 per head would be imposed on importers. This article considers congressional authority to make treaties, establish a post office, coin money, make standards for weights and measures. Paper #42 is the second-most cited Federalist Paper because of its discussion on interstate commerce. Madison limits his opinions to commerce in which foreign goods are involved…not to all commerce between states.
Birthday of Lord George Gordon Byron(January 22, 1788), English Romantic poet, best known for “She Walks in Beauty”
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Queen Victoria died January 22, 1901, at age 81 after 63 years on the British throne.
1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States called for “peace without victory” in Europe.
Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” premiered in Princeton, N.J. in 1938.
The Organization of American States suspended Cuba’s membership on January 22, 1962.
1966 – The Beach Boys recorded “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”
Roe v Wade (1973) The Supreme Court of the United States delivered its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
January 22, 1973 Death of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States. He became president upon the death of John F. Kennedy. Johnson died at his ranch in Johnson City, Texas, at age 64 from a massive heart attack.
1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous “1984” television commercial.
K-mart Corp became the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 22, 2002.
2003 The United Nations reported that there was no link between al Queda and Iraq.
Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated on January 20, 1981. Iran released 52 American hostages after holding them hostage for 444 days. The hostages were placed on a plane in Tehran as Reagan delivered his inaugural address.
1862 John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, died in Richmond, Va., at age 71. Tyler was the first Vice-President to ascend to the Presidency upon the death of the President, William Henry Harrison. He fathered more children than any other president – eight with his first wife and seven with his second wife. When Civil War broke out, Tyler sided with the Confederacy and his death was not officially recognized in Washington, D.C. His coffin was draped with the Confederate Flag.
Winnie the Pooh Day -The Birthday of Winnie’s author A.A. Milne (1882)
Birthday of Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892), American comic movie actor, one-half of the famed Laurel & Hardy team. He was born Norvell Hardy and added his father’s name “Oliver” to his own prior to 1910.
Birthday of Cary Grant, (January 18, 1904), actor, born Archibald Leach in Bristol, England.
Birthday of Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky) (January 18, 1913), American actor/comedian/dancer whose performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes and rapid-fire nonsense songs. See 
Birthday of Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706), Founding Father of America. He was a leading printer, statesman, inventor and diplomat. Author of “Poor Richard’s Almanac“. Inventor of the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, and a carriage odometer. 
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1929 – Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by Elzie Segar, first appeared in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
Birthday of Michelle Obama (January 17, 1964), wife of Barack Obama; First Lady 2009-Jan 20, 2017.
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1856 – Dr. John A. Veatch discovers borax at Tuscan Springs, California. Wagons pulled by teams of twenty mules each give rise to the brand “Twenty Mule Team Borax.”
1889 – Herman Hollerith was issued US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’ — his punched card calculator. Remember punch cards? An extra hole or two from a hand-held clandestine punch could gum things up… “Keypunch operator” was one of the careers for which one could train and was my first job in 1960.
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On January 6, 1919, the 26th president of the United States, 
In 1933 Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, died in Northampton, Mass., at age 60 from coronary thrombosis. Coolidge became president upon the death of Warren Harding.
1945 – Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Brothers cartoon “Odor-able Kitty“.
On December 31, 1687 the first organized group of Huguenots set sail from the Netherlands to the Dutch East India Company post at the Cape of Good Hope. The largest portion of the Huguenots to settle in the Cape arrived between 1688 and 1689 in seven ships as part of the organized migration, but quite a few arrived as late as 1700; thereafter, the numbers declined and only small groups arrived at a time. Many of these settlers were settled in an area that was later called Franschhoek (Dutch for French Corner), in the present-day Western Cape province of South Africa. A large monument to commemorate the arrival of the Huguenots in South Africa was inaugurated on 7 April 1948 at Franschhoek, where the Huguenot Memorial Museum was erected in 1957.
Thomas Edison demonstrated incandescent lighting to the public for the first time in 1879. (2012 – Incandescent bulbs are essentially outlawed.)
The farthing coin ceased to be legal tender in the United Kingdom in 1960. The farthing represented 1/4 of a penny (or a “fourthing”).