Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 22
- 1879 - Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo (pictured) routed British forces at the Battle of Isandlwana.
- 1901 - After holding the title Prince of Wales for six decades, King Edward VII became the second oldest man to ascend to the throne in British history.
- 1905 - Russian Revolution: Peaceful demonstrators led by Father Gapon were massacred outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on Bloody Sunday.
- 1973 - Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark legal decision on abortion.
- 1980 - Andrei Sakharov, a key architect of the Soviet hydrogen bomb and winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, was arrested in Moscow and exiled to Gorki.
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