Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 22

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 * 565 – Eutychius, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, was arrested after he refused Byzantine emperor Justinian I's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of non-Chalcedonian Christians.
 * 1689 – The Convention Parliament met to decide the fate of the throne after James II, the last Catholic monarch of England, fled to France following the Glorious Revolution.
 * 1906 – SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
 * 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Buna–Gona on New Guinea ended with an Allied victory after two months of fighting in which the Japanese fought with a resolve and tenacity not previously encountered.
 * 1957 – New York City police arrested George Metesky, better known as the "Mad Bomber", for planting over 30 bombs over 16 years throughout the city.
 * 1963 – France and West Germany signed the Élysée Treaty, establishing a new foundation for relations that ended centuries of rivalry.
 * 1969 – Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev survived what was seen as an assassination attempt, an incident that was not revealed to the public until after the fall of the Soviet Union.
 * 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
 * 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
 * 1984 – During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984".
 * 1987 – After being convicted of receiving bribes, Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself in front of television cameras during a press conference.
 * 2012 – Croatia held a referendum, in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.
 * Born/died: | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset |d|1552| Wang Zhi |d|1560|Karl Ernst Claus |b|1796| William E. Holmes |b|1856 Noah Phelps |b|1740| Gisela Januszewska |b|1867| Frigyes Riesz |b|1880| Willa Brown |b|1906 | Michael Hutchence |b|1960| Ali Hassan Salameh |d|1979| S. Vithiananthan |d|1989| Ngô Quang Trưởng |d|2007

January 22: Day of Unity of Ukraine (1919)


 * 1273 – Muhammad II became Sultan of Granada after his father's death in a riding accident.
 * 1924 – Ramsay MacDonald took office as the first prime minister of the United Kingdom from the Labour Party.
 * 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Buna–Gona on New Guinea ended with an Allied victory after two months of difficult fighting against well-prepared Japanese defence.
 * 1968 – Apollo 5 (pictured), the first flight of NASA's Lunar Module, lifted off from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.
 * 1979 – Uganda–Tanzania War: After surrounding Mutukula the previous day, Tanzanian forces attacked the town in the Battle of Mutukula and caused Ugandan forces to flee.