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On This Day · The 22nd day of the year

January 22

January 22's record stretches 320 years, from 1689 to 2009. Its center of gravity is the 20th century, and politics and nation-building recur.

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Aquarius is the sign for January 22 — read more on the Aquarius page, or see January's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on January 22?

January 22 is the 22nd day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1689 and 2009. Famous people born on January 22 include U Thant, Galina Zybina and Lord Byron.

Released on January 22

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game Arknights: Endfield
  • Movie Send Help
  • TV Finding Her Edge
  • TV The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin

2025

  • Game Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
  • Game Mika and the Witch's Mountain

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1689

    Convention Parliament (1689)

  2. 1879

    Anglo-Zulu War

  3. 1906

    SS Valencia

  4. 1924

    Ramsay MacDonald

  5. 1941

    World War II

  6. 1946

    Iran

  7. 1970

    Boeing 747

  8. 1973

    Supreme Court of the United States

  9. 2006

    Evo Morales

  10. 2009

    Barack Obama

Famous birthday twins

Born on January 22

U Thant

b. 1909

Galina Zybina

b. 1931

Lord Byron

b. 1788

August Strindberg

b. 1849

Sergei Eisenstein

b. 1898

William Kidd

b. 1645

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

b. 1729

Francis Bacon

b. 1561

Deaths

  • 1982Eduardo Frei Montalva
  • 1973Lyndon B. Johnson
  • 1959Mike Hawthorn
  • 1957Ralph Barton Perry
  • 1922Pope Benedict XV
  • 1901Queen Victoria

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Anastasius of Persia
  • —Christian feast day: Gaudentius of Novara
  • —Christian feast day: László Batthyány-Strattmann
  • —Christian feast day: Laura Vicuna
  • —Christian feast day: Vincent Pallotti
  • —Christian feast day: Vincent of Saragossa
  • —Christian feast day: Vincent, Orontius, and Victor
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed William Joseph Chaminade

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