Daily Calendar for Thursday, January 22, 2026

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Queen Victoria (Great Britain, died after the longest reign of any British monarch and was succeeded by her son, Edward VII) – 1901
Lyndon B. Johnson (36th U.S. president) – 1973
Telly Savalas (actor) – 1994
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (matriarch of the Kennedy family) – 1995
Stanley Marcus (chairman of department store Neiman-Marcus) – 2002
Jack Shea (gold medal-winning speedskater and patriarch of family of Olympic finalists, including grandson who won gold medal at 2002 games) – 2002
Ann Miller (dancer & actress) – 2004
Patsy Rowlands (actress) – 2005
Heath Ledger (actor) – 2008
Jean Simmons (English actress who later also became an American citizen) – 2010
James Mitchell (actor & dancer) – 2010
Hank Aaron (baseball player) – 2021

The Key West Extension of the Florida Coast Railway is completed, linking Miami to Key West – 1912
Uranium atom was first split by cyclotron – 1939
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In debuted on TV – 1968
George Foreman knocks out Joe Frazier for world heavyweight boxing title – 1973
Macintosh computer commercial ran during Super Bowl XVIII – 1984
Politician R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide on national television – 1987
Roberta Bondar became first Canadian woman in space – 1992
Madeleine Albright became the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the U.S. Senate – 1997
While walking in suburban Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lottie Williams became the first person known to have been struck by falling manmade space debris when a piece of fiberglass from a disintegrating rocket hit her shoulder. She was not injured. – 1997

In Spearfish, South Dakota, the temperature rose from -4F to 45F in 2 minutes, due to chinook – 1943
Meteorologists said that 75 percent of North America was covered by snow – 1982
Mountain Lake, Virginia, recorded a low temperature of -30 degrees F – 1985
Snow fell in Jordan – 2008