Today, January 22<\/p>\n
1879 \u2013 Near Isandlwana hill in Zululand, South Africa, greatly outnumbered British Army, colonial and native troops are defeated in detail and slaughtered by Zulu Impi forces of King Cetshwayo kaMpande .
\nLater in the day at Rorke’s Drift Station, Natal colony, around 10 miles from Isandlwana, greatly outnumbered British Army and colonial troops, using different defensive tactics, repeatedly repel and defeat a force of Zulus who had been unused reserves at the previous battle.<\/p>\n
1901 \u2013 Queen Victoria – at the time the then longest ruling British monarch – dies, age 81, at her estate on the Isle of Wight. Her eldest son is proclaimed King Edward VII.<\/p>\n
1906 \u2013 The Red D Line’s SS Valencia, <\/em>sailing on the San Francisco\u2013Seattle route, misses the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, strikes a reef off Cape Beale of Vancouver Island, British Columbia and runs aground resulting in the deaths of 136 of the 173 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 President Woodrow Wilson of the still neutral United States calls for “peace without victory” in Europe, during World War I.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 Allied forces commence Operation Shingle<\/em>, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy during World War II.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 President Truman establishes the National Intelligence Authority whose operational division, the Central Intelligence Group, is the direct forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Pan American Airways begins intercontinental air service between New York City and London, flying the Boeing 747.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 The same day that former President Lyndon Johnson dies, age 64, at his home in Johnson City Texas, the Supreme Court delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade<\/em> and Doe v. Bolton<\/em>, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states for the next 49 years.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 At a live news conference the day before he was to be sentenced for being convicted of bribery as the Treasurer of Pennsylvania, R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide. As he died while still officially in office, per Pennsylvania law, his wife receives his full survivor pension benefits of over $1.28 million.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 The Apple Macintosh computer is introduced<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 President Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which is overridden by Congress.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 Celebrating the 90th anniversary year of her debut, Minerva ‘Minnie’ Mouse receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, January 22 1879 \u2013 Near Isandlwana hill in Zululand, South Africa, greatly outnumbered British Army, colonial and native troops are defeated in detail and slaughtered by Zulu Impi forces of King Cetshwayo kaMpande . Later in the day at Rorke’s Drift Station, Natal colony, around 10 miles from Isandlwana, greatly outnumbered British Army and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64090"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89483,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64090\/revisions\/89483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}