January 22nd is the anniversary of, among other events, the Swiss Guards assuming their duties at the Vatican for the first time, Spain’s transfer of the Falkland Islands to Britain, the expulsion of the Jews from Warsaw, the Anglo-Zulu Battles of Isandhlwana and Rourke’s Drift, “Bloody Sunday” in St. Petersburg, the departure of Task Force 6814 (the Americal Div) sails from New York for the South Pacific, the Allied landings at Anzio, Fidel Castro’s ejection from a US minor league ball game for cheating, and the arrest of George Mad Bomber Metesky arrested in NYC Births on this date include those of poet and Hellenophile George Gordon Byron, Nat Turner, of the Great Southampton Slave Rebellion, Russian mystic monk Grigori Rasputin, and heroic fantasy author Robert E. Howard Deaths on this date include those of Shah Jahan of the Mughal Empire, Declaration of Independence Signer Lewis Morris, “Red” Union Brig. Gen. August von Willich, frustrated peacemaker Pope Benedict XV, sometime President Lyndon B Johnson, and historian Mark R. Peattie For additional events on this date see strategypage/today-in-military-history.aspx
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:15:28 +0000
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