January 22 is the 22nd day of the year.
There are 344 days remaining until the end of 2016
The sun will rise at 7:20 am
and sunset will be at 5:23 pm.
Today we will have 10 hours and 3 minutes of sun.
The moon set at 6:00 am in the northwest.
Eventually, the moon will rise again in the northeast at 4:30 pm.
The lunar phase is a Waxing Gibbous.
It's Almost a full moon, 97% illumination.
Tomorrow is the full moon.
the first low tide was at 3:33
am and the next low tide will be at 4:32 pm.
The first high tide will be at 9:46 am
and the next high tide at 11:39 pm.
January 22, 2016 – NATIONAL BLONDE BROWNIE DAY
Day of Unity of Ukraine (Ukraine)
Grandfather's Day (Poland)
If today is your birthday, Happy Birthday! You celebrate with...
1552 – Walter Raleigh, English poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer (d. 1618)
1561 – Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (d. 1626)
1788 – Lord Byron, English poet and playwright (d. 1824)
1849 – August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (d. 1912)
1875 – D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1948)
1891 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician (d. 1937)
1893 – Conrad Veidt, German-American actor, director, and producer (Major Strasser in Casablanca) (d. 1943)
1897 – Blind Willie Johnson, American singer and guitarist (d. 1945)
1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (d. 1948)
1904 – George Balanchine, Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet (d. 1983)
1909 – Ann Southern, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
1909 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1974)
1911 – Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
1931 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964)
1932 – Piper Laurie, American actress
1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director (d. 1993)
1934 – Graham Kerr, English chef and author
1937 – Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan politician
1946 – Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and manager (d. 2010)
1953 – Jim Jarmusch, American director and screenwriter
On This Day in History…
1824 – The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana: Zulu troops decisively defeat British troops.
1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1905 – Russian troops opened fired on marching workers in St. Petersburg, killing more than 100 in what became known as "Bloody Sunday." beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1938Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premiered in Princeton, N.J.
1944Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy, during World War II.
1953The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
1957 – The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1968"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC.
1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy
International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1973 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
1980 - One of the Soviet Union's most outspoken critics, nuclear physicist Dr Andrei Sakharov, is sent into internal exile for his outspoken views.
1981: Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch bids to take over Times of London,
But the deal will only go ahead if Mr Murdoch can reach a deal with the print unions over the introduction of new technology within the next three weeks.
1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its
famous "1984" television commercial.
1992 – Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1997The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation's first female secretary of state.
1998Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2006 – Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
2006 – Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scores 81 points in an NBA game versus the Toronto Raptors, the second highest total in NBA history.
2009President Barack Obama ordered the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba closed within a year and banned harsh interrogation of terror suspects. (The prison remains open.)
2010Conan O'Brien ended his brief tenure as host of "The Tonight Show" after accepting a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months.
