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Events

• 1506 (520 years ago) The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
• 1863 (163 years ago) The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
• 1946 (80 years ago) In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.
• 1957 (69 years ago) Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
• 1973 (53 years ago) A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
• 1987 (39 years ago) Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• 1995 (31 years ago) Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid suicide bombing: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israeli soldiers.
• 2009 (17 years ago) U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; congressional opposition will prevent it being implemented.

Births

• 1561 (465 years ago) Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (died 1626)
• 1729 (297 years ago) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and author (died 1781)
• 1788 (238 years ago) Lord Byron, English poet and playwright (died 1824)
• 1849 (177 years ago) August Strindberg, Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1912)
• 1891 (135 years ago) Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician (died 1937)
• 1898 (128 years ago) Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (died 1948)
• 1908 (118 years ago) Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
• 1909 (117 years ago) U Thant, Burmese educator and diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General (died 1974)

Deaths

• 1666 (360 years ago) Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (born 1592)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom,
• 1922 (104 years ago) Pope Benedict XV,
• 1922 (104 years ago) Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1837)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (born 1908)
• 1993 (33 years ago) Kōbō Abe, Japanese playwright and photographer (born 1924)
• 2008 (18 years ago) Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director (born 1979)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi and fantasy novelist (born 1929)

All 371 events, births and deaths of January 22