January 22^nd in history

Encyclopædia Britannica presents people and events from this day in history:

Roe v. Wade ruling: 22 January 1973 - This Day in History

On this day in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most momentous decisions, ruling in Roe v. Wade that a Texas statute criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy.

More Events on this day:

1943: All Japanese resistance in Papua, on the island of New Guinea, site of an important Allied base at Port Moresby in World War II, ceased.

1905: On what was later known as Bloody Sunday, Russian workers marching on St. Petersburg were fired on by Russian troops.

1904: Influential ballet choreographer George Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg.

1821: Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered Peter I Island, the first sighting of land within the Antarctic Circle.

 

Lord Byron: Biography of the Day

Lord Byron

Born this day in 1788, British Romantic poet and satirist Lord Byron captured the imagination of Europe with his personality and work, notably Don Juan and the renowned autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

 

RoeWade ruling: 22 January 1973 - This Day in History

On this day in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most momentous decisions, ruling in RoeWade that a Texas statute criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy.

More Events on this day:

1943: All Japanese resistance in Papua, on the island of New Guinea, site of an important Allied base at Port Moresby in World War II, ceased.

1905: On what was later known as Bloody Sunday, Russian workers marching on St. Petersburg were fired on by Russian troops.

1904: Influential ballet choreographer George Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg.

1821: Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered Peter I Island, the first sighting of land within the Antarctic Circle.