Today In History

Sat., Jan. 22, 2000

1901: Britain’s Queen Victoria died at age 82.

1917: President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” By April, however, America also was at war.

1922: Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.

1938: Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” was performed publicly for the first time, in Princeton, N.J.

1944: During World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.

1953: The Arthur Miller drama “The Crucible” opened on Broadway.

1968: The comedy show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC-TV.

1970: The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 began in New York and ended some 6 hours later in London.

1973: The Supreme Court handed down its “Roe v. Wade” decision, which legalized abortion using a trimester approach.

1973: Former President Johnson died at age 64.

1997: The Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the nation’s first woman secretary of state.

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