Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 22
This is a list of selected January 22 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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- 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo fought to a decisive victory at the Battle of Isandlwana, but elsewhere the British were able to repel a Zulu attack in the Battle of Rorke's Drift.
- 1906 – The SS Valencia wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
- 1969 – Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev survived an assassination attempt, an incident that was not revealed to the public until after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, striking down laws restricting abortion during the first six to seven months of pregnancy.
- 2006 – Aymaran Evo Morales (pictured) was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, the country's first democratically elected, fully Amerindian leader.