January 22: Reunion Day in Ukraine (1919)
SS Valencia
- 1517 – Ottoman–Mamluk War: Ottoman forces defeated the Egyptian Mamluk army in the Battle of Ridaniya and brought the severed head of the last Mamluk sultan Tuman bay II into Cairo.
- 1689 – The Convention Parliament convened to justify the overthrow of James II, the last Roman Catholic King of England, who had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688.
- 1906 – The SS Valencia (pictured) was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific.
- 1957 – New York City police arrested George Metesky, better known as the "Mad Bomber", for planting over 30 bombs over 16 years throughout the city.
- 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.
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