Today is Friday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2010. There are 343 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Jan. 22, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” (By April, America also was at war.)
ON THIS DATE
In 1498, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, explorer Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.
In 1561, English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon was born in London.
In 1901, Britain’s Queen Victoria died at age 81.
In 1905 (New Style calendar), thousands of demonstrating Russian workers were fired on by Imperial army troops in St. Petersburg on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
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