History Quiz / On this Day... 01/22

Claudius Smith, “Cowboy of the Ramapos,” hangs

English poet Lord Byron is born

Under the leadership of British statesman Edward G. Wakefield, the first British colonists to New Zealand arrive at Port Nicholson on Auckland Island.

Cheyenne chief Dull Knife (also anglicized as 'Morning Star') and his people are defeated by Anglo-Americans soldiers. In doing so, the so-called Dull Knife Outbreak came to an end.

Queen Victoria dies

Well on its way to losing a war against Japan in the Far East, czarist Russia is wracked with internal discontent that finally explodes into violence in St. Petersburg in what will become known as the Bloody Sunday Massacre.

Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s legal right to an abortion, is decided

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov arrested in Moscow

Final portrait of John and Yoko appears on the cover of “Rolling Stone”

Apple’s iconic commercial airs during Super Bowl XVIII

Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty to bombings

Hispanics are officially declared the largest minority group in the U.S.

Heath Ledger dies of accidental prescription drug overdose

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