WHAT HAPPENED ON 22. JANUARY
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World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. (22. January 1917)

Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. (22. January 1919)

Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (22. January 1924)

Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. (22. January 1927)

World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass. (22. January 1941)

World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy. (22. January 1944)

In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president and Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister. (22. January 1946)

Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. (22. January 1946)

KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California. (22. January 1947)

Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula. (22. January 1957)

The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs. (22. January 1957)

Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed. (22. January 1959)

The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership. (22. January 1962)

The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. (22. January 1963)

Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space. (22. January 1968)

Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation. (22. January 1968)

A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. (22. January 1969)

The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. (22. January 1970)

The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued. (22. January 1971)

The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states. (22. January 1973)