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Today is Tuesday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2019. There are 343 days left in the year.
1575 — Queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly
1673 — Postal service between New York and Boston inaugurated
1690 — Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French
1771 — Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain
1813— Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada
1837 — Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
1859 — Brahms’ first piano concerto in D minor premieres in Hanover
1925 — Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu
1934 — Shostakovich’s opera "Lady MacBeth" premieres in Leningrad
