WEDNESDAY, Jan. 22, 2025

1816-Lord Byron completes poems "Parisina" and "Siege of Corinth"

1831-Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam at Christ's College, Cambridge, coming tenth out of 171 candidates

1905-In St. Petersburg, Russia, a large demonstration of workers led by Father Gapon, march to the Winter Palace with a petition to the Tsar; troops fire on protesters in what becomes known as "Bloody Sunday"

1918-Ukraine proclaimed a free republic

1945-Heavy U.S. air raid on Okinawa

1963-Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer

1973-In a landmark decision the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes most abortions (Roe v. Wade), authoring the majority opinion Harry Blackmun states that the criminalization of abortion does not have "roots in the English common-law tradition"

1980-Russian dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky

1990-President Mikhail Gorbachev sends Red Troops into the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan