Today is Friday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2009. There are 343 days left in the year.
1517 _ Turks conquer Cairo
1859 _ Brahms' first piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1939 _ Uranium atom first split, Columbia University
1951 _ Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1953 _ Arthur Miller's ``Crucible" premieres in New York City
1959 _ USAF concludes less than 1 percent of UFOs are unknown objects
1964 _ World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1970 _ First commercial Boeing 747 flight (Pan Am), New York to London in six hours
1973 _ George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in second round for heavyweight boxing title
1973 _ Roe vs. Wade _ U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions