Today is Saturday, January 22, the 22nd day of 2011. There are 343 days left in the year.
1771 _ Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain
1859 _ Brahms' first piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover
1905 _ ``Bloody Sunday"; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1938 _ ``Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners NH, performed publicly for first time (New Jersey)
1939 _ Uranium atom first split, Columbia University
1946 _ U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
1951 _ Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter
1964 _ World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin
1973 _ Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions
1997 _ Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to earth, successful