In the present day is Wednesday, Jan. 22, the twenty second day of 2025. There are 343 days left within the 12 months.
In the present day in historical past:
On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court docket, in its Roe v. Wade resolution, declared a nationwide constitutional proper to abortion. (The court docket would overrule Roe v. Wade in 2022, within the resolution Dobbs v. Jackson Girls’s Well being Group.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1901, Britain’s Queen Victoria died at age 81 after a reign of greater than 63 years; she was succeeded by her eldest son, Edward VII.
In 1944, throughout World Struggle II, Allied forces started touchdown at Anzio, Italy.
In 1947, America’s first commercially licensed tv station west of the Mississippi, KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, made its official debut.
In 1953, the Arthur Miller drama “The Crucible” opened on the Martin Beck Theatre in New York.
In 1973, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at his Texas ranch on the age of 64.
In 1998, Theodore Kaczynski pleaded responsible in Sacramento, California, to being the Unabomber liable for three deaths and 23 accidents in return for a sentence of life in jail with out parole.
In 2006, Kobe Bryant scored 81 factors, the second-highest single-game level whole in NBA historical past, within the Los Angeles Lakers’ 122-104 victory over the Toronto Raptors.
In 2008, actor Heath Ledger, age 28, was discovered lifeless of an unintentional prescription overdose in a New York Metropolis condominium.
In the present day’s birthdays:
- Celeb chef Graham Kerr (TV: “The Galloping Gourmand”) is 91.
- Singer Steve Perry is 76.
- Movie director Jim Jarmusch is 72.
- Actor Linda Blair is 66.
- Actor Diane Lane is 60.
- DJ Jazzy Jeff is 60.
- Celeb chef Man Fieri is 57.
- Actor Olivia d’Abo is 56.
- Actor Gabriel Macht is 53.
- Actor Balthazar Getty is 50.
- Rapper Logic is 35.
- Actor Sami Gayle is 29.
- WNBA level guard Caitlin Clark is 23.