What happend on 22nd January

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1941

World War II: The United Kingdom captures Tobruk from Nazi forces.

1931

Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.

1924

Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.

1917

World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.

1905

'Bloody Sunday' in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.

1901

Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.

1899

Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.

1889

Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.

1879

Anglo-Zulu War: Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.

1863

The January Uprising broke out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement was to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.