January 22

On This Day In History
	1973: Roe v. Wade ruling On this day in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of its most momentous decisions, ruling in Roe v. Wade that a Texas statute criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy.
U.S. Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., designed by Cass Gilbert and completed in 1935.
Biography Of The Day
	Lord Byron Born this day in 1788, British Romantic poet and satirist Lord Byron captured the imagination of Europe with his personality and work, notably Don Juan and the renowned autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
George Gordon, Lord Byron, circa 1820.
More Events On This Day In History
	1998 One of the most notorious domestic terrorists in U.S. history, Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who killed three people and injured 22 in 16 attacks between 1979 and 1995, was sentenced to four terms of life in prison without parole.
1943	1943 All Japanese resistance in Papua, on the island of New Guinea, site of an important Allied base at Port Moresby in World War II, ceased.
1905	1905 On what was later known as Bloody Sunday, Russian workers marching on St. Petersburg were fired on by Russian troops.
	1904 Influential ballet choreographer George Balanchine was born in St. Petersburg.
	1821 Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered Peter I Island, the first sighting of land within the Antarctic Circle.