On Jan. 22, 1901, Britain’s Queen Victoria died on the Isle of Wight at 82.
In 1917 President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for “peace without victory.” (By April, America also was at war.)
In 1938 Thornton Wilder’s play “Our Town” made its debut, in Princeton, N.J.
In 1944 Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.
In 1968 “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premiered on NBC.
In 1973 the Supreme Court handed down its Roe vs. Wade decision, which legalized abortion nationwide. Also, former President Lyndon Johnson died in Texas at 64.
In 1998 Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in Sacramento to being the Unabomber in return for a life sentence in prison.
In 2000 food writer Craig Claiborne died in New York at 79.
In 2001 President Bush signed a memorandum reinstating abortion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid.
