Thursday, January 22, 2026

Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.

Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

After being convicted of receiving bribes, Pennsylvania state treasurer R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself in front of television cameras during a press conference.

During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984".

After surrounding Mutukula the previous day, Tanzanian forces attacked the town and caused Ugandan forces to flee.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.

The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.

Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (pictured) survived what was seen as an assassination attempt, an incident that was not revealed to the public until after the fall of the Soviet Union.