1575
Jan 22, English queen ElizabethI granted Thomas Tallis and William Byrd a music press monopoly.


1901
Jan 22, Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 82. She was the monarch of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, and died after presiding over her vast empire for nearly 64 years--the longest reign in British history. Born in 1819, the only child of George III's fourth son, Victoria became queen in 1837. In 1840, she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Although the match was a political one, the two were devoted to each other, having nine children before Albert's death in 1861. Through dynastic marriages, Victoria's descendants are connected to almost all 20th-century Europe's royal houses. During Victoria's long reign the monarchy lost much of its political power to Parliament, but she was the beloved symbol of the Victorian Era--a golden age of British history. In 2000 Christopher Hibbert authored “Queen Victoria: A Personal History."


1908
Jan 22, Katie Mulcahey became the first woman to run afoul of New York City's just-passed ban on females smoking in public. Declaring, "No man shall dictate to me," Mulcahey served a night in jail after being unable to pay a $5 fine.



1909
Jan 22, Hariette Lake (aka Ann Sothern, d. 2001), film and TV actress, was born in Valley City, North Dakota.



1986
Jan 22, The body of Yvonne Coleman (15) was found in a park in Inglewood, California. In 2008 DNA evidence linked Michael Hughes (51), already in jail for 4 other murders (1992-1993), to her murder and 3 others. In 2011 Hughes, a former security guard dubbed the “Southside Slayer," was found guilty of strangling three more victims in a series of attacks that stretched over a decade.





2005
Jan 22, Rose Mary Woods (87), President Nixon's former secretary, died in Ohio.


2005
Jan 22, In India actress ParveenBabi, who played the siren in dozens of Bollywood films, was found dead at her suburban Bombay apartment. Babi, famed for her unconventional western looks, starred in more than 50 Hindi films mostly in the 1970s and early 1980s.


2005
Jan 22, Iran's state-run television reported that the hard-line constitutional watchdog has decided that women can run for president in June elections.


2006
Jan 22, In Massachusetts the bodies of Rachel (27) and 9-month-old daughter Lillian Entwistle were found in their home in Hopkinton. Rachel was shot in the head and the young baby in the body. They had been killed as much as 3 days earlier. On Jan 27 Neil Entwistle (27) was seen leaving his parents’ home in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, accompanied by two plain-clothes detectives. He was soon extradited back to Massachusetts. In 2008 Entwistle was convicted of murder.


2014
Jan 22, In Indonesia Andrea Waldeck, British woman, was jailed for 14 years but escaped the death penalty after admitting that she smuggled crystal methamphetamine into Indonesia from China. she had confessed to taking the drugs through the airport in Surabaya.

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