On this day — January 22

Uttar Pradesh after 500 years of dispute.

congressional opposition will prevent it being implemented.

Iraq.

becoming the country's first indigenous president.

space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.

Beit Lid suicide bombing: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israeli soldiers.

Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.

Manila, killing 13.

Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states. This decision is subsequently overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022.

Nigeria, killing 176.

Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante Sr..

one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.

the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.