📜 This Day in History

January 22

• 565Eutychius of Constantinople was arrested after he refused Byzantine emperor Justinian I's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of non-Chalcedonian Christians.
• 1879Anglo-Zulu War: The Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Isandlwana.
• 1943World War II: The Battle of Buna–Gona on New Guinea ended with an Allied victory after two months of fighting in which the Japanese fought with a resolve and tenacity not previously encountered.
• 1970The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
• 1984During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984".
• 2012Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.

Born on this day

• 1561Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (died 1626)
• 1788Lord Byron, English poet and playwright (died 1824)
• 1891Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician (died 1937)
• 1898Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (died 1948)