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On this day: January 22

POSTED: 03:48 AM PST Jan 21, 2013 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 21, 2013

The Supreme Court decides Roe v. Wade, the Boeing 747 flies for the first time, Apple introduces its Macintosh computer in a Super Bowl ad, and the Unabomber pleads guilty, all on this day.

OTD January 22 - R Budd Dwyer — 30 / 40

1987: Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer, set to be sentenced on bribery charges the following day, shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

OTD January 22 - Francis Bacon

OTD January 22 - DW Griffith

OTD January 22 - Columbia Phonograph

OTD January 22 - Queen Victoria

OTD January 22 - Bloody Sunday

OTD January 22 - Pope Benedict XV

OTD January 22 - Sam Cooke

OTD January 22 - Piper Laurie

OTD January 22 - Bill Bixby

OTD January 22 - Our Town

OTD January 22 - John Hurt

OTD January 22 - George Seifert

OTD January 22 - CIA

OTD January 22 - Steve Perry

OTD January 22 - The Crucible

OTD January 22 - Linda Blair

OTD January 22 - Michael Hutchence

OTD January 22 - DJ Jazzy Jeff

OTD January 22 - Diane Lane

OTD January 22 - Apollo 5

OTD January 22 - Laugh-In

OTD January 22 - Leonid Brezhnev

OTD January 21 - Boeing 747

OTD January 22 - Harry Frank Guggenheim

OTD January 22 - Lyndon B Johnson

OTD January 22 - Roe v Wade

OTD January 22 - Frazier-Foreman

OTD January 22 - Bjorn Borg

OTD January 22 - 1984 ad

OTD January 22 - R Budd Dwyer

OTD January 22 - Telly Savalas

OTD January 22 - Rose Kennedy

OTD January 22 - Madeleine Albright

OTD January 22 - Ted Kaczynski

OTD January 22 - Rae Carruth

OTD January 22 - Kmart

OTD January 22 - Rose Mary Woods

OTD January 22 - Heath Ledger

OTD January 22 - Conan O'Brien

OTD January 22 - Joe Paterno

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