Today in History: January 22

1689

England's "Bloodless Revolution" reaches its climax when parliament invites William and Mary to become joint sovereigns.

1807

President Thomas Jefferson exposes a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.

1813

During the War of 1812, British forces under Henry Proctor defeat a U.S. contingent planning an attack on Fort Detroit.

1824

A British force is wiped out by an Asante army under Osei Bonsu on the African Gold Coast. This is the first defeat for a colonial power.

1863

In an attempt to out flank Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, General Ambrose Burnside leads his army on a march to north Fredericksburg, but foul weather bogs his army down in what will become known as the "Mud March."

1879

Eighty-two British soldiers hold off attacks by 4,000 Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in South Africa.

1905

Russian troops fire on civilians beginning Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg.

1912

Second Monte Carlo auto race begins.

1913

Turkey consents to the Balkan peace terms and gives up Adrianople.

1930

Admiral Richard Byrd charts a vast area of Antarctica.

1932

Government troops crush a Communist uprising in Northern Spain.

1939

A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.

1943

Axis forces pull out of Tripoli for Tunisia, destroying bases as they leave.

1944

U.S. troops under Major General John P. Lucas make an amphibious landing behind German lines at Anzio, Italy, just south of Rome.

1971

Communist forces shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the first time.

1979

Abu Hassan, the alleged planner of the 1972 Munich raid, is killed by a bomb in Beirut.

1982

President Ronald Reagan formally links progress in arms control to Soviet repression in Poland.