Today in history

January 22

1905
In a massacre known as Bloody Sunday, soldiers fired on civilians attempting to present petitions for better living and working conditionsto the Czar. The Russian workers lost faith in the Czar and turned to radicals and revolution to change their lives.

1971
200 killed by Somoza’s National Guard during protest against state violence, Managua, Nicaragua. (1967)
12 African-American congressmen boycott President Richard Nixon’s State of the Union Address because of his constant refusal to hear the concerns of Black Americans.

1973
World Council of Churches announces South African divestment. (1973)

1973
Women win control of their reproductive rights when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that women have a right to choose as part of their constitutional right to privacy, to terminate a pregnancy during its first two trimesters. Only during the last trimester, when the fetus can survive outside the womb, would states be permitted to regulate abortion of a healthy pregnancy.

1995
Over 2,000 demonstrators in Moscow protest Chechen war.

1997
150,000 workers in South Korea walk off their jobs to protest recent labor legislation.