Today in History - History - January 22nd

1995Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament

1989After winning his third Super Bowl as head coach of the San Fransisco 49ers, Bill Walsh retires

1971John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Power to the People"

1973George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1956Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open

1989Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR

1980Russian dissidents Andrei Sakharov & Jelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky

199017th American Music Award: Paula Abdul & Bobby Brown win

1575English Queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis & William Byrd music press monopoly

1988Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title

1960Michael Hutchence, Australia, rock vocalist/actor (INXS-Dogs in Space)

1875D.W. Griffith, LaGrange, Kentucky, American film director/producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)

1934Bill Bixby, San Francisco California, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)

1957Mike Bossy, Montreal Quebec, NHL forward (NY Islanders), 1st 50 goals in 50 game

1561Francis Bacon, Strand, London, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum), (d. 1626)

1904George Balanchine [Giorgi Balanchivadze], ballet composer/choreographer, (d. 1983), [OS=Jan 9]

2006Princess of Rock and Roll Lisa Marie Presley (37) weds American guitarist and producer Michael Lockwood (44) at Kyoto, Japan

1942Novelist Anthony Burgess (25) weds Llewela Jones

2005Business magnate and "The Apprentice" host Donald Trump (56) weds former model Melania Knauss (34) at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida

1960Comedic actor Bob Denver (25) weds Maggie Ryan in California

1995Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted, dies at 104

2008Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)