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Events on January 22

• 1349 The Jewish community in Speyer, with around 400 members, is wiped out in a pogrom during the persecution of Jews at the time of the Black Death.
• 1536 On the Prinzipalmarkt in Münster, the leaders of the Münster Anabaptists, Jan van Leiden, Bernd Krechting and Bernd Knipperdolling, are publicly tortured and executed.
• 1891 The HAPAG express steamer Augusta Victoria sets sail from Cuxhaven on the shipping company's first luxury cruise.
• 1901 With the death of Queen Victoria, the Victorian era comes to an end in Great Britain. Edward VII succeeds his mother on the British throne.
• 1946 At the first zonal committee meeting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at Herford Town Hall, Konrad Adenauer is elected chairman of the CDU in the British Zone.
• 1963 The German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the French President Charles de Gaulle sign the German-French Treaty of Friendship, known as the Élysée Treaty, in the Élysée Palace in Paris.
• 1968 Apollo 5 launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on an unmanned test flight into Earth orbit. The lunar module is to be tested.
• 1979 The first episode of the television series Holocaust – The Story of the Weiss Family is broadcast as part of ARD's Third Program.
• 2001 Germany and the People's Republic of China sign a treaty for the construction of the Transrapid maglev railway. A 200-kilometre rail link between Shanghai and Hangzhou is to be built.
• 2006 The German biathletes secure a triple victory in a World Cup race: Martina Glagow claims her second victory of the season in the 12.5-kilometre mass-start race in Antholz. Andrea Henkel and Uschi Disl take 2nd and 3rd place.
• 2009 The drug Spice is banned in Germany through the expedited procedure.
• 2019 The German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President Emmanuel Macron sign the new German-French Treaty of Friendship, known as the Aachen Treaty, in Aachen Town Hall.

Born on January 22

• 1877 Hjalmar Schacht, German politician
• 1900 Ernst Busch, German singer, cabaret artist, actor and director
• 1911 Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician
• 1940 John Hurt, British actor
• 1950 Werner Schulz, German politician
• 1960 Michael Hutchence, Australian rock singer
• 1962 Peter Lohmeyer, German actor
• 1971 Markus Baur, German handball player
• 1971 Tim Mälzer, German television chef
• 1971 Sandra Speichert, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „22. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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