* Astronomy

A total solar eclipse occurred on January 22, 1898.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_January_22,_1898

Solar eclipse of January 22, 1879
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47430382/solar-eclipse-of-january-22-1879/

The Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47430321/the-battle-of-isandlwana/

The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke%27s_Drift

Bloody Sunday was the name given to the events of 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1905)

Thomas David Jones (born January 22, 1955) is a former United States astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_David_Jones

Captain William Kidd (c. 22 January 1645 - 23 May 1701) was a Scottish sailor
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t60168863/captain-william-kidd-1645-1701/

Sir John Vincent Hurt (22 January 1940 - 25 January 2017) was an English actor 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hurt

Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans (January 22, 1903 - March 1, 1966) was a nuclear physicist 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Georg_Houtermans

Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22, 1908 - April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Davidovich_Landau

Louis Karl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen (22 January 1865 - 25 February 1947), was a German physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Paschen

Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg (January 22, 1890, Vologda - February 2, 1957, Moscow) was a Soviet physicist. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47430342/grigory-samuilovich-landsberg-1890-1957/

Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 - 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_August_Bohr

Sir Francis Bacon (22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

Gianluca Masi (born 22 January 1972) is an Italian astrophysicist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluca_Masi

Pierre Gassendi (January 22, 1592 - October 24, 1655) was a French astronomer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52345511/pierre-gassendi-1592-1655/

Jean Charles Rodolphe Radau (January 22, 1835 - December 21, 1911) was an French astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodolphe_Radau

Professor Andrzej Udalski (born 22 January 1957) is a Polish astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Udalski

György Kulin (28 January 1905 - 22 April 1989) was a Hungarian astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Kulin

Lottie Williams was hit by falling space junk in January 1997
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98700

Extrasolar planet HD 47536 b was discovered on January 22, 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_47536_b

PSR B1257+12 B, also named Poltergeist, was the first planet ever discovered outside the Solar System on the 22nd January 1992
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56370736/psr-b125712b/

Asteroid 51 Nemausa was discovered on January 22, 1858
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51_Nemausa

The Great Comet of 1472 (C/1471 Y1) passed 0.0690 AU (26.9 lunar distances) from the Earth on the 22nd January 1472.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t63137045/comet-c1471-y1/

Comet Cunningham: 22 January 1941, GREAT COMET CRAZE ENDS IN FUZZY ANTI-CLIMAX
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8189186

On 22 January 2013, the Russian BLITS satellite was hit by debris from the Chinese Fengyun 1C satellite. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t31186229/blits-satellite/

In 1997 an Oklahoma woman named Lottie Williams was hit in the shoulder by space-junk
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56387591/lottie-williams/

Title: The meteor of January 22, 1918
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56387633/meteor-of-january-22-1918/

Koolatong sinkhole: 22 January 1950, Pilot Reports Crater Of Meteorite
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56389450/koolatong-sinkhole/