This Day in History: January 22

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January 22

Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 63 years (the 4th longest among longest-reigning monarchs and the longest for queens).

500 workers were killed by the Czar's troops in "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg.

Thornton Wilder's play Our Town first performed publicly in Princeton, N.J.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Madeleine Albright as the first female secretary of state.