January 22 1090:
Emperor Shirakawa goes to
The Kumano Sanzan shrines
(Kumano in Wakayama, Japan)


January 22 1905:
Bloody Sunday
(St. Petersburg, Russia)

January 22 1879:

Arriving at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, near their Wyoming homeland,
Dull Knife and his people surrendered to the government in the hopes they would be allowed to stay in the territory.
To their dismay, administrators instead threatened to hold the band captive at Fort Robinson
until they would agree to return south to the Indian Territory.
Unwilling to give up when his goal was so close, in early January,
Dull Knife led about 100 of his people in one final desperate break for freedom.
Soldiers from Fort Robinson chased after the already weak and starving band of men, women, and children,
and on January 22, they attacked and killed at least 30 people, including several in the immediate family of Dull Knife.

Badly bloodied, most of the survivors returned to Fort Robinson and accepted their fate.
Dull Knife managed to escape, and he eventually found shelter with Chief Red Cloud on the Sioux reservation in Nebraska.
Permitted to remain on the reservation, Dull Knife died four years later,
deeply bitter towards the Anglo-Americans he had once hoped to live with peacefully.
The same year, the government finally allowed the Northern Cheyenne to move to a permanent reservation on the Tongue River in Montana
near their traditional homeland.
At last, Dull Knife's people had come home, but their great chief had not lived to join them.

January 23 1870:

Declaring he did not care whether or not it was the rebellious band of Indians he had been searching for,
Colonel Eugene Baker orders his men to attack a sleeping camp of peaceful Blackfeet along the Marias River in northern Montana.

January 25 1956:

In a long interview with visiting American attorney Marshall MacDuffie,
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev adopts a friendly attitude toward the United States
and indicates that he believes President Dwight Eisenhower is sincere in his desire for peace.
The interview was the precursor to Khrushchev's announcement later that same year that he wanted "peaceful coexistence"
between the United States and the Soviet Union.

January 26 1875:

Mistakenly believing Frank and Jesse James are hiding out at their family home, a gang of men--
likely led by Pinkerton detectives--
mount a raid that leaves the outlaws' mother permanently maimed and their nine-year-old half-brother dead.