Daily Archives: January 22, 2025

Political matriarch Rose Kennedy, 104, dies 30 years ago this hour (Jan 22 1995)

1990s


Video: 'Rose Kennedy death announcement - whdh Boston'

(Sunday, January 22, 1995, 5:30 p.m. EST) — Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of President John F. Kennedy and of two United States Senators, the wife of a fabulously wealthy businessman-ambassador and the matriarch of a family whose political triumphs and personal tragedies she carried with quiet dignity for 80 years, died this afternoon at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, from complications from pneumonia. She was 104.

‘Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere)’ by Bill Haley & His Comets peaks at #11 in USA 70 years ago today (Jan 22 1955)

1950s, Popular Music 1950s

(Saturday, January 22, 1955) — “Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere)” by Bill Haley & His Comets was the #11 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for one week.

Patton urges new, all-out attack on German ‘Bulge’ 80 years ago today (Jan 22 1945)

1940s, World War II


Video: 'The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle' (Jan. 22, 1945, at 1:11:36)

(Monday, January 22, 1945; during the Battle of the Bulge on the Western Front of World War II) — “Patton called Bradley and urged that all armies attack, whether they were fatigued or had losses or not…”