January 22 in history: • 1689 – The Convention Parliament met to decide the fate of the throne after James II, the last Catholic monarch of England, fled to France following the Glorious Revolution. → go there • 1906 – The SS Valencia was wrecked off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, in a location so treacherous it was known as the Graveyard of the Pacific. → go there • 1969 – Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (pictured) survived what was seen as an assassination attempt, an incident that was not revealed to the public until after the fall of the Soviet Union. → go there • 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route. → go there • 1979 – After surrounding Mutukula the previous day, Tanzanian forces attacked the town and caused Ugandan forces to flee. → go there Died 906: Empress He Wiki link Born 1796: Karl Ernst Claus Wiki link Born 1906: Willa Brown Wiki link Died 1979: Ali Hassan Salameh Wiki link Pictured: Leonid Brezhnev.