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4 sourced moments from January 22 in history: Rorke's Drift: about 150 men held off 4,000 Zulus (1879); Queen Victoria wore black for 40 years but chose a white funeral (1901); Apple's '1984' Super Bowl ad debuts the Macintosh, plus 1 more.

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4 things happened on January 22

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1988 Society & Economy · Crime

The first murder solved by DNA cleared an innocent man first

A new technique called genetic fingerprinting caught a double murderer in 1980s England - and exonerated the wrong suspect before it convicted the right one.

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1984 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

Apple's '1984' Super Bowl ad debuts the Macintosh

A sixty-second mini-film cast the personal computer as a hammer thrown at conformity, and changed Super Bowl advertising forever.

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1901 History · Empires & Civilizations

Queen Victoria wore black for 40 years but chose a white funeral

She died at Osborne on 22 January 1901 after 63 years on the throne — and left orders that her funeral be military and white.

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1879 History · War & Conflict

Rorke's Drift: about 150 men held off 4,000 Zulus

Hours after Isandlwana, a tiny depot garrison survived a night of assaults in January 1879 — and London rushed to turn it into a story.

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