Mariah Carey

The First Vision is the debut video album by Mariah Carey (pictured), released on January 22, 1991. It is a collection of music videos, live performances, and film footage detailing the development and promotion of Carey's first studio album Mariah Carey. It features music videos of "Vision of Love", "Love Takes Time", and "Someday", as well as snippets of future singles "I Don't Wanna Cry" and "There's Got to Be a Way". The collection presents Carey performing at Club Tatou and rehearsal footage for Saturday Night Live and It's Showtime at the Apollo. During an interview segment, Carey answers questions about her life and music. Critics considered the album insightful and praised the showcase of her live vocal abilities; others opined that it projected her in a sexual manner. The video peaked at numbers 2 and 24 respectively on US and UK music video charts. The Canadian Recording Industry Association certified it gold and the Recording Industry Association of America certified it platinum. (Full article...)

All Saints Church (Fort Worth, Texas)

• ... that, after All Saints Church (pictured) was handed over due to a Texas court ruling, its altar was found partially disassembled with a crucifix removed?
• ... that Cyclone Hudhud caused a 60-per-cent decrease in the population of birds in Visakhapatnam?
• ... that the sex-oriented blog Fleshbot received more than one million views in the week it was launched?
• ... that the 1854 San Salvador earthquake damaged San Salvador so severely that the government of El Salvador relocated to Cojutepeque for four years?
• ... that a Minnesota radio station went bankrupt within a year of signing on?
• ... that Ernest Hemingway sponsored a trophy called "Old Man and the Sea" for the West Palm Beach Fishing Club, and gave an autographed copy of his novel of the same title to the winner?
• ... that Duolingo users who played Genshin Impact could receive rewards for completing a streak on the Duolingo app?
• ... that the legislation to rename the Hubert H. Humphrey Building after U.S. senator Hubert Humphrey was cosponsored by every senator except Humphrey himself?
• ... that gender norms have been suggested to influence the consumption of panipuri?

Valentino in 2007

• Italian fashion designer Valentino (pictured), founder of his eponymous fashion house, dies at the age of 93.
• In association football, the Africa Cup of Nations concludes with Senegal defeating Morocco in the final.
• A diplomatic crisis over Greenland leads to European troop deployments and tariff threats from the United States.
• At least 43 people are killed after two trains collide in Adamuz, Spain.

January 22: Day of Unity of Ukraine (1919)

Leonid Brezhnev

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
• 1979 – Uganda–Tanzania War: After surrounding Mutukula the previous day, Tanzanian forces attacked the town in the Battle of Mutukula and caused Ugandan forces to flee.