22 January 2006 (Sunday)
- British diplomats are accused of spying on Russia using a fake rock. (BBC)
- Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous American president. (ABC News)
- Fears of sabotage ensue after explosions of two gas pipelines in Russia's North Ossetian Republic suspend gas supply to Georgia and Armenia. (BBC)
- Kobe Bryant scores 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second highest in NBA history, next to Wilt Chamberlain's 100.
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Famous quotes containing the word january:
“and you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)