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• Today is Wednesday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2014. There are 343 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 22, 1984, the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Washington Redskins 38-9 to win Super Bowl XVIII (18), played at Tampa Stadium in Florida; the CBS-TV broadcast featured Apple Computer's famous "1984" commercial introducing the Macintosh computer.
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• On this date:
• In 1498, during his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus arrived at the present-day Caribbean island of St. Vincent.
• In 1901, Britain's Queen Victoria died at age 81.
• In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." (By April, however, America also was at war.)
• In 1922, Pope Benedict XV died; he was succeeded by Pius XI.
• In 1938, Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" was performed publicly for the first time in Princeton, N.J.
• In 1944, during World War II, Allied forces began landing at Anzio, Italy.
• In 1953, the Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
• In 1968, the fast-paced sketch comedy series "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC-TV.
• In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Roe v. Wade decision, legalized abortions using a trimester approach. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died at his Texas ranch at age 64.
• In 1987, Pennsylvania treasurer R. Budd Dwyer, convicted of defrauding the state, proclaimed his innocence at a news conference before pulling out a gun and shooting himself to death in front of horrified spectators.
• In 1994, actor Telly Savalas died in Universal City, Calif., a day after turning 72.
• In 1998, Theodore Kaczynski (kah-ZIHN'-skee) pleaded guilty in Sacramento,

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