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Today's featured article Caitlin Clark (born January 22, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In her college freshman season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, she earned All-American honors; as a sophomore, Clark was again first-team All-American and in her junior and senior seasons, she was the national player of the year. She became the Division I women's career and single-season leader in points and is regarded as one of the greatest collegiate players of all time. Clark was selected first overall by Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA draft. In her first season, she won the WNBA Rookie of the Year award, made the All-WNBA First Team and WNBA All-Star Game. At youth international level, Clark won three gold medals with the United States, including two at the FIBA Under-19 Women's World Cup. Since her college career, she has helped to popularize women's basketball, a trend known as the "Caitlin Clark effect". (Full article...) Recently featured: Ada Wong Andrew Jackson Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh Selected anniversaries January 22: Little New Year in northern China (2025); Day of Unity of Ukraine Cetshwayo 565 – Eutychius of Constantinople was arrested after he refused Byzantine emperor Justinian I's order to adopt the tenets of the Aphthartodocetae, a sect of non-Chalcedonian Christians. 1273 – Muhammad II became Sultan of Granada after his father's death in a riding accident. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zulu forces of King Cetshwayo (pictured) achieved a decisive victory at the Battle of Isandlwana. 1973 – The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. 2006 – Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. 2012 – Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union. Christian Ramsay (d. 1839) Vito Cascio Ferro (b. 1862) S. Vithiananthan (d. 1989) Ursula K. Le Guin (d. 2018) More anniversaries: January 21 January 22 January 23	In the news Grand Kartal Hotel in 2007 A fire at a ski resort hotel (pictured) in Kartalkaya, Turkey, leaves at least 76 people dead and injures 51 others. A series of attacks by the National Liberation Army in the Catatumbo region of Colombia leaves more than a hundred people dead. A ceasefire agreement suspends the Israel–Hamas war, involving the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Two Supreme Court judges are assassinated in a shooting at the Supreme Court of Iran in Tehran. Ongoing: Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Linda Nolan Tommy Brown Diane Langton Simon Townsend Claire van Kampen Nello Altomare Did you know... Flag of Mozambique ... that the flag of Mozambique (pictured), which depicts an AK-47 equipped with a bayonet, is the only national flag to feature a modern firearm? ... that the collapse of the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund left 14,500 customers A$66 million out of pocket? ... that a labor union sued a Seattle TV station over a newscast aired on another station? ... that Arthur Swanstrom co-wrote the lyrics to "the first Off-Broadway musical to gain wide recognition in New York"? ... that a popular romantic pairing from Doctor Who was later adapted into the show at the suggestion of lead actress Jodie Whittaker? ... that shipwreck hunter Noel Hilliam claimed to have found a sunken U-boat off the coast of New Zealand? ... that lead actor Ian Chan also composed, arranged, and performed the interlude for Last Song for You? ... that in the 2019 NFC Championship Game, Raheem Mostert became the first person to rush for more than 200 yards and score four touchdowns in an NFL playoff game? ... that Ana María Ochoa was born in Colombia, studied in British Columbia, and taught at Columbia?
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