January 22

1892: French aircraft designer Marcel Dassault was born. 1900: David Hughes, inventor of the carbon microphone, died. 1939: The cyclotron at Columbia University in New York City split the uranium atom for the first time. 1970: The first regularly scheduled commercial flight of the Boeing 747 began in New York City and ended in London, 6 1/2 hours later. 1984: The Macintosh computer was announced. 1992: Dr. Roberta Bondar became the first Canadian woman in space, aboard the Space Shuttle. 1994: Irving Berlin Kahn, inventor of the teleprompter, died. 1997: Lottie Williams, of Oklahoma, officially became the first human to be struck by a remnant of a space vehicle after re-entering the earth's atmosphere. 2003: The final contact with the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was made.