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January 22, 2008

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 16, 2008, covering January 22, 2008.

  1. 1
    Album cover for In Rainbows by Radiohead

    In Rainbows

    Radiohead

    Last week
    156
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for As I Am by Alicia Keys

    As I Am

    Alicia Keys

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8
  3. 3
    Album cover for Growing Pains by Mary J. Blige

    Growing Pains

    Mary J. Blige

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for NOW 26 by Various Artists

    NOW 26

    Various Artists

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    8
  5. 5
    Album cover for Taylor Swift by Taylor Swift

    Taylor Swift

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    63

Notable Deaths

Heath Ledger

2008Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director (born 1979)[†]

Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, he moved to the United States in 1998 to further develop his film career. His work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Casanova (2005), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008), and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), the latter two of which were posthumously released. He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.

Miles Lerman

2008Miles Lerman, Polish Holocaust survivor and activist (born 1920)[†]

Miles Lerman was an American activist who helped plan and create both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the memorial at the BeĆ‚ĆŒec extermination camp. Lerman, a Holocaust survivor himself, had fought as a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II in Nazi German occupied Poland.

Historical Context for January 22, 2008

In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]