Sanarchive:Selected anniversaries/January 22

22 January:  Major events in the arts

• 1963 – The influential French New Wave film Le Mépris, directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Brigitte Bardot, began principal photography in Rome.
• 1968 – The NBC television network aired Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In for the first time, a show that fundamentally changed the visual style and editing of TV comedy.
• 1984 – Apple introduced the Macintosh computer during a Super Bowl commercial titled 1984, directed by Ridley Scott, now considered a masterpiece of cinematic advertising.
• 1987 – The televised tragedy of Budd Dwyer occurred; the event later became a significant subject in industrial music, documentaries, and dark art explorations.
• 2004 – The European Space Agency's Mars Express sent back the first high-resolution color images of Mars, inspiring a new wave of space-themed digital art.

• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (b. 1729)
• Barbara Stanwyck (d. 1990)
• Heath Ledger (d. 2008)