January 22, 1998 NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild January 22, 1998 Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time January 22, 1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit January 22, 1998 World League of American Football becomes NFL East January 22, 1997 Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, dies at 73 January 22, 1997 Irwin Levine, composer (Tie a Yellow Ribbon), dies at 58 January 22, 1997 Mollie Panter-Downes, writer , dies at 90 January 22, 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful January 22, 1997 Wally Whyton, musician/broadcaster, dies at 66 January 22, 1996 Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77 January 22, 1996 Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer, dies at 71 January 22, 1996 Mabel Leigh, potter, dies at 80 January 22, 1996 Yisrael Eldad, extremist politician, dies at 85 January 22, 1995 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48 January 22, 1995 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29 January 22, 1995 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88 January 22, 1995 Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37 January 22, 1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed January 22, 1995 Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament January 22, 1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104