DailyTimeCapsule brief
January 22, 2026
January 22, 2026 carried a deadly Myanmar airstrike, the year’s Oscar nominations, and a rising Karachi fire toll across the same capsule. A Myanmar military airstrike on a village near Bhamo killed 21 people, while the Academy announced the 98th Oscars nominations from Beverly Hills. In Karachi, the shopping-plaza fire death toll rose to 67. Venom: Let There Be Carnage led the exact-date movie slate, The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin opened the television premieres, and Wall Street closed with SPY at $688.98, QQQ at $620.76, and DIA at $493.69. NASA’s ExoMiner++ release and South Korea’s AI Basic Act taking effect gave the day a technology lane tied to identifiable tools and rules instead of generic AI filler.
Key developments
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A Myanmar military airstrike on a village near Bhamo sheltering displaced people killed 21 people and wounded 28 others.
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The Academy announced the 98th Oscars nominations on January 22 from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
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Officials in Karachi said the death toll from the shopping-plaza fire had risen to 67 as recovery work continued.