January 26
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January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days left in the year (340 in leap years).
[edit] Births
- 1925 - Paul Newman, American actor
- 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
[edit] Death
- 1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
- 1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (born 1556)
- 1636 - Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (born 1552)
- 1697 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640)
- 1744 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (born 1683)
- 1750 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (born 1686)
- 1795 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (born 1732)
- 1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (born 1722)
- 1823 - Edward Jenner, English physician (born 1749)
- 1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (born 1791)
- 1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (born 1808)
- 1870 - Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (born 1785)
- 1885 - Edward Davy, English inventor, physician, and scientist (born 1806)
- 1885 - Charles George Gordon, British general (born 1833)
- 1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (born 1807)
- 1891 - Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor of the internal-combustion engine (born 1833)
- 1893 - Abner Doubleday, Major General, United States Army and purported inventor of baseball (born 1819)
- 1942 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (born 1868)
- 1943 - Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (born 1880)
- 1943 - Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist (born 1887)
- 1947 - Grace Moore, American soprano (plane crash) (born 1898)
- 1947 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne (born 1906)
- 1952 - Horloogiyn Choybalsan, leader of Mongolia (born 1895)
- 1961 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (born 1900)
- 1962 - Lucky Luciano, American mobster (born 1897)
- 1968 - Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher, and aviation promoter (born 1883)
- 1968 - Yvor Winters, American poet and critic (born 1900)
- 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (born 1893)
- 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States (born 1908)
- 1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (born 1913)
- 1990 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (born 1895)
- 1992 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (born 1912)
- 1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (born 1905)
- 1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (born 1922)
- 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (born 1930)
- 1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (born 1959)
- 1997 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (born 1904)
- 1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (born 1898)
- 2000 - Don Budge, American tennis player (born 1915)
- 2000 - Kathleen Hale, British author (born 1898)
- 2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (born 1912)
- 2001 - Al McGuire, American basketball coach (born 1928)
- 2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Russian athlete (born 1942)
- 2003 - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (born 1917)
- 2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (born 1931)
- 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (born 1979)
[edit] Events
- 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
- 1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to discover Brazil.
- 1531 - Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
- 1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
- 1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records.
- 1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- 1785 - Benjamin Franklin writes a letter to his daughter expressing disappointment over the selection of the eagle as the symbol of the United States; he wanted the turkey.
- 1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sail into Sydney Harbour to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Celebrated as Australia Day.
- 1802 - The U.S. Congress passes an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol; eventually this becomes the Library of Congress.
- 1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (but temporary) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
- 1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
- 1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
- 1841 - The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, which China had ceded.
- 1861 - The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union.
- 1863 - American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
- 1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.
- 1885 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
- 1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.
- 1905 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.
- 1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane.
- 1934 - The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
- 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
- 1942 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
- 1946 - Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.
- 1950 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.
- 1956 - 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
- 1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
- 1962 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
- 1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.
- 1966 - The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
- 1970 - Folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel release classic album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
- 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
- 1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.
- 1986 - Super Bowl XX: The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10.
- 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
- 1992 - Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24.
- 1993 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic.
- 1994 - A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
- 1996 - Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.
- 1997 - Super Bowl XXXI: The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots, 35-21.
- 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
- 1998 - Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.
- 2000 - Robert F. Vasa ordained Bishop of the Diocese of Baker
- 2000 - XHTML 1.0 becomes a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendation.
- 2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.
- 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
- 2003 - Super Bowl XXXVII: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Oakland Raiders, 48-21, earning the Buccaneers their first Vince Lombardi Trophy.
- 2005 - Three trains crash , killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California near Los Angeles.
- 2005 - Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate, Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.