January 26
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January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 339 days remaining (340 in
leap years).
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Events
\n*1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.\n*1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón become the first European to discover Brazil.\n*1531 - Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.\n*1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz signed.\n*1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records.\n*1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. \n*1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, land at Botany Bay just outside present-day Sydney to establish the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Celebrated as Australia Day. \n*1837 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state. \n*1841 - The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. \n*1863 - American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise amilitia organization for men of African descent.\n*1870 - American Civil War: Virginia rejoins the Union.\n*1885 - Troops loyal to the Mahdi conquer Khartoum.\n*1887 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians.\n*1905 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine. \n*1911 - Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful seaplane. \n*1934 - The Apollo Theatre opens in Harlem, New York City. \n*1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona. \n*1942 - World War II: The first American forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.\n*1946 - Félix Gouin becomes Prime Minister of France.\n*1950 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.\n*1956 - 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.\n*1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment. \n*1962 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles. \n*1965 - Hindi becomes the official language of India.\n*1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.\n*1983 - Lotus 1-2-3 is released.\n*1986 - Super Bowl XX: The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots, 46-10.\n*1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.\n* 1992 - Super Bowl XXVI: The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills, 37-24.\n*1993 - Václav Havel elected President of the Czech Republic.\n*1994 - A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia. \n*1996 - Whitewater scandal: Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury. \n*1997 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI, with a score of 35-21. \n*1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, Bill Clinton denies he had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.\n* 1998 - Compaq buys Digital Equipment Corporation.\n*2001 - A 50-year-old Douglas DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela killing 24.\n* 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.\n*2003 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers win their first Super Bowl title by defeating the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII, 48-21.
Births
\n*1763 - Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, future king Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway (d. 1841)\n*1781 - Achim von Arnim, poet (d. 1831)\n*1826 - Louis Favre, engineer Gotthard tunnel (d. 1879)\n* 1826 - Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)\n*1831 - Mary Mapes Dodged, writer (d. 1907)\n*1880 - Douglas MacArthur, general (d. 1964)\n*1901 - Stuart Symington, politician (d. 1988)\n*1904 - Ancel Keys, scientist\n*1905 - Charles Lane, actor\n* 1905 - Bernhard Minetti, actor\n* 1905 - Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)\n*1908 - Stéphane Grappelli, musician, composer (d. 1997)\n*1918 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)\n* 1918 - Philip Jose Farmer, science fiction writer\n*1923 - Anne Jeffreys, actress\n*1924 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998)\n*1925 - Paul Newman, actor\n*1926 - Ralph Brance, baseball star\n*1928 - Eartha Kitt, singer and actress\n* 1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)\n*1929 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer\n*1932 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, Jamaican record producer\n*1941 - Henry Jaglom, director\n* 1941 - Scott Glenn, actor\n*1944 - Angela Davis, feminist and activist\n*1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, cello player (d. 1987)\n*1946 - Gene Siskel, film critic (d. 1999)\n*1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark\n*1955 - Eddie Van Halen, musician\n*1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, actress, comedienne\n*1961 - Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey player\n*1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, musician
Deaths
\n*1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)\n*1946 - Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Westrobothnia, second in line to the Swedish throne (b. 1906)\n*1962 - Lucky Luciano, mobster (b. 1897)\n*1972 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel music singer (b. 1911)\n*1973 - Edward G. Robinson, actor (b. 1893)\n*1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)\n*1990 - Lewis Mumford, historian (b. 1895)\n*1992 - José Ferrer, actor (b. 1912)\n*1993 - Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)\n*2000 - Don Budge, tennis player (b. 1915)\n* 2000 - A.E. van Vogt, science fiction author (b. 1912)\n*2003 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (b. 1942)\n* 2003 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
Holidays and observances
\n*Roman Empire - third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra\n*Australia - Australia Day\n*Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Timothy and Titus.\n*India - Republic Day
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