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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 ).
Events
1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France .1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón become the first European to discover Brazil .1531 - Lisbon , Portugal is 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 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.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 Theatre 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 .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 .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 Buccanneers their first Vince Lombardi Trophy .2005 - The Glendale train crash occurs, involving three trains; the accident kills 11 and injures 200 in Glendale, California near Los Angeles early in the morning peak hours.2005 - Having been confirmed earlier in the day by a vote of 85-13 in the United States Senate , Condoleeza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State , becoming the first African American woman to hold the post. 2005 - A helicopter crash in eastern United States soldiers.
Births 1763 - Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, Napoleonic general and king Charles XIV of Sweden-Norway (d. 1841 )1781 - Achim von Arnim , poet (d. 1831 )1826 - Louis Favre, engineer Gotthard tunnel (d. 1879 )1826 - Julia Dent Grant , First Lady of the United States (d. 1902 )1831 - Mary Mapes Dodge, writer (d. 1907 )1880 - Douglas MacArthur , general (d. 1964 )1891 - Frank Costello , gangster (d. 1973 )1892 - Zara Cully , American actress (d. 1978 )1900 - Karl Ristenpart , German conductor (d. 1967 )1901 - Stuart Symington , politician (d. 1988 )1904 - Ancel Keys , scientist (d. 2004 )1905 - Charles Lane , actor1905 - Bernhard Minetti, actor 1905 - Maria von Trapp , singer (d. 1987 ) 1908 - Stéphane Grappelli , musician, composer (d. 1997 )1913 - William Prince, American actor (d. 1996 )1915 - William Hopper , American actor (d. 1970 )1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen , songwriter (d. 1990 ) 1918 - Nicolae Ceauşescu , Romanian dictator (d. 1989 )1918 - Vito Scotti, American actor (d. 1996 ) 1918 - Philip José Farmer , science fiction writer1921 - Akio Morita , co-founder of Sony (d. 1999 )1922 - Michael Bentine , British comedian (d. 1996 )1923 - Anne Jeffreys, actress1924 - Annette Strauss , philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1998 )1924 - Rauf Denktash , Cypriot politician 1925 - Paul Newman , actor1925 - Joan Leslie, American actress 1928 - Roger Vadim , French film director and actor (d. 2000 )1929 - Jules Feiffer , cartoonist , writer1932 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd , Jamaican record producer 1935 - Bob Uecker , broadcaster, baseball player, actor1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh , Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003 )1941 - Henry Jaglom, director1941 - Scott Glenn , actor1943 - Jean Knight , singer1943 - César Gutiérrez , Major League Baseball player (d. 2005 ) 1944 - Angela Davis , feminist and activist1945 - Jacqueline du Pré , cello player (d. 1987 )1946 - Gene Siskel , film critic (d. 1999 )1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen , Prime Minister of Denmark 1953 - Lucinda Williams , country singer 1955 - Eddie Van Halen , musician1958 - Ellen DeGeneres , actress, comedienne, talk show host1961 - Wayne Gretzky , ice hockey player1963 - Andrew Ridgeley , musician1963 - Jazzie B., singer 1970 - Kirk Franklin , gospel singer1977 - Vince Carter , basketball player
Deaths 1886 - David Rice Atchison , American politician (b. 1807 )1942 - Felix Hausdorff , German mathematician (b. 1868 )1946 - Swedish throne (b. 1906 )1962 - Lucky Luciano , mobster (b. 1897 )1968 - Merrill C. Meigs , newspaper publisher, aviation promoter (b. 1883 )1968 - Yvor Winters , poet, critic 1972 - Mahalia Jackson , gospel music singer (b. 1911 )1973 - Edward G. Robinson , actor (b. 1893 )1979 - Nelson Rockefeller , Governor of New York , Vice President of the United States (b. 1908 )1983 - Paul 'Bear' Bryant , football coach1990 - Lewis Mumford , historian (b. 1895 )1992 - José Ferrer , actor (b. 1912 )1993 - Jeanne Sauvé , Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922 )1993 - Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader 1996 - Dave Schultz , Olympic wrestler1996 - Harold Brodkey , American author 1998 - Shinichi Suzuki , music teacher1997 - Jeane Dixon , astrologer2000 - A. E. van Vogt , science fiction author (b. 1912 )2000 - Don Budge , tennis player (b. 1915 ) 2000 - Kathleen Hale, children's author 2001 - Al McGuire, basketball coach2003 - Valeriy Brumel , Soviet athlete (b. 1942 )2003 - British politician (b. 1931 )
Holidays and observances January 25 - January 27 - December 26 - February 26 -- listing of all days
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