- January 26
Events
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1340 - KingEdward III of England is declaredKing of France .
*1500 -Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the firstEurope an to set foot onBrazil .
*1531 -Lisbon ,Portugal hit by anearthquake --thousands die.
*1564 - TheCouncil of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction betweenRoman Catholicism andProtestantism .
*1565 -Battle of Talikota , fought between theVijayanagara Empire and theIslamic sultanates of theDeccan , leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the lastHindu kingdom inIndia , and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of theIndian subcontinent .
*1589 - Job is elected asPatriarch of Moscow and All Russia .
*1699 -Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
*1700 - The magnitude 9Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of theNorth America , as evidenced byJapan ese records.
*1736 -Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
*1788 - The BritishFirst Fleet , led byArthur Phillip , sails intoSydney Harbour to establishSydney , the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated asAustralia Day
*1808 -Rum Rebellion , the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government inAustralia .
*1837 -Michigan is admitted as the 26thU.S. state .
*1838 -Tennessee enacts the firstprohibition law in theUnited States
*1841 - TheUnited Kingdom formally occupiesHong Kong , whichChina later formally ceded.
*1855 -Point No Point Treaty signed inWashington Territory .
*1856 - FirstBattle of Seattle (1856) . Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
*1861 -American Civil War : The state ofLouisiana secedes from the Union.
*1863 - American Civil War: GeneralAmbrose Burnside is relieved of command of theArmy of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced byJoseph Hooker .
* 1863 - American Civil War:Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise amilitia organization for men ofAfrican descent.
*1870 - American Civil War:Virginia rejoins the Union.
*1885 - Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquerKhartoum .
*1905 - TheCullinan Diamond is found nearPretoria ,South Africa at thePremier Mine .
*1907 - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
*1911 -Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successfulseaplane .
* 1911 -Richard Strauss ' operaDer Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
*1920 - FormerFord Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches theLincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
*1930 - TheIndian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
*1934 - TheApollo Theater reopens inHarlem , New York City.
*1934 -German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
*1939 -Spanish Civil War : Troops loyal to nationalist GeneralFrancisco Franco and aided byItaly takeBarcelona .
*1942 -World War II : The firstUnited States forces arrive inEurope landing inNorthern Ireland .
*1950 -India promulgates its constitution forming a republic andRajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president. Republic Day.
*1952 - Black Saturday inEgypt : riots burnCairo 's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
*1958 -Japan ese ferry "Nankai Maru" capsized off southernAwaji Island ,Japan , 167 killed.
*1961 -John F. Kennedy appointsJanet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
*1962 -Ranger program :Ranger 3 is launched to study themoon . Thespace probe later missed the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
*1965 -Hindi becomes the official language ofIndia .
*1966 - TheBeaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach nearAdelaide ,South Australia .
*1980 -Israel andEgypt establish diplomatic relations.
*1988 -Andrew Lloyd Webber 'sThe Phantom of the Opera has its first performance on Broadway at theMajestic Theatre in New York.
*1991 - MohamedSiad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government
*1992 -Boris Yeltsin announces thatRussia is going to stop targetingUnited States cities withnuclear weapon s.
*1998 -Lewinsky scandal : On American television, U.S. PresidentBill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with formerWhite House internMonica Lewinsky .
*2001 - Anearthquake hits Gujarat,India , causing more than 20,000 deaths.
*2004 - PresidentHamid Karzai signs the new constitution ofAfghanistan .
* 2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan,Taiwan . A build-up of gas in the decomposingSperm whale is suspected of causing theexplosion .
*2005 -Glendale train crash : Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 inGlendale, California , nearLos Angeles .
*2006 -Western Union discontinues use of itstelegram service.Births
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1497 -Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d.1557 )
*1541 -Florent Chrestien , French writer (d.1596 )
*1714 -Jean-Baptiste Pigalle , French sculptor (d.1785 )
*1716 -George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville , British soldier and politician (d.1785 )
*1722 -Alexander Carlyle , Scottish church leader (d.1805 )
*1763 -Charles XIV John of Sweden , Napoleonic general (d.1844 )
*1781 -Achim von Arnim , German poet (d.1831 )
*1813 -Juan Pablo Duarte , Dominican founding father (d.1876
*1826 -Julia Dent Grant ,First Lady of the United States (d.1902 )
*1832 -George Shiras Jr. , U.S. Supreme Court justice (d.1924 )
*1842 -François Coppée , French poet and novelist (d.1908 )
*1852 -Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d.1905 )
*1857 - the 12th Dalai Lama (d.1875 )
*1868 -Juventino Rosas , Mexican composer (d.1894 )
*1880 -Douglas MacArthur , American general andMedal of Honor recipient (d.1964 )
*1887 -François Faber ,Luxembourg ian cyclist (d.1915 )
* 1887 -Marc Mitscher , American Navy Admiral (d.1947 )
*1891 -Frank Costello , Italian-born gangster (d.1973 )
* 1891 -Wilder Penfield , American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d.1976 )
*1892 -Zara Cully , American actress (d.1978 )
* 1892 -Bessie Coleman , American pioneer aviator (d.1926 )
*1893 -Giuseppe Genco Russo , Sicilian mafioso (d.1976 )
*1900 -Karl Ristenpart , German conductor (d.1967 )
*1901 -Stuart Symington , American politician (d.1988 )
*1902 -Menno ter Braak , Dutch author and polemicist (d.1940 )
*1904 -Ancel Keys , American scientist (d.2004 )
* 1904 -Seán MacBride , Irish statesman, Nobel Prize Laureate (d.1988 )
*1905 - Charles Lane, American actor (d.2007 )
* 1905 -Maria von Trapp , Austrian-born singer (d.1987 )
*1908 -Stéphane Grappelli , French jazz violinist (d.1997 )
* 1908 -Jill Esmond , English actress (d.1990 )
*1910 -Jean Image , Hungarian-born French animator (d.1989 )
*1911 -Polykarp Kusch , German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d.1993 )
* 1911 -Norbert Schultze , German composer and songwriter (d.2002 )
*1913 -Jimmy Van Heusen , American songwriter (d.1990 )
*1914 - PrincessHadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d.2006 )
*1915 -William Hopper , American actor (d.1970 )
*1918 -Nicolae Ceauşescu , Romanian dictator (d.1989 )
* 1918 -Philip José Farmer , American writer
*1921 -Akio Morita , Japanese businessman (d.1999 )
* 1921 -Eddie Barclay , French producer (Barclay Records ) (d.2005 )
*1922 -Michael Bentine , British comedian (d.1996 )
*1923 -Anne Jeffreys , American actress
*1924 -Rauf Denktaş , Cypriot politician
* 1924 -Annette Strauss , American philanthropist and politician (d.1998 )
* 1924 -Alice Babs , Swedish singer
*1925 -Joan Leslie , American actress
* 1925 -Paul Newman , American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (d.2008 )
* 1925 -Claude Ryan , Quebec newspaper editor (d.2004 )
*1926 -Farman Fatehpuri , Pakistani scholar
*1927 -José Azcona del Hoyo ,President of Honduras (d.2005 )
* 1927 -Bob Nieman , American baseball player (d.1985 )
*1928 -Roger Vadim , French film director and actor (d.2000 )
*1929 -Jules Feiffer , American cartoonist and writer
* 1929 -Gordon Solie , American wrestling commentator (d.2000 )
*1931 - Mary Murphy, American film actress
*1932 -Coxsone Dodd , Jamaican record producer
*1933 -Ercole Baldini , Italian cyclist
*1934 -Roger Landry , Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
*1935 -Bob Uecker , American baseball player and broadcaster
*1936 -Sal Buscema , American comic book artist
*1937 -Joseph Saidu Momoh , Sierra Leone political leader (d.2003 )
*1941 -Scott Glenn , American actor
* 1941 -Henry Jaglom , English director
*1942 -Souad Hosni , Egyptian actress (d.2001 )
*1943 -César Gutiérrez , Venezuelan baseball player (d.2005 )
* 1943 -Jean Knight , American singer
*1943 -Austin "Jack" Warner ,Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
*1944 -Angela Davis , American feminist and activist
*1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d.1987 )
*1946 -Gene Siskel , American film critic (d.1999 )
*1947 -Michel Sardou , French singer
* 1947 -Patrick Dewaere , French actor (d.1982 )
*1949 -Jonathan Carroll , American author
* 1949 -David Strathairn , American actor
*1950 -Jörg Haider , Austrian far-right politician (d.2008 )
* 1950 -Janet Lupo , American model
*1953 -Anders Fogh Rasmussen ,Prime Minister of Denmark
* 1953 -Lucinda Williams , American singer
*1954 -Kim Hughes , Australian cricketer
*1955 -Eddie Van Halen , Dutch musician
*1958 -Anita Baker , American singer
* 1958 -Ellen DeGeneres , American actress and comedian
* 1958 -Salvador Sánchez , Mexican boxer
*1960 -Road Warrior Animal , American professional wrestler
* 1960 -Charlie Gillingham , American musician (Counting Crows )
*1961 -Wayne Gretzky , Canadian ice hockey player
*1962 -Oscar Ruggeri , Argentine footballer
*1963 -José Mourinho , Portuguese football manager
* 1963 -Andrew Ridgeley , English musician
*1964 -Paul Johansson , American actor
*1965 -Natalia Yurchenko , Soviet gymnast
* 1965 -Thomas Östros , Swedish politician
*1967 -Pradip Somasundaran ,India nplayback singer
*1968 -Ravi Teja ,Tollywood film actor
*1969 -Michael O'Hearn , American bodybuilder
*1970 -Kirk Franklin , American singer
* 1970 -Tracy Middendorf , American actress
*1971 -Bryan Callen , American actor
* 1971 -Dorian Gregory , American actor
*1973 -Mayu Shinjo , Japanesemangaka
*1974 -Shannon Hale , American author
*1976 -Frankie Rayder , American model
* 1976 -Willie Adler , American guitar player
*1977 -Vince Carter , American basketball player
* 1977 -Justin Gimelstob , American tennis player
*1978 -Estéban Germán , Dominican baseball player
* 1978 -Corina Morariu , American tennis player
* 1978 -Kelly Stables , American actress
*1979 -Sara Rue , American actress
*1981 -Juan Jose Haedo , Argentinian Cyclist
*1984 -Layla Kayleigh , British television personality
* 1984 -Iain Turner , Scottish footballer
* 1984 -Luo Xuejuan , Chinese swimmer
*1986 -Gerald Green , American basketball player
* 1986 -Matt Heafy , American musician (Trivium)
* 1986 -Shantelle Taylor , Canadian professional wrestler
*1987 -Vladimir Garin , Russian actor (d.2003 )
*1988 -Mia Rose , British-Portuguese singer
*1989 -Emily Hughes , American figure skater
*1990 -Christopher Massey , American actor
*1993 -Cameron Bright , Canadian actorDeaths
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946 -Eadgyth , German Queen
*1567 -Nicholas Wotton , English diplomat
*1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b.1556 )
*1636 -Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul , French diplomat (b.1552 )
*1697 -Georg Mohr , Danish mathematician (b.1640 )
*1744 -Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller , Austrian field marshal (b.1683 )
*1750 -Albert Schultens , Dutch philologist (b.1686 )
*1795 -Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , German composer (b.1732 )
*1799 - Gabriel Christie, British general (b.1722 )
*1823 -Edward Jenner , English physician (b.1749 )
*1824 -Théodore Géricault , French painter (b.1791 )
*1855 -Gérard de Nerval , French writer (b.1808 )
*1869 -Duncan Gordon Boyes , English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b.1846 )
*1870 -Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie , French statesman and diplomat (b.1785 )
*1885 -Edward Davy , English inventor (b.1806 )
* 1885 -Charles George Gordon , British general (b.1833 )
*1886 -David Rice Atchison , American politician (b.1807 )
*1891 -Nikolaus August Otto , German inventor (b.1833 )
*1893 -Abner Doubleday , credited inventor ofbaseball (b.1819 )
*1904 -Whitaker Wright , English mining tycoon (b.1846 )
*1926 -John Flannagan , 2nd president ofSt. Ambrose University
*1932 -William Wrigley Jr. , American industrialist (b.1861 )
*1933 -Alva Belmont , American socialite (b.1853 )
*1942 -Felix Hausdorff , German mathematician (b.1868 )
*1943 -Harry H. Laughlin , American eugenicist (b.1880 )
* 1943 -Nikolai Vavilov , Russian botanist (b.1887 )
*1946 -Adriaan van Maanen , Dutch-American astronomer (b.1884 )
*1947 -Grace Moore , American soprano (b.1898 )
* 1947 -Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten , (b.1906 )
*1952 -Khorloogiin Choibalsan , leader of Mongolia (b.1895 )
*1953 -Athanase David , French Canadian politician and businessman (b.1882 )
*1961 -Stan Nichols , English cricketer (b.1900 )
*1962 -Lucky Luciano , American mobster (b.1897 )
*1968 -Merrill C. Meigs , American newspaper publisher (b.1883 )
* 1968 -Yvor Winters , American poet (b.1900 )
*1973 -Edward G. Robinson , American actor (b.1893 )
*1973 -Jay C. Higginbotham , American musician (b.1906 )
*1976 -João Branco Núncio , Portuguese Bullfighter (b.1901 )
*1979 -Nelson Rockefeller , 41stVice President of the United States (b.1908 )
*1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (b.1913 )
*1990 -Lewis Mumford , American historian (b.1895 )
* 1990 -Bob Gerard , British racing driver (b.1914 )
*1992 -José Ferrer , Puerto Rican actor (b.1912 )
*1993 -Jan Gies , Dutch resistance leader (b.1905 )
* 1993 -Jeanne Sauvé ,Governor-General of Canada (b.1922 )
* 1993 -Robert Jacobsen , Danish artist (b.1912 )
*1996 -Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg , head of theHouse of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b.1921 )
* 1996 -Harold Brodkey , American author (b.1930 )
* 1996 -Henry Lewis , American musician and conductor (b.1932 )
* 1996 -Stevie Plunder , Australian musician (b.1963 )
* 1996 - Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b.1959 )
*1997 -Jeane Dixon , American astrologer (b.1904 )
*1998 - Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b.1898 )
*2000 -Don Budge , American tennis player (b.1915 )
* 2000 -Kathleen Hale , British author (b.1898 )
* 2000 -A. E. van Vogt , Canadian-born author (b.1912 )
*2001 -Al McGuire , American basketball coach (b.1928 )
*2003 -Valeriy Brumel , Soviet Olympic athlete (b.1942 )
* 2003 -Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton , English historian (b.1917 )
* 2003 -George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie , British politician (b.1931 )
* 2004 -Fred Haas , American golfer (b.1916 )
*2006 -Khan Abdul Wali Khan ,Pakistan i opposition leader andPashtun nationalist (b.1917 )
* 2006 -Len Carlson , Canadian actor (b.1937 )
* 2006 -Carol Lambrino , son ofCarol II of Romania andZizi Lambrino (b.1920 )
*2007 -Hans J. Wegner , Danish furniture designer (b.1914 )
* 2007 -Gump Worsley , Canadian ice hockey player (b.1929 )
*2008 -Christian Brando , actor and son ofMarlon Brando (b1958 )Holidays and observances
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Australia -Australia Day .
*Roman Empire - third day of theSementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.
*Feast day of the followingsaints in theRoman Catholic Church :
**Timothy and Titus
**Saint Paula
**Saint Alberic
**Saint Margaret of Hungary
*India -Republic Day - One of only threenational holidays in India , celebrated with pomp and a military parade inNew Delhi & across Nation.
*Uganda -Liberation Day .
*January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
*World Social Forum marks a Global Call for Action.External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/26 BBC: On This Day]
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* [http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jan&day=26 On this day in Canada] ----
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