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January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of the year (340 in leap years).

Events

• 1340 – King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
• 1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
• 1531 – Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
• 1564 – The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
• 1565 – Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
• 1589 – Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• 1699 – Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.
• 1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• 1736 – Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
• 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
• 1808 – Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) 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 later formally cedes.
• 1855 – Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
• 1856 – First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
• 1861 – American Civil War: 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: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew 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.
• 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
• 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 successful American seaplane.
• 1911 – Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
• 1924 – St.Petersburg is renamed Leningrad
• 1930 – The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
• 1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
• 1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
• 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
• 1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
• 1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
• 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
• 1958 – Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
• 1961 – John F. Kennedy appoints Janet 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 the moon. The space probe later misses 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 near Adelaide, South Australia.
• 1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
• 1980 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
• 1991 – Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
• 1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
• 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
• 2001 – An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
• 2004 – President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
• 2004 – A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
• 2005 – Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.

Births

• 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 – Trinley Gyatso, Tibetan, The 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
• 1864 – József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet and journalist in Hungary (d. 1934)
• 1878 – Dave Nourse, South African cricketer (d. 1948)
• 1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
• 1885 – Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)
• 1887 – François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
• 1887 – Marc Mitscher, American 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)
• 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)
• 1908 – Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (d. 2009)
• 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 – Princess Hadice 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 (d. 2009)
• 1919 – Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur. (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
• 1921 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian (d. 1996)
• 1922 – Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (d. 1993)
• 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)
• 1930 – Napoleón Abueva, Filipino sculptor
• 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)
• 1947 – John Mather, Philosopher ALC
• 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
• 1953 – Alik L. Alik, vice-president of the Federate States of Micronesie
• 1954 – Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer
• 1955 – Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician (Van Halen)
• 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 – Li Cunxin, Chinese-Australian ballet dancer
• 1961 – Tom Keifer, American musician (Cinderella)
• 1961 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1962 – Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
• 1963 – José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
• 1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, English musician
• 1963 – Riddell Akua, Nauruan politician
• 1963 – Gisela Valcarcel, Peruvian Hostess
• 1964 – Paul Johansson, American actor
• 1965 – Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
• 1965 – Thomas Östros, Swedish politician
• 1967 – Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
• 1968 – Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
• 1969 – Michael O'Hearn, American bodybuilder
• 1970 – Kirk Franklin, American gospel singer
• 1970 – Tracy Middendorf, American actress
• 1971 – Bryan Callen, American actor
• 1971 – Dorian Gregory, American actor
• 1973 – Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka
• 1973 – Melvil Poupaud, French actor
• 1974 – Shannon Hale, American author
• 1975 – Frankie Rayder, American model
• 1976 – Willie Adler, American guitar player
• 1977 – Vince Carter, American basketball player
• 1977 – Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player
• 1977 – Tye Tribbett, American Singer
• 1978 – Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
• 1978 – Corina Morariu, American tennis player
• 1978 – Kelly Stables, American actress
• 1979 – Sara Rue, American actress
• 1981 – Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan Composer/Conductor
• 1981 – Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist
• 1983 – Petri Oravainen, Finnish footballer
• 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 – Hero, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
• 1986 – Shantelle Malawski, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1987 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
• 1987 – Mia Rose, English/Portuguese singer
• 1987 – Marlon Mario Brandao da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Samir Nasri, French footballer
• 1989 – Emily Hughes, American figure skater
• 1990 – Christopher Massey, American actor
• 1993 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
• 2009 – Suleman octuplets

Deaths

• 946 – Eadgyth, German Queen (b. 910)
• 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 of baseball (b. 1819)
• 1904 – Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
• 1926 – John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. 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)
• 1948 – John Lomax, American teacher, pioneering musicologist and folklorist (b. 1867)
• 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, 41st Vice 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 the House 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)
• 1996 – Frank Howard, American college football player and coach (b. 1909)
• 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, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi 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 of Marlon Brando (b. 1958)
• 2008 – Viktor Schreckengost, leader of American 20th century design (b. 1906)

Holidays and observances

• Australia Day (Australia)
• Christian Feast day
  • Alberic
  • Margaret of Hungary
  • Paula
  • Timothy and Titus
  • January 26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Liberation Day (Uganda)
• Republic Day, one of only three national holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and pageantry with a military parade in New Delhi and across the rest of the nation. (India)
• third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra (Roman Empire)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On this day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus

• selected by Kalki

2005

Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. ~ Archimedes

• selected by Kalki

2006

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. ~ Douglas MacArthur (born 26 January 1880)

• selected by Kalki

2007

The only gold is love,
A coin that we have minted from the light
Of others who have cared for us on Earth
And who have deposited in us the power
That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.
~ Philip José Farmer ~

• selected by Kalki

2008

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might,
Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart,
For daytime's vulture talons tear apart
The tender alcoves built by love at night.
~ Philip José Farmer ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't Nietzsche's. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ~ Philip José Farmer

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

• In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ Douglas MacArthur
  • Used 24 April 2004, selected by Kalki

• Duty, Honor, Country — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ Douglas MacArthur
  • Used 12 May 2006, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions

We hope to breed a race of men whose power
Dwells in hearts as open as all Space
Itself, who ask for nothing but the light
That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars
Above will be below when man has Love.
~ Philip José Farmer ~

• 3 Kalki 00:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 19:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. ~ Paul Newman

• 3 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
  • The rest of these Newman quotes can be moved to September 26, his date of death, after we see which we want to use for his recent death. - Zarbon 15:35, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 3. I would recommend moving any unused quotes to his DOB, January 26. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 22:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~ Paul Newman

• 2 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
  • The quote has now been sourced - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Just when things look darkest, they go black. ~ Paul Newman

• 3 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
  • The quote has now been sourced. - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. ~ Paul Newman

• 2 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
  • The quote has now been sourced. - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. ~ Paul Newman

• 2 Zarbon 15:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 22:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on January 26.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 1987
  • Dragon Quest II for the Famicom in Japan

From Familypedia

January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of the year (340 in leap years).

Events

• 1340 - King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
• 1500 - Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
• 1531 - Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
• 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
• 1565 - Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
• 1589 - Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
• 1699 - Treaty of Carlowitz signed.
• 1700 - The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
• 1736 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
• 1788 - The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Sydney Harbour to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
• 1808 - Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) 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 later formally ceded.
• 1855 - Point No Point Treaty signed in Washington Territory.
• 1861 - American Civil War: 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.
• 1905 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier 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 successful seaplane.
• 1911 - Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• 1920 - Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
• 1930 - The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
• 1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
• 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
• 1942 - World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
• 1950 - India promulgates its constitution forming a republic and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president Republic Day.
• 1952 - Black Saturday in Egypt: riots burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
• 1961 - John F. Kennedy appoints Janet 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 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 near Adelaide, South Australia.
• 1980 - Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
• 1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre in New York.
• 1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is removed in Somalia, ending centralized government
• 1992 - Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia is going to stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
• 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
• 2000 - Rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
• 2001 - An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
• 2004 - President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
• 2004 - A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
• 2005 - Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, near Los Angeles.
• 2005 - Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
• 2006 - Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service.

Births

• 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, 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 and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
• 1887 - François Faber, Luxembourgian 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)
• 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)
• 1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (d. 1990)
• 1914 - Princess Hadice 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 Denktash, 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
• 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)
• 1928 - George H. Ross, American attorney and TV reality show star
• 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
• 1937 - Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
• 1941 - Scott Glenn, American actor
• 1941 - Henry Jaglom, English director
• 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 - Janet Lupo, American model
• 1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
• 1953 - Lucinda Williams, American singer
• 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 Hawk, wrestler (d. 2003)
• 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
• 1968 - Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
• 1970 - Kirk Franklin, American singer
• 1971 Bryan Callen, American actor
• 1971 - Dorian Gregory, American actor
• 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 - 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, American singer
• 1989 - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
• 1993 - Cameron Bright, Canadian actor

Deaths

• 946 - Eadgyth, German Queen
• 1567 - Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
• 1630 - Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
• 1636 - Jean Hotman, 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, 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 of baseball (b. 1819)
• 1904 - Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
• 1926 - John Flannagan, 2nd president of St. 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, (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)
• 1976 - João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
• 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1984 - 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)
• 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
• 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, English historian (b. 1917)
• 2003 - George Younger, British politician (b. 1931)
• 2004 - Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
• 2004 - Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
• 2006 - Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
• 2007 - Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
• 2007 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)

Holidays and observances

• Australia - Australia Day.
• Roman Empire - third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra.
• Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
  • Timothy and Titus
  • Saint Paula
  • Saint Alberic
  • Saint Margaret of Hungary
• India - Republic Day - One of only three state holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and a military parade in New Delhi.
• Uganda - Liberation Day.
• January 26

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On this day in Canada