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Historical Events

26 Jan 1482
Pentateuch the Jewish Bible is 1st printed as a book in Bologna Italy
26 Jan 1500
Vicente Yez Pinzn becomes the first European to set foot in Brazil
26 Jan 1564
The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
26 Jan 1589
Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
26 Jan 1654
Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife
26 Jan 1699
Venice Poland & Austria sign Treaty of Carlowitz with Ottoman Empire
26 Jan 1700
The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America as evidenced by Japanese records
26 Jan 1748
Britain Netherlands Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
26 Jan 1789
John Odell signs contract for 336 to build St Peters church in the Bronx
26 Jan 1802
Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
26 Jan 1808
Rum Rebellion the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia
26 Jan 1833
Gaetano Dinozettis opera Lucrezia Borgia premieres in Milan
26 Jan 1838
Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
26 Jan 1841
Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
26 Jan 1850
1st German language daily newspaper in US published NYC
26 Jan 1857
douard-Lon Scott de Martinville delivers his design for a phonautograph which created visual images of sound to the French Academy
26 Jan 1861
Louisiana secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
26 Jan 1863
American Civil War Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent (54th Massachusetts Regiment)
26 Jan 1870
US Congress authorises Virginia to rejoin the union
26 Jan 1871
Formation of the first Rugby Union at a meeting at Pall Mall restaurant London England
26 Jan 1875
Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
26 Jan 1881
Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
26 Jan 1885
Muhammad Ahmed (Mahdi) rebels conquer Khartoum
26 Jan 1887
Battle of Dogali Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians
26 Jan 1897
Battle at Bida Gold Coast British troops beat Nupes army
26 Jan 1900
Henrik Ibsens Naar vi Dode Vaaguer premieres in Stuttgart
26 Jan 1905
Han Yong-woon [Bongwan Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
26 Jan 1905
Worlds largest diamond the 3106-carat Cullinan is found in South Africa
26 Jan 1907
1st US federal corrupt election practices law passed
26 Jan 1907
John Millington Synges Playboy of Western World opens in Dublin play claimed as immoral and causes riots
26 Jan 1907
The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III rifle officially introduced into British Military Service 2nd oldest military rifle still in official use
26 Jan 1907
In Austria universal and direct suffrage (limited to males over 24) is introduced a reform long demanded by the socialists and others
26 Jan 1911
Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane San Diego
26 Jan 1911
Richard Strausss opera Die Rosenkavalier premieres Dresden
26 Jan 1914
Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlincks works in their index
26 Jan 1915
Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado is established
26 Jan 1920
Amedeo Modiglianis fianc Jeanne Hbuterne jumps out of a window a day after the artists funeral killing herself and her unborn child
26 Jan 1920
Former Ford Motor Co. executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer
26 Jan 1921
Toronto NHL center Corb Denneny scores 6 goals to lead St. Patricks to a 10-3 win over Hamilton Tigers in Toronto
26 Jan 1922
Ralph Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony premieres in London
26 Jan 1924
American skater Charles Jewtraw claims the first ever Winter Olympic gold medal wins 500m speed skating event in 44.0s at the Chamonix Games in France
26 Jan 1924
Australasian Championships Womens Tennis Melbourne All-Australian final Sylvia Lance Harper beats Esna Boyd Robertson 6-3 3-6 8-6
26 Jan 1924
Australasian Championships Mens Tennis. Melbourne James Anderson wins 2nd of 3 Australasian titles beats fellow Australian Richard Schlesinger 6-3 6-4 3-6 5-7 6-3
26 Jan 1924
Clas Thunberg of Finland claims his first of 4 gold medals when he wins the 5000m speed skating in 220.8 at the Chamonix Winter Olympics
26 Jan 1927
Maxwell Andersons play Saturdays Children premieres in New York City
26 Jan 1929
Indian National Congress proclaims goal for Indias independence
26 Jan 1931
Lynn Riggs Green Grow the Lilacs premieres in NYC
26 Jan 1931
Cimarron directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne premieres in New York. 1st western to win Best Outstanding ProductionPicture ()
26 Jan 1932
British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead)
26 Jan 1932
KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
26 Jan 1934
Nazi Germany & Poland sign 10-year non-aggression treaty
26 Jan 1934
The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem New York City.
26 Jan 1942
1st US force in Europe during WW II go ashore in Northern Ireland
26 Jan 1945
Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
26 Jan 1948
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Nancye Wynne Bolton beats Marie Toomey 6-3 6-1 for 4th straight Australian single title
26 Jan 1948
Australian Championships Mens Tennis Adrian Quist wins his 3rd Australian title beats fellow Australian and doubles partner John Bromwich 6-4 3-6 6-3 2-6 6-3
26 Jan 1949
WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
26 Jan 1950
Constitution of independent India comes into effect Rajendra Prasad elected Indias first president
26 Jan 1951
Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
26 Jan 1952
At least 20 people have been killed and 100s injured during riots in Cairo against the British
26 Jan 1956
VII Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina dAmpezzo Italy
26 Jan 1956
Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
26 Jan 1957
Bernanos & Poulencs opera Dialogue des Carmelites premieres
26 Jan 1957
Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves
26 Jan 1958
Jack Smith takes over from Art Baker as TV host of You Asked for It
26 Jan 1958
Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsized off southern Awaji Island Japan 167 killed.
26 Jan 1959
KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City OK (INDPBS) begins broadcasting
26 Jan 1959
Australian Championships Womens Tennis Mary Carter Reitano wins her 2nd home singles title beats Renee Schuurman of South Africa 6-2 6-3
26 Jan 1959
Australian Championships Mens Tennis American based Peruvian Alex Olmedo wins his first Grand Slam event beats Neale Fraser of Australia 6-1 6-2 3-6 6-3
26 Jan 1960
High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
26 Jan 1960
Oakland Raiders enter the American Football League
26 Jan 1962
Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checkers Twist is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
26 Jan 1962
David Diamonds 7th Symphony premieres in Philadelphia
26 Jan 1962
US launches Ranger 3 misses Moon by 22000-mi (37000-km)
26 Jan 1963
Milk & Honey closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 543 performances
26 Jan 1963
Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
26 Jan 1965
South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh
26 Jan 1966
The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide South Australia.
26 Jan 1967
Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50000 automobiles to be abandoned
26 Jan 1968
Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea 69 die
26 Jan 1969
Red White & Maddox opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances
26 Jan 1969
Minister of Health and Social Services William Morgan resigns from the Northern Ireland government
26 Jan 1969
Police break up a march by hundreds of demonstrators in central Prague
26 Jan 1970
Pendleton Ford & Cryers Last Sweet Days of Isaac premieres in NYC
26 Jan 1970
Australian Open Womens Tennis Margaret Court beats fellow Australian Kerry Melville Reid 6-1 6-3 Court retains title for 9th Australian singles crown and 1st leg of her Grand Slam
26 Jan 1970
Bridge over Troubled Water 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)
26 Jan 1971
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts law against limitation of war crimes
26 Jan 1972
Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10160m fall without parachute - worlds highest fall without a parachute
26 Jan 1974
Blent Ecevit becomes Prime Minister of Turkey for the 1st time
26 Jan 1976
Belgium Catholic elite starts amnesty campaign for war criminals
26 Jan 1976
David Mamets American Buffalo premieres in NYC
26 Jan 1976
NFL Pro Bowl Louisiana Superdome New Orleans NFC beats AFC 23-20 MVP Billy Johnson Houston Oilers WR
26 Jan 1977
Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift in Helsinki
26 Jan 1978
Frank Herbert completes his novel Destination Void
26 Jan 1978
International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
26 Jan 1979
The Dukes of Hazzard premieres on US TV network CBS
26 Jan 1980
Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game
26 Jan 1980
Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4 minutes
26 Jan 1981
Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 v Australia at Adelaide Oval
26 Jan 1982
Islanders score 4 goals within 138 5 within 237 vs Penguins
26 Jan 1982
For the first time since the 1930s the unemployed population in UK rises above three million
26 Jan 1983
Dutch British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California
26 Jan 1984
Nordiques Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
26 Jan 1984
US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst New Jersey
26 Jan 1985
Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
26 Jan 1986
Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champion
26 Jan 1986
Yoweri Musevenis rebel army conquers Kampala Uganda
26 Jan 1986
Super Bowl XX Louisiana Superdome New Orleans LA Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots 46-10 MVP Richard Dent Chicago DE
26 Jan 1987
Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
26 Jan 1988
Phantom of the Opera opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4000 performances
26 Jan 1988
Australian 200th anniversary parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbour
26 Jan 1989
Black & Blue opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
26 Jan 1989
AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years 1.67 B in 1988
26 Jan 1989
Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
26 Jan 1989
Madison Square Garden announces 2-year 100m renovation plan
26 Jan 1989
Test debut of Mark Taylor Australia v West Indies Sydney
26 Jan 1989
US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
26 Jan 1990
Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
26 Jan 1990
Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking African American female in a major-league front office)
26 Jan 1991
Few Good Men closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
26 Jan 1991
Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
26 Jan 1991
Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 pts in a quarter
26 Jan 1991
Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
26 Jan 1991
NY Lotto pays 90 million to nine winners (s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
26 Jan 1991
Houston guard Vernon Maxwell becomes 5th player in NBA history to score 30 points in a quarter in Rockets 103-97 home win over Cleveland joins Wilt Chamberlain David Thompson George Gervin & Michael Jordan
26 Jan 1992
Little Hotel on the Side opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 41 performances
26 Jan 1992
Super Bowl XXVI Metrodome Minneapolis MI Washington Redskins beat Buffalo Bills 37-24 MVP Mark Rypien Washington QB
26 Jan 1992
Australian Open Mens Tennis American Jim Courier wins 2nd career Grand Slam title and 1st Australian title beats Stefan Edberg of Sweden 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-2
26 Jan 1992
8th Sundance Film Festival In the Soup wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
26 Jan 1993
West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
26 Jan 1993
Everton scores a 3-1 away win over Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in London lowest ever attendance at an EPL fixture 3039
26 Jan 1995
With a record 6254427 ballots cast by fans in NBA All-Star Voting Detroits Grant Hill becomes the first rookie to lead all NBA players in All-Star votes received earning 1 on 1289585 ballots
26 Jan 1996
Les Miserables opens at Musichall Theatre Duisburg
26 Jan 1997
Ideal Husband closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 308 performances
26 Jan 1997
Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant
26 Jan 1997
Super Bowl XXXI Louisiana Superdome New Orleans LA Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots 35-21 MVP Desmond Howard Green Bay KR
26 Jan 1997
Australian Open Mens Tennis Pete Sampras wins his 2nd and last Australian title beats Carlos Moy of Spain 6-2 6-3 6-3
26 Jan 1997
Australian Open Womens Tennis Martina Hingis becomes first Swiss player male or female to win a Grand Slam singles title beats Mary Pierce of France 6-2 6-2
26 Jan 1997
13th Sundance Film Festival Sunday wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
26 Jan 1700
The magnitude 8.7-9.2 Cascadia earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America as evidenced by Japanese records
26 Jan 1986
Yoweri Musevenis rebel army conquers Kampala Uganda
26 Jan 1982
In a 9-2 NHL win over Pittsburgh Penguins the NY Islanders score 4 goals within 138 5 within 237 in a 6 goal 1st period
26 Jan 1838
Myall Creek Massacre about 50 Wirrayaraay indigenous people killed by New South Wales Mounted Police (seven men later the first ever to be hanged for killing Australian Aborigines) [1]
26 Jan 1871
The Rugby Football Union is formed at a meeting of 21 clubs at the Pall Mall Restaurant London England
26 Jan 1895
Alexander Gretchaninovs 1st Symphony premieres in Saint Petersburg Russia with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov conducting
26 Jan 1924
Clas Thunberg of Finland claims his first of 5 gold medals when he wins the 5000m speed skating in 220.8 at the Chamonix Winter Olympics
26 Jan 1939
Filming begins on film adaptation of Gone With The Wind
26 Jan 1949
Australias Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 comes into force granting Australian citizenship and nationality to all people born or naturalised in Australia including First Nations people
26 Jan 1957
Francis Poulencs opera Dialogue des Carmelites premieres at La Scala in Milan
26 Jan 1972
Aboriginal Tent Embassy protest for land rights begins on the lawn of Parliament House Canberra Australia. Longest continuous protest for indigenous rights in the world.
26 Jan 1699
Venice Poland & Austria sign Treaty of Karlowitz with Ottoman Empire ending the Great Turkish War (1683-97) - 1st time Ottomans concede significant territory
26 Jan 1979
Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands
26 Jan 1988
Phantom of the Opera opens at Majestic Theater NYC runs for 4000 performances
26 Jan 1991
A Few Good Men closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 497 performances
26 Jan 1891
Oscar Wildes tragic play Duchess of Padua premieres at the Broadway Theater in NYC
26 Jan 1911
Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane in San Diego California [1]
26 Jan 1920
American Henry Lelands military engine manufacturing company the Lincoln Motor Company reorganizes as an automobile manufacturer he sells the struggling company to the Ford Motor Company in 1922yer
26 Jan 1942
1st US force in Europe during WWII go ashore in Northern Ireland
26 Jan 1947
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashes shortly after takeoff from Kastrup Airport near Copenhagen Denmark 16 passengers and 6 crew members die
26 Jan 1949
200 (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used at Palomar observatory in Palomar Mountain California [see also June 3 1948]
26 Jan 1962
David Diamonds 7th Symphony premieres with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy
26 Jan 1984
US Navy exhibits experimental Piasecki Helistat - a combination of 4 helicopters and a blimp - able to lift 26 tons at Naval Air Station in Lakehurst New Jersey
26 Jan 1986
Super Bowl XX Louisiana Superdome New Orleans Louisiana Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots 46-10 MVP Richard Dent Chicago DE
26 Jan 2001
An earthquake hits Gujarat India causing more than 20000 deaths.
26 Jan 2003
Super Bowl XXXVII Qualcomm Stadium San Diego CA Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Oakland Raiders 48-21 MVP Dexter Jackson Tampa Bay S
26 Jan 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.
26 Jan 2004
Mydoom the most destructive computer worm (so far) first sighted on computers in North America. Goes on to cause 38 billion in damages.
26 Jan 2005
Glendale train crash Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale California near Los Angeles.
26 Jan 2006
Western Union discontinues its telegram service.
26 Jan 2009
I Run to You single by Lady Antebellum is released (Grammy Award Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Billboard Song of the Year )
26 Jan 2010
After 6 consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth the UK economy officially finally comes out of recession with a GDP growth of 0.1%
26 Jan 2013
10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz Afghanistan
26 Jan 2013
30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said Egypt
26 Jan 2013
Milo Zeman wins the Czech Republics presidential election
26 Jan 2013
The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz
26 Jan 2014
21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
26 Jan 2015
Libby Lane is ordained as the first female bishop of the Church of England
26 Jan 2016
Cold snap across East Asia leads to more than 50 deaths and 60000 travellers stranded in South Korea
26 Jan 2016
Leader of Oregon militia occupying Malheur wildlife refuge arrested and another killed in shoot-out with Federal agents
26 Jan 2018
Residents left without heat in -27C in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan after boiler breaks in main power station
26 Jan 2019
Chew Valley Hoard of 2528 silver coins from the Norman conquest is found near Bath - the highest-value treasure find ever in England at 4.3m (5.6 million) [1]
26 Jan 2019
Five people shot and killed in domestic deputes in Louisiana a 21- year old gunman arrested a day later
26 Jan 1939
Filming begins on the film adaptation of Gone with the Wind
26 Jan 1957
Francis Poulencs opera Dialogue des Carmelites premieres at La Scala Teatro in Milan Italy
26 Jan 1970
Bridge Over Troubled Water the 5th and final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year Best Engineered Non-Classical Album 1971)
26 Jan 1970
Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Fords rock musical The Last Sweet Days of Isaac opens off-Broadway at the East Side Playhouse NYC
26 Jan 1972
Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives a 10160m fall without a parachute the worlds highest fall without a parachute
26 Jan 1992
Super Bowl XXVI Metrodome Minneapolis Minnesota Washington Redskins beat Buffalo Bills 37-24 MVP Mark Rypien Washington QB
26 Jan 2022
US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announces his retirement
26 Jan 2023
Five ex-Memphis police officers charged with murdering Tyre Nichols who they beat at a traffic stop on Jan 7 [1]