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Republic of India born
The Twist ends record-setting run
Tennessee passes nation’s first prohibition law
Pinzon discovers Brazil
Franco captures Barcelona
William Hayes English composer and organist born in Gloucester (d. 1777) baptismal date
Claude Helvetius philosopher born in Paris France
George Sackville Germain 1st Viscount Sackville
Alexander Carlyle Cummertrees Dumfriesshire Scottish church leader (Moderator of the General Assembly 1770)
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers German composer born in Hanover (d. 1806)
Charles XIV [Jean Bernadotte] King of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) Marshall of France born in Pau France (d. 1844)
Jacob Andries van Braam colonial director (Suriname)
Ugo Foscolo Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
Ludwig Joachim Achim von Arnim German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
Benjamin Robert Haydon Plymouth painter (Waiting for The Times)
Juan Pablo Duarte Dominican founding father (d. 1876
Rufus King American newspaper editor politician and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in NYC New York (d. 1876)
Lloyd Tilghman Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1863)
Mary Mapes Dodge American writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates) born in NYC New York
George Shiras Jr. U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
Pierre Brazza explorercolonial administrator (French Africa)
Trinley Gyatso 12th Dalai Lama born in Tibet (d. 1875)
Harry Micajah Daugherty American politician lawyer and political manager accused of corruption born in Washington Court House Ohio (d. 1941)
Warner Fabian [Samuel H Adams] US journalistwriter (Average Jones)
A W Dave Nourse cricketer (Grand Old Man of South African cricket)
Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans Flemish (stage)author (Tille)
Edward Sapir German linguistantropologist (indians)
Roy Chapman Andrews American scientistexplorer
Marc A Pete Mitscher US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)
Franois Faber Luxembourgian cyclist (Tour de France 1909) born in Aulnay-sur-lton France (d. 1915)
Ilya G Ehrenburg writer (Fall of Paris The Thaw) born in Kiev Ukraine
Wilder Penfield American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
Zara Cully American actress (The Jeffersons) born in Worcester Massachusetts (d. 1978)
Bessie Coleman 1st African American airplane pilot
Giuseppe Genco Russo Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
Wyllis Cooper American TV narrator (Volume One) born in Pekin Illinois (d. 1955)
Ervin Major Hungarian composer born in Budapest (d. 1967)
Menno ter Braak Dutch writeressayist (Carnaval of the Citizens)
Jan 26 1482 Pentateuch the Jewish Bible is 1st printed as a book in Bologna Italy
Jan 26 1500 Vicente Yez Pinzn becomes the first European to set foot in Brazil
Jan 26 1564 The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism