26 Januar

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The 26t o Januar is the 26t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 339 days ti come (340 in lowp years).

Events

1700 - A yirdquauk hits the present-day Northwast o the Unitit States.
1788 - The first convicts land at Botany Bay, present-day Sydney, Australie.
1837 - Michigan becomes the 26t state o the Unitit States.
1861 - Louisiana secedes frae the Unitit States.
1870 - Virginie rejyns the Unitit States.
1871 - Roum becomes the caipital ceety o the Kinrick o Italy.
1905 - The "Cullinan Diamond" is found at the Premier Mine naur Pretoria, Sooth Africae.
1924 - Saunt Petersburg is renamed Leningrad.
1930 - The Indian Naitional Congress declares 26 Januar as independence day.
1950 - Indie becomes a republic.
1956 - Stairt o the Winter Olympic Gemmes in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
1965 - Hindi becomes an offeecial leid o Indie.
2001 - A strong yirdquauk hits Gujarat, Indie, killin 20,000 fowk.
2005 - Condoleezza Rice becomes Unitit States Secretar o State.
2009 - The Icelandic govrenment an bankin system collapse.
2015 - Alexis Tsipras becomes Prime meenister o Greece.
2017 - Alexander Van der Bellen becomes Preses o Austrick.
2019 - Naomi Osaka o Japan wins the Australian Open weemen's singles teetle agin Petra Kvitova, makkin her the first Asie player wi the Nummer Ane warld rankin.
2020 - A helicopter crashes in Calabasas, Californie, killin 9 fowk, incluidin basketbaw starn Kobe Bryant an his dochter Gianna.
2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The recordit COVID-19 daith toll in the Unitit Kinrick exceeds 100,000.
2021 - Kaja Kallas becomes the first female Prime meenister o Estonie.
2021 - Antony Blinken becomes Unitit States Secretar o State.

Births

1763 - Charles XIV John o Swaden (d. 1844)
1855 - McKinnon Wood, Breetish politeecian (d. 1927)
1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-American pheesicist (d. 1993)
1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Preses o Romanie (d. 1989)
1924 - Alice Babs, Swadish sangster an actress (d. 2014)
1925 - Paul Newman, American actor an businessman (d. 2008)
1941 - Arturo Di Modica, Italian-American artist (d. 2021)
1946 - Michel Delpech, French sangster (d. 2016)
1950 - Jörg Haider, Austrick politeecian (d. 2008)
1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Dens politeecian
1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American muisicker (Van Halen) (d. 2020)
1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian, telly host an actress
1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1962 - John Brown, Scots fitbawer
1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese fitbaw manager
1973 - Brendan Rodgers, Northren Erse fitbaw manager
1981 - Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan violinist, componer an conductor
1987 - Sebastian Giovinco, Italian fitbawer
1990 - Peter Sagan, Slovak road bicycle racer
1990 - Sergio Pérez, Mexican racin driver

Daiths

1823 − Edward Jenner, Inglish medicinar (b. 1749)
1850 - Francis Jeffrey, Laird Jeffrey, Scots juidge an leeterar creetic (b. 1773)
1878 - Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Scots blacksmith an inventor (b. 1812)
1908 - Alexander Mann, Scots penter (b. 1853)
1947 - John Flett, Scots geologist (b. 1869)
1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1908)
2005 - Jackie Henderson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1932)
2014 - José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer (b. 1939)
2017 - Mike Connors, American actor (b. 1925)
2020 - Kobe Bryant, American basketbaw player (b. 1978)

Halidays

Naitional Day o Australie
Republic Day (Indie)
Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
Ingineer's Day (Panama)
Liberation Day (Uganda)
Warld Customs Day