About January 26
January 26, 2024 is the 26th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 15 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 26
- 1500 –Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
- 1531 –Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
- 1589 –Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
- 1837 –Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
- 1838 –Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
- 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.
- 1911 –Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
- 1918 –Finnish Civil War: A group of Red Guards hangs a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers’ Hall to symbolically mark the start of the war.
- 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.
- 1933 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 1942 –World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
- 1949 –The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1980 –Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
- 1992 –Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
- 2004 –President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
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