About January 26
January 26, 2025 is the 26th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 3 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 26
- 1564 –The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
- 1589 –Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
- 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: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
- 1905 –The world’s largest diamond ever, the Cullinan weighing 3106.75 carat, 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 second oldest military rifle still in official use.
- 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.
- 1934 –German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
- 1945 –World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1991 –Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
- 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.
- 2028 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
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