About January 26
January 26, 2020 is the 26th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 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 383 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.
- 1565 –Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
- 1589 –Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
- 1736 –Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- 1788 –The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
- 1808 –Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
- 1838 –Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
- 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.
- 1924 –Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
- 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.
- 1934 –The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
- 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).
- 1952 –Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo’s central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
- 1966 –The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
- 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.
- 2004 –President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
- 2009 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- 2009 –Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
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