What are the important events that happened on January 26? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 26: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 26 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 13, 2024 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,437,120 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘icosihexagon’ day.
Aquarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,053 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 26 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 1911 –Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
- 1942 –World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
- 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.
- 1965 –Hindi becomes the official language of India.
- 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).
- 1992 –Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
- 2009 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on January 26?
- 1714 –Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (d. 1785)
- 1781 –Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
- 1892 –Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
- 1918 –Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (d. 1989)
- 1921 –Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (d. 1999)
- 1933 –Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
- 1943 –Austin “Jack” Warner, Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
- 1947 –Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
- 1963 –Riddell Akua, Nauruan politician
- 1977 –Vince Carter, American basketball player
Who died on January 26?
- 1567 –Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
- 1636 –Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
- 1855 –Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
- 1942 –Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
- 1983 –Paul “Bear” Bryant, American football coach (b. 1913)
- 1990 –Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
- 1996 –Dave Schultz, American wrestler (b. 1959)
- 2001 –Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
- 2003 –Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
- 2006 –Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
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