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 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 340 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 13, 2020 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,579,996,800 seconds 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.
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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 383 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 2,592 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 26 Historical Events
- 1736 –Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- 1885 –Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
- 1939 –Spanish Civil War: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
- 1961 –John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
- 1965 –Hindi becomes the official language of India.
- 1966 –The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
- 1991 –Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
- 1992 –Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
- 1998 –Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had “sexual relations” with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
- 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?
- 1541 –Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
- 1826 –Julia Dent-Grant, First Lady of the United States (d. 1902)
- 1900 –Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
- 1908 –Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
- 1908 –Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (d. 2009)
- 1908 –Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
- 1933 –Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
- 1941 –Henry Jaglom, English director
- 1964 –Paul Johansson, American actor
- 1982 –Reggie Hodges, American football player
Who died on January 26?
- 1886 –David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
- 1926 –John Flannagan, American educator
- 1942 –Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
- 1961 –Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
- 1993 –Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (b. 1905)
- 1993 –Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (b. 1912)
- 1996 –Frank Howard, American college football player and coach (b. 1909)
- 1996 –Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, (b. 1921)
- 1996 –Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
- 1998 –Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (b. 1898)
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