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Birthday January 26, 1715 Claude Helvetius, French philosopher |
Birthday January 26, 1763 Charles XIV, French marshall and king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44) |
Birthday January 26, 1826 Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady |
Birthday January 26, 1831 Writer Mary Dodge, ('Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates') |
Birthday January 26, 1880 Gen Douglas MacArthur, he did return! |
Birthday January 26, 1904 Sean MacBride, Irish statesman and minister (Nobel Peace Prize 1974) |
Birthday January 26, 1913 Jimmy Van Heusen, songwriter |
Birthday January 26, 1918 Nicolae Ceausescu, Rumanian president |
Birthday January 26, 1923 Anne Jeffereys, in North Carolina |
Birthday January 26, 1925 Paul Newman, Actor (Hud - Hombre - Hustler) and racer & popcorn mogul |
Birthday January 26, 1925 Joan Leslie, Actress |
Birthday January 26, 1928 Eartha Kitt, in South Carolina |
Birthday January 26, 1928 Roger Vadim, Director |
Birthday January 26, 1929 Jules Feiffer, cartoonist (Passionella) |
Birthday January 26, 1931 Mary Murphy |
Birthday January 26, 1935 Bob Uecker, Sports personality |
Birthday January 26, 1944 Angela Davis, black activist |
Birthday January 26, 1950 Republic of India born |
Birthday January 26, 1961 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton Oiler |
History January 26, 1500 Pinzon discovers Brazil |
History January 26, 1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit - solves problem before going to bed that same night |
History January 26, 1779 Engagement at Burke County Jail |
History January 26, 1788 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney) |
History January 26, 1788 First Australian penal colony established |
History January 26, 1837 Mich admitted as 26th US state |
History January 26, 1838 Tennessee passes nation's first prohibition law |
History January 26, 1841 Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain |
History January 26, 1861 La becomes 6th state to secede from US |
History January 26, 1863 Joseph Hooker takes over the Army of the Potomac |
History January 26, 1871 American income tax repealed |
History January 26, 1875 Pinkertons maim Frank and Jesse James' mother |
History January 26, 1885 Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum |
History January 26, 1905 World's largest diamond found Cullinan diamond |
History January 26, 1918 Ukraine declares its independence |
History January 26, 1934 Sam Goldwyn buys rights to The Wizard of Oz |
History January 26, 1936 So-called Mad Butcher terrorizes Cleveland |
History January 26, 1939 Franco captures Barcelona |
History January 26, 1945 Audie Murphy wounded |
History January 26, 1945 Soviets liberate Auschwitz |
History January 26, 1946 Indian Republic Day |
History January 26, 1950 India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion |
History January 26, 1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland |
History January 26, 1961 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell |
History January 26, 1961 Kennedy appoints first female presidential physician |
History January 26, 1962 The Twist ends record-setting run |
History January 26, 1970 POW spends 2,000th day in captivity |
History January 26, 1972 North Vietnam rejects U.S. peace proposal |
History January 26, 1974 Cyclone Wanda causes flooding in Australia |
History January 26, 1976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon |
History January 26, 1979 Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died |
History January 26, 1979 The Dukes of Hazzard premieres |
History January 26, 1980 U.S. Olympic Committee votes against Moscow games |
History January 26, 1980 Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game |
History January 26, 1982 Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins |
History January 26, 1984 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders |
History January 26, 1986 Bears beat Patriots in Super Bowl XX |
History January 26, 1986 Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20 |
History January 26, 2005 Bush appoints Rice as secretary of state |
History January 26, 2006 Oprah Winfrey takes James Frey to task for lying |