26 Januar

The **26t o Januar** is the 26t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 339 days ti come (340 in lowp years).

## Events

* 1700 - A yirdquauk hits the present-day Northwast o the Unitit States.
* 1788 - The first convicts land at Botany Bay, present-day Sydney, Australie.
* 1837 - Michigan becomes the 26t state o the Unitit States.
* 1861 - Louisiana secedes frae the Unitit States.
* 1870 - Virginie rejyns the Unitit States.
* 1871 - Roum becomes the caipital ceety o the Kinrick o Italy.
* 1905 - The "Cullinan Diamond" is found at the Premier Mine naur Pretoria, Sooth Africae.
* 1924 - Saunt Petersburg is renamed Leningrad.
* 1930 - The Indian Naitional Congress declares 26 Januar as independence day.
* 1950 - Indie becomes a republic.
* 1956 - Stairt o the Winter Olympic Gemmes in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
* 1965 - Hindi becomes an offeecial leid o Indie.
* 2001 - A strong yirdquauk hits Gujarat, Indie, killin 20,000 fowk.
* 2005 - Condoleezza Rice becomes Unitit States Secretar o State.
* 2009 - The Icelandic govrenment an bankin system collapse.
* 2015 - Alexis Tsipras becomes Prime meenister o Greece.
* 2017 - Alexander Van der Bellen becomes Preses o Austrick.
* 2019 - Naomi Osaka o Japan wins the Australian Open weemen's singles teetle agin Petra Kvitova, makkin her the first Asie player wi the Nummer Ane warld rankin.
* 2020 - A helicopter crashes in Calabasas, Californie, killin 9 fowk, incluidin basketbaw starn Kobe Bryant an his dochter Gianna.
* 2021 - COVID-19 pandemic: The recordit COVID-19 daith toll in the Unitit Kinrick exceeds 100,000.
* 2021 - Kaja Kallas becomes the first female Prime meenister o Estonie.
* 2021 - Antony Blinken becomes Unitit States Secretar o State.

## Births

* 1763 - Charles XIV John o Swaden (d. 1844)
* 1855 - McKinnon Wood, Breetish politeecian (d. 1927)
* 1880 - Douglas MacArthur, American general (d. 1964)
* 1911 - Polykarp Kusch, German-American pheesicist (d. 1993)
* 1918 - Nicolae Ceausescu, Preses o Romanie (d. 1989)
* 1924 - Alice Babs, Swadish sangster an actress (d. 2014)
* 1925 - Paul Newman, American actor an businessman (d. 2008)
* 1941 - Arturo Di Modica, Italian-American artist (d. 2021)
* 1946 - Michel Delpech, French sangster (d. 2016)
* 1950 - Jörg Haider, Austrick politeecian (d. 2008)
* 1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Dens politeecian
* 1955 - Eddie Van Halen, Dutch-American muisicker (Van Halen) (d. 2020)
* 1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, American comedian, telly host an actress
* 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1962 - John Brown, Scots fitbawer
* 1963 - José Mourinho, Portuguese fitbaw manager
* 1973 - Brendan Rodgers, Northren Erse fitbaw manager
* 1981 - Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan violinist, componer an conductor
* 1987 - Sebastian Giovinco, Italian fitbawer
* 1990 - Peter Sagan, Slovak road bicycle racer
* 1990 - Sergio Pérez, Mexican racin driver

## Daiths

* 1823 − Edward Jenner, Inglish medicinar (b. 1749)
* 1850 - Francis Jeffrey, Laird Jeffrey, Scots juidge an leeterar creetic (b. 1773)
* 1878 - Kirkpatrick Macmillan, Scots blacksmith an inventor (b. 1812)
* 1908 - Alexander Mann, Scots penter (b. 1853)
* 1947 - John Flett, Scots geologist (b. 1869)
* 1979 - Nelson Rockefeller, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1908)
* 2005 - Jackie Henderson, Scots fitbawer (b. 1932)
* 2014 - José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican writer (b. 1939)
* 2017 - Mike Connors, American actor (b. 1925)
* 2020 - Kobe Bryant, American basketbaw player (b. 1978)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o Australie
* Republic Day (Indie)
* Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)
* Ingineer's Day (Panama)
* Liberation Day (Uganda)
* Warld Customs Day