Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 26
This is a list of selected January 26 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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| 1565 – The Deccan sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire at the Battle of Talikota in present-day Karnataka, ending the last great Hindu kingdom in South India. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 1700 – The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the Pacific coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records of tsunamis. | original research |
| 1788 – Captain Arthur Phillip and the British First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson in present-day Sydney, establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia. | {{refimprove section}}, {{unreferenced section}} |
| 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found at 3,106.75 carats (621.350 g), was discovered at the Premier Mine in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1934 – Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic signed the German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact, pledging to resolve their problems through bilateral negotiations and to forgo armed conflict for a period of ten years. | {{more footnotes}} |
| 1983 – The spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3 was first released, becoming the IBM Personal Computer's first "killer application". | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1500 – Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reached the north coast of what today is Brazil.
- 1808 – Governor of New South Wales William Bligh was deposed by the New South Wales Corps in the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's recorded history.
- 1856 – Puget Sound War: United States Marines from the USS Decatur defeated Native American forces after an all-day battle with settlers in Seattle, Washington.
- 1918 – A group of Red Guards hung a red lantern atop the tower of Helsinki Workers' Hall to symbolically mark the start of the Finnish Civil War.
- 1949 – The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first light.
- 1952 – Spontaneous anti-British riots erupted in Cairo following the killings of 50 Egyptian auxiliary police the day before.
- 1988 – Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera, based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City, becoming the longest-running Broadway musical of all time.
- 1991 – Factions led by warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted List of Presidents of Somalia Siad Barre from office.
- 2005 – A man left his vehicle on railroad tracks in Glendale, California, after an aborted suicide attempt, causing a commuter train to derail, resulting in 11 deaths and at least 100 injuries.
Notes
- Timeline of the 2011 Egyptian revolution under Hosni Mubarak's rule used on January 25, so Cairo Fire should not be used in the same year
January 26: Australia Day (1788); Republic Day in India (1950); Liberation Day in Uganda (1986)
- 1841 – Commodore Sir James Bremer (pictured) raised the Union Jack at Possession Point and formally claimed Hong Kong as a colony for the British Empire.
- 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III, the second oldest military rifle still in official use, was introduced into British military service.
- 1950 – Indian independence movement: India officially became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as its first president.
- 1998 – In a nationally televised press conference, U.S. President Bill Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with intern Monica Lewinsky.
- 2009 – Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to deposing of President Marc Ravalomanana.