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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.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Republic Day in India (1950); refimprove section
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}}, neutrality disputed, unreferenced section
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. Phillip: refimprove section, unreferenced section; First Fleet: lead too long, needs copyediting, refimprove 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}}
1934Nazi 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}}
1950Indian independence movement: India officially became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as its first president. refimprove
1983 – The spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3 was first released, becoming the IBM Personal Computer's first "killer application". refimprove, unreferenced section
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. needs more footnotes

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January 26: Tu Bishvat (Judaism, 2013); Australia Day (1788); Liberation Day in Uganda (1986)

Palomar Observatory

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