Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 26

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  Painting of Ali's assassination
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  Audie Murphy
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  Palomar Observatory
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  The dome over the Hale Telescope
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  Siad Barre
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  Ambrose Burnside
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  Arthur Phillip
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  William Bligh
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  Cullinan Diamond
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  Kobe Bryant
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  Apollo Theater in 2019

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Liberation Day in Uganda (1986)	refimprove
1500 – Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reached the north coast of what today is Brazil.	lots of CN tags (4), especially in "Career" section
1531 – A strong earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, and subsequent tsunami caused approximately 30,000 deaths.	doubts about sourcing for the 30,000 deaths figure and possibly the date. See [1]
1545 - The Council of Trent officially separates Roman Catholicism and Protestantism	Refimprove tag is on the Council of Trent page
1699 – The signing of the Treaty of Karlowitz, concluding the Great Turkish War, marked the end of Ottoman control in much of Central Europe and the rise of the Habsburg Monarchy as the region's dominant power.	Too much uncited
1856 – Puget Sound War: United States Marines from the Template:USS defeated Native American forces after an all-day battle with settlers in Seattle, Washington.	refimprove section
1863 – American Civil War: After the disastrous result of the Battle of Fredericksburg and a failed offensive against Robert E. Lee, Union Army General Ambrose Burnside was relieved from command of the Army of the Potomac.	refimprove section
1907 – The [[Lee–Enfield|Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Template:Nowrap]], the second oldest military rifle still in official use, was introduced into British military service.	unreferenced section
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.	refimprove section
1983 – The spreadsheet program [[Lotus 1-2-3|Lotus Template:Nowrap]] was first released, becoming the IBM Personal Computer's first "killer application".	refimprove section
2005 – A man left his vehicle on railroad tracks in Glendale, California, after an aborted suicide attempt, causing a Metrolink train to derail, resulting in 11 deaths and at least 100 injuries.	needs more footnotes
Henry Briggs |d|1630	refimprove
Walter Krueger |b|1881	refimprove section
Khorloogiin Choibalsan |d|1952	unreferenced section
Athanase David |d|1953|	Too much uncited
Aron Anderson |b|1983|	Birthday not cited
Suleman octuplets |b|2009|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 661 – Ali, the fourth Rashidun caliph, was assassinated (depicted) by Ibn Muljim, leading to the end of the caliphate.
• 1564 – Livonian War: A Lithuanian surprise attack resulted in a decisive defeat of numerically superior Russian forces.
• 1700 – An earthquake with a moment magnitude of around 9.0 occurred off the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records of tsunamis.
• 1788 – Captain Arthur Phillip and the British First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson, establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia.
• 1808 – William Bligh, the governor of New South Wales, was deposed in the only military coup in Australian history.
• 1841 – Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point.
• 1885 – Mahdist War: The siege of Khartoum ended as Mahdist forces defeated the Egyptian garrison and captured the city.
• 1905 – The 3,106-carat (621 g) Cullinan Diamond (pictured), the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, was discovered at the Premier Mine in Gauteng, South Africa.
• 1918 – A group of Red Guards hung a red lantern atop the tower of the Helsinki Workers' House, symbolically marking the start of the Finnish Civil War.
• 1934 – Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater in New York City reopened as the Apollo Theater, becoming one of the nation's premier venues for African-American performers.
• 1945 – Audie Murphy engaged in action at the Colmar Pocket that won him a Medal of Honor and made him one of the most famous and decorated U.S. soldiers of [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]].
• 1949 – The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first light.
• 1950 – Indian independence movement: India became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as president and Jawaharlal Nehru as prime minister.
• 1952 – Spontaneous anti-British riots erupted in Cairo following the killings of 50 Egyptian auxiliary police officers the previous day.
• 1966 – The three Beaumont children disappeared from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.
• 1991 – Somali Rebellion: Factions led by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted President Siad Barre.
• 1998 – In a nationally televised press conference, U.S. president Bill Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with intern Monica Lewinsky.
• 2001 – An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least 13,000 people, injured 167,000 others and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes.
• 2009 – Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to the deposal of President Marc Ravalomanana.

• Born/died: | Lady Zhen |b|183 | Georg Mohr |d|1697| Manuel do Cenáculo |d|1814| Charles George Gordon |d|1885| Harry Ricardo |b|1885| Giuseppe Genco Russo |b|1893| Seán MacBride |b|1904| Joan Leslie |b|1925| Angela Davis |b|1944| David Strathairn |b|1949| Wayne Gretzky |b|1961| David Kato |d|2011| Peter Thorburn |d|2021| Bob McCallister |d|2021 | Lindy Delapenha |d|2017| Kobe Bryant |d. 2020|

Notes

• Lick Observatory appears on January 3, so Hale telescope should not appear in the same year
• Drudge Report appears on January 17, so Clinton/Lewinski should not appear in the same year
• Botany Bay appears on January 18, so First Fleet should not appear in the same year

January 26: Australia Day; Laba Festival in China (2026); Republic Day in India Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1926 – Oliver Hutchinson (pictured) appeared on television in inventor John Logie Baird's first successful demonstration of using the technology to show humans.
• 1972 – JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell 10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.
• 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashed while taking off from İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, killing 67 people.
• 2015 – A jet fighter crashed at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
• 2020 – A Sikorsky S-76B helicopter crashed in Calabasas, California, killing all nine people on board, including former basketball player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.