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Day Of The Week: January 26
January 26, 2025 is the 26th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 26
- 1565 –Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
- 1924 –Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
- 1930 –The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
- 1949 –The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
- 1950 –The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
- 1961 –John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
- 1966 –The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
- 1978 –The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
- 2005 –Glendale train crash: Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
- 2028 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Monkey in Chinese astrology.
Who were born on January 26?
- 1722 –Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
- 1891 –Frank Costello, Italian-born American gangster (d. 1973)
- 1893 –Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
- 1915 –William Hopper, American actor (d. 1970)
- 1919 –Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur. (d. 2004)
- 1936 –Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
- 1947 –Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
- 1979 –Sara Rue, American actress
- 1986 –Gerald Green, American basketball player
- 1987 –Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
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