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January 26
1788 - The first European settlers arrived in Sydney, Australia.
1802 - Congress passed an act calling for the establishment of a library within the U.S. Capitol.
1837 - Michigan became the 26th state.
1861 - During the Civil War, Louisiana seceded from the Union.
1870 - Virginia rejoined the Union.
1915 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the Rocky Mountain National Park Act, which created America’s 10th national park.
1950 - India, three years after gaining its independence from Great Britain, formally became a republic.
1962 - The United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon. (The probe ended up missing its target by more than 22,000 miles.)
1979 - Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died in New York at age 70.
1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" opened on Broadway, which would go on to become the longest-running Broadway show of all time.
1992 - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, appearing with his wife Hillary, on CBS' "60 Minutes," acknowledged "causing pain in my marriage," but said past problems were not relevant to the campaign.
1993 - Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic.
1996 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury connected to the Whitewater probe.
1998 - President Bill Clinton forcefully denied having an affair with a former White House intern, telling reporters, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
2001 - A 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indian state of Gujarat, killing more than 20,000 people.
2004 - President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2005 - A man parked his SUV on railroad tracks in Glendale, California, setting off a crash of two commuter trains that killed 11 people. (The SUV’s driver, Juan Alvarez, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 11 consecutive life terms.)
2009 - "Octomom" Nadya Suleman of Whittier, California, gave birth to octuplets conceived by in-vitro fertilization. Suleman was already a mother of six.
2016 - The FBI arrested the leaders of an armed group that was occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks during a traffic stop that left one man, Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, dead.
2017 - Tensions flared between President Donald Trump and Mexico, with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto scrapping a planned visit to Washington and the White House threatening a 20 percent tax on imports to pay for Trump’s proposed wall along the southern border.
2020 - The U.S. consulate in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic, said it would evacuate personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight. Five cases of the new coronavirus were now confirmed in the United States, including new cases in California and Arizona; all involved people who had traveled to Wuhan.
2020 - Eighteen-year-old singer Billie Eilish made history at the Grammy Awards, becoming the youngest to win one of Grammy’s top awards and the first to sweep all four in nearly 40 years.
2021 - The interim chief of the Capitol Police, in prepared testimony to lawmakers, apologized for failing to prepare for what became a violent insurrection on Jan. 6 despite warnings that white supremacists and far-right groups would target Congress.
2021 - The San Francisco school board voted to remove the names of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and others from public schools after officials deemed them unworthy of the honor. (The plan was later suspended.)
Birthdays
22 - Ester Exposito (actress)
30 - Sasha Banks (professional wrestler)
41 - Colin O'Donoghue (actor)
44 - Sarah Rue (actress)
45 - Vince Carter (basketball player)
48 - Matilda Szydagis (actress)
49 - Jennifer Crystal (actress)
50 - Nate Mooney (actor)
55 - Bryan Callen (actor)
58 - Paul Johansson (actor)
61 - Wayne Gretzky (hockey player)
64 - Ellen DeGeneres (actress/talk show host)
73 - David Strathairn (actor)
75 - Richard Portnow (actor)
79 - Jean Knight (singer)
83 - Scott Glenn (actor)
87 - Bob Uecker (sportscaster)
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Today in Sports History - January 26
1924 - Charles Jewtraw of the United States won the 500-meter speed skating. He was the first Gold Medalist at the Winter Olympics.
1956 - Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1960 - Pete Rozelle is elected NFL commissioner.
1963 - The Major League Baseball Rules Committee votes to expand the strike zone.
1985 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers became the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49).
1986 - The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots 46-10 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl XX.
1990 - Steffi Graf won a record 48th consecutive women's professional tennis match.
1991 - Vernon Maxwell of the Houston Rockets becomes the fifth player in NBA history to score 30 points in a quarter, joining Wilt Chamberlain, David Thompson, George Gervin and Michael Jordan.
1991 - Jan Stenerud becomes the first placekicker to be named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1992 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Minneapolis to win Super Bowl XXVI.
1997 - The Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots 35-21 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl XXXI.
2003 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Oakland Raiders 48-21 in San Diego to win Super Bowl XXXVII.
2012 - Capping three days of mourning, some 12,000 people — including Penn State students, fans and football stars — paid tribute to the late Joe Paterno in a campus memorial service that exposed a strong undercurrent of anger over his firing.
2020 - NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven others were killed when their helicopter plunged into a steep hillside in dense morning fog in Southern California; the former Lakers star was 41 years old.
1788 - The first European settlers arrived in Sydney, Australia.
1802 - Congress passed an act calling for the establishment of a library within the U.S. Capitol.
1837 - Michigan became the 26th state.
1861 - During the Civil War, Louisiana seceded from the Union.
1870 - Virginia rejoined the Union.
1915 - President Woodrow Wilson signed the Rocky Mountain National Park Act, which created America’s 10th national park.
1950 - India, three years after gaining its independence from Great Britain, formally became a republic.
1962 - The United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon. (The probe ended up missing its target by more than 22,000 miles.)
1979 - Former Vice President Nelson Rockefeller died in New York at age 70.
1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" opened on Broadway, which would go on to become the longest-running Broadway show of all time.
1992 - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, appearing with his wife Hillary, on CBS' "60 Minutes," acknowledged "causing pain in my marriage," but said past problems were not relevant to the campaign.
1993 - Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic.
1996 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury connected to the Whitewater probe.
1998 - President Bill Clinton forcefully denied having an affair with a former White House intern, telling reporters, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
2001 - A 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indian state of Gujarat, killing more than 20,000 people.
2004 - President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2005 - A man parked his SUV on railroad tracks in Glendale, California, setting off a crash of two commuter trains that killed 11 people. (The SUV’s driver, Juan Alvarez, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 11 consecutive life terms.)
2009 - "Octomom" Nadya Suleman of Whittier, California, gave birth to octuplets conceived by in-vitro fertilization. Suleman was already a mother of six.
2016 - The FBI arrested the leaders of an armed group that was occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks during a traffic stop that left one man, Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, dead.
2017 - Tensions flared between President Donald Trump and Mexico, with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto scrapping a planned visit to Washington and the White House threatening a 20 percent tax on imports to pay for Trump’s proposed wall along the southern border.
2020 - The U.S. consulate in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic, said it would evacuate personnel and some private citizens aboard a charter flight. Five cases of the new coronavirus were now confirmed in the United States, including new cases in California and Arizona; all involved people who had traveled to Wuhan.
2020 - Eighteen-year-old singer Billie Eilish made history at the Grammy Awards, becoming the youngest to win one of Grammy’s top awards and the first to sweep all four in nearly 40 years.
2021 - The interim chief of the Capitol Police, in prepared testimony to lawmakers, apologized for failing to prepare for what became a violent insurrection on Jan. 6 despite warnings that white supremacists and far-right groups would target Congress.
2021 - The San Francisco school board voted to remove the names of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and others from public schools after officials deemed them unworthy of the honor. (The plan was later suspended.)
Birthdays
22 - Ester Exposito (actress)
30 - Sasha Banks (professional wrestler)
41 - Colin O'Donoghue (actor)
44 - Sarah Rue (actress)
45 - Vince Carter (basketball player)
48 - Matilda Szydagis (actress)
49 - Jennifer Crystal (actress)
50 - Nate Mooney (actor)
55 - Bryan Callen (actor)
58 - Paul Johansson (actor)
61 - Wayne Gretzky (hockey player)
64 - Ellen DeGeneres (actress/talk show host)
73 - David Strathairn (actor)
75 - Richard Portnow (actor)
79 - Jean Knight (singer)
83 - Scott Glenn (actor)
87 - Bob Uecker (sportscaster)
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Today in Sports History - January 26
1924 - Charles Jewtraw of the United States won the 500-meter speed skating. He was the first Gold Medalist at the Winter Olympics.
1956 - Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1960 - Pete Rozelle is elected NFL commissioner.
1963 - The Major League Baseball Rules Committee votes to expand the strike zone.
1985 - Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers became the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49).
1986 - The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots 46-10 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl XX.
1990 - Steffi Graf won a record 48th consecutive women's professional tennis match.
1991 - Vernon Maxwell of the Houston Rockets becomes the fifth player in NBA history to score 30 points in a quarter, joining Wilt Chamberlain, David Thompson, George Gervin and Michael Jordan.
1991 - Jan Stenerud becomes the first placekicker to be named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1992 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 in Minneapolis to win Super Bowl XXVI.
1997 - The Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots 35-21 in New Orleans to win Super Bowl XXXI.
2003 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Oakland Raiders 48-21 in San Diego to win Super Bowl XXXVII.
2012 - Capping three days of mourning, some 12,000 people — including Penn State students, fans and football stars — paid tribute to the late Joe Paterno in a campus memorial service that exposed a strong undercurrent of anger over his firing.
2020 - NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven others were killed when their helicopter plunged into a steep hillside in dense morning fog in Southern California; the former Lakers star was 41 years old.