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Today in History - January 26

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January 26

1788 - The first European settlers landed in Sydney, Australia.

1802 - Congress passed an act calling for the establishment of a library within the U.S. Captiol.

1837 - Michigan became the 26th state.

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 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 musical "The Phantom of the Opera" opened on Broadway, where it would go on to become the longest-running show in Broadway history.

1992 - Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, appearing with his wife Hillary, on CBS's "60 Minutes," acknowledged "causing pain in my marriage," but said past problems were not relevant to his campaign.

1993 - Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic.

1994 - A scare occurred during a visit to Sydney, Australia by Britain's Prince Charles as college student David Kang lunched at the prince, firing two blank shots from a starter's pistol. (Kang was later sentenced to 500 hours of community service.)

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 magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked the Indian state of Gujarat, killing more than 20,000 people.

2004 - President Hamid Karazi signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.

2005 - A U.S. Marine helicopter crashed in western Iraq, killing 30 Marines and a Navy medic aboard.

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 - Nadya Suleman gave birth at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in California to six boys and two girls; criticism came after the public learned that the unemployed, single mother had gotten pregnant with the octuplets and six elder children through in vitro fertilization.

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.

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.

Birthdays
23 - Ester Exposito (actress)
29 - Joseph Quinn (actor)
31 - Sasha Banks (professional wrestler)
42 - Colin O'Donoghue (actor)
45 - Sarah Rue (actress)
46 - Vince Carter (basketball player)
50 - Jennifer Crystal (actress)
51 - Nate Mooney (actor)
56 - Bryan Callen (actor)
59 - Paul Johansson (actor)
62 - Wayne Gretzky (hockey player)
65 - Ellen DeGeneres (actress/talk show host)
80 - Jean Knight (singer)
84 - Scott Glenn (actor)
88 - Bob Uecker (actor/sportscaster)


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Today in Sports History - January 26

1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for playing two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics. (He would later have the medals posthumously returned.)

1924 - Charles Jewtraw of the United States won the 500-meter speed skating. He was the first Gold Medalist at the first Winter Olympics.

1951 - Mel Ott and Jimmie Foxx are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1956 - Hank Greenberg and Joe Cronin are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1960 - The Oakland Raiders join the American Football League.

1960 - Pete Rozelle is elected NFL commissioner on the 23rd ballot.

1963 - The MLB Rules Committee votes in favor of expanding the strike zone.

1985 - Wayne Gretzky (Edmonton Oilers) became the first NHL player to score 50 goals in 49 games.

1986 - The Chicago Bears defeat the New England Patriots 46-10 to win Super Bowl XX.

1990 - Steffi Graf won her 48th consecutive tennis match.

1991 - Houston Rockets guard Vernon Maxwell becomes the fourth player in NBA history to score 30 points in a quarter.

1991 - Jan Stenerud becomes the first placekicker elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

1992 - The Washington Redskins defeat the Buffalo Bills 37-24 to win Super Bowl XXVI.

1995 - With a record 6,254,427 ballots cast by fans in NBA All-Star Voting, Detroit's Grant Hill becomes the first rookie to lead all NBA players in All-Star votes received, earning #1 on 1,289,585 ballots.

1997 - The Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots 35-21 to win Super Bowl XXXI.

2003 - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Oakland Raiders 48-21 to win Super Bowl XXXVII.

2012 - Ashley Wagner became the first woman since Michelle Kwan in 2005 to win back-to-back titles in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, holding off up-and-comer Gracie Gold in Omaha, Neb.

2020 - NBA legend 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.
 
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