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Saturday, January 26, 2013

This will be 26th day of the year and 339 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 15 Shevat 5773
Chinese calendar — the 15th day of the 12th month of 4710 (Ren Chen)
Islamic calendar — (note)

January 26 Birthdays

Douglas MacArthur
1880–1964, American General.

Charles XIV
king of Sweden and Norway (1763)

Bessie Coleman
aviator (1893)

Paul Newman
actor (1925)

Jules Feiffer
cartoonist and writer (1927)

Angela Davis
activist (1944)

David Strathairn
actor (1949)

Ellen DeGeneres
comedienne, actress (1958)

Wayne Gretzky
hockey player (1961)

January 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

January 26 in History

1788

The first European settlers landed in Sydney, Australia.

1802

Congress passed an act calling for establishment of a library within the US Capitol.

1837

Michigan became the 26th state in the United States.

1950

India, three years after gaining its independence from the United Kingdom, formally became a republic.

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. It would go on to become the longest-running Broadway show.

1993

Vaclav Havel was elected president of the new Czech Republic.

2001

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

2004

President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.