TODAY HISTORY LESSON: JANUARY 26
1482 “Pentateuch” the Jewish Bible is 1st printed as a book in Bologna, Italy
1500 Vicente Yáñez Pinzón discovered Brazil.
1564 The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli’s 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1699 The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks.
1784 In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the eagle as the symbol of America. He wanted the symbol to be the turkey.
1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day
1789 John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter’s church (Bronx)
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.
1838 Tennessee becomes 1st state to prohibit alcohol
1861 Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1871 US income tax repealed
1875 Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb.
1905 The World’s largest diamond, Cullinan Diamond weighed 3106.75 carats (621.35 g or 1.37 lb) and has an estimated value of 2 billion USD. was found in South Africa
1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established
1930 Cleveland’s Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
1934 Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system.
1950 India becomes a republic
1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker’s “Twist” is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
1964 Eighty-four people are arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta.
1972 In Hermsdorf, Czechoslovakia, a JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight crashed after the detonation of a bomb in the forward cargo hold killing 27 people. The bomb was believed to have been placed on the plane by a Croatian extremist group. Vesna Vulovic, a stewardess, survived after falling 33,000 feet in the tail section. She broke both legs and became paralyzed from the waist down.
1979 “The Dukes of Hazzard” premieres on CBS
1996 U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury concerning the Whitewater probe.
1998 President Bill Clinton says “I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”
1999 Saddam Hussein vowed revenge against the U.S. in response to air-strikes that reportedly killed civilians. The strikes were U.S. planes defending themselves against anti-aircraft fire.
2004 President Hamid Karzai signed the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2005 Condoleezza Rice is appointed to the post of secretary of state. The post makes her the highest ranking African-American woman ever to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
