TODAY IN HISTORY
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January 26th - 26th Day of the Year
1500
Spanish explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon reaches the northeastern coast of Brazil during a voyage under his command.
1699
The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks.
1720
Guilio Alberoni is ordered out of Spain after his abortive attempt to restore his country's empire.
1788
A fleet of ships carrying convicts from England lands at Sydney Cove in Australia. The day is since known as Australia's national day.
1861
Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863
President Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1875
Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb.
1885
General "Chinese" Gordon is killed on the palace steps in Khartoum by Sudanese Mahdists in Africa.
1915
The Rocky Mountain National Park is established.
1918
The former Russian state of Ukraine declares its total independence.
1924
Petrograd is renamed Leningrad.
1926
John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London.
1934
- Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system.
- The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlam, New York City.
1942
American Expeditionary Force lands in Northern Ireland.
1943
The first OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent parachutes behind Japanese lines in Burma.
1945
The most decorated man of the war, American Lt. Audie Murphy, is wounded in France.
1950
The Indian constitution takes effect, making the Republic of India the most populous democracy in the world.
1961
President John F. Kennedy appoints Janet Travell, 59, as his personal physician, making her the first woman in history to hold the post.
1962
Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. However, it misses the Moon by 22,000 miles.
1964
Eighty-four people are arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta.
1969
California is declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides.
1970
U.S. Navy Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. spends his 2,000th day in captivity in Southeast Asia.
1980
At the request of President Jimmy Carter, the U.S. Olympic Committee votes to ask the International Olympic Committee to cancel or move the upcoming Moscow Olympics. The action was in response to the Soviet military invasion of Afghanistan the previous month.
1998
On television, President Bill Clinton denies having "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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.
2009
Nadya Suleman gives birth to the world's first surviving octuplets.
2020
A helicopter carrying former pro basketball player Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others crashes in Calabasas, California, roughly 30 miles north of Los Angeles; everyone onboard dies.
Spanish explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon reaches the northeastern coast of Brazil during a voyage under his command.
1699
The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks.
1720
Guilio Alberoni is ordered out of Spain after his abortive attempt to restore his country's empire.
1788
A fleet of ships carrying convicts from England lands at Sydney Cove in Australia. The day is since known as Australia's national day.
1861
Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863
President Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1875
Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb.
1885
General "Chinese" Gordon is killed on the palace steps in Khartoum by Sudanese Mahdists in Africa.
1915
The Rocky Mountain National Park is established.
1918
The former Russian state of Ukraine declares its total independence.
1924
Petrograd is renamed Leningrad.
1926
John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London.
1934
- Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system.
- The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlam, New York City.
1942
American Expeditionary Force lands in Northern Ireland.
1943
The first OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent parachutes behind Japanese lines in Burma.
1945
The most decorated man of the war, American Lt. Audie Murphy, is wounded in France.
1950
The Indian constitution takes effect, making the Republic of India the most populous democracy in the world.
1961
President John F. Kennedy appoints Janet Travell, 59, as his personal physician, making her the first woman in history to hold the post.
1962
Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. However, it misses the Moon by 22,000 miles.
1964
Eighty-four people are arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta.
1969
California is declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides.
1970
U.S. Navy Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. spends his 2,000th day in captivity in Southeast Asia.
1980
At the request of President Jimmy Carter, the U.S. Olympic Committee votes to ask the International Olympic Committee to cancel or move the upcoming Moscow Olympics. The action was in response to the Soviet military invasion of Afghanistan the previous month.
1998
On television, President Bill Clinton denies having "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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.
2009
Nadya Suleman gives birth to the world's first surviving octuplets.
2020
A helicopter carrying former pro basketball player Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others crashes in Calabasas, California, roughly 30 miles north of Los Angeles; everyone onboard dies.
The Shelby County Historical Society would like to thank the following area businesses for their support:
KNOD, Harlan Newspaper, Hy-Vee, Milk & Honey, Farm Table Delivery, Nelson Farm Supply, Shelby County Physical Therapy, Shelby County State Bank, State Farm-EJ Leinen, Town & Country Credit Union, Ouren Real Estate, and ThinkSpace IT.
KNOD, Harlan Newspaper, Hy-Vee, Milk & Honey, Farm Table Delivery, Nelson Farm Supply, Shelby County Physical Therapy, Shelby County State Bank, State Farm-EJ Leinen, Town & Country Credit Union, Ouren Real Estate, and ThinkSpace IT.
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