TODAY is Tuesday, January 26, the 26th day of 2010. There are 339 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:
1788: A British fleet, carrying the first settlers from England including a group of convicts, arrives in Sydney.
1802: The Cisalpine Republic is renamed the Italian Republic with Napoleon Bonaparte as president.
1808: Officers of the New South Wales Corps arrest Governor William Bligh (former skipper of The Bounty) in the Rum Rebellion.
1823: Edward Jenner, who is credited with introducing vaccination against smallpox, dies.
1841: The British flag is raised on Hong Kong island, six days after China agrees to cede it to Britain.
1875: The electric dental drill is patented by its inventor, George F Green, of Kalamazoo.
1891: paper bag printing Nikolaus August Otto, German engineer and developer of the four- stroke internal combustion engine, dies.
1905: The world's largest diamond, the Cullinan, is discovered near Pretoria, weighing 3106 carats.
1924: In the Soviet Union, the second All- Union Congress of Soviets agrees to preserve the body of Lenin and to change the name of Petrograd to Leningrad.
1939: In the Spanish Civil War, Franco and his forces capture Barcelona.
1942: The first American expeditionary force in Europe during World War II goes ashore in Northern Ireland.
1950: India is formally proclaimed a republic within the Commonwealth.
1965: The military seizes power in South Vietnam, ousting the civilian government of Tran Van Huong; Hindi becomes the official language of India, leading to riots in the south of the country.
pandora style beads1973: Edward G Robinson, US film actor, dies.
1984: A record one-day total of 84.8mm of rain caused extensive surface flooding in the streets of Invercargill, Riverton, Otautau, Tuatapere and Bluff. A state of emergency was declared in the early hours of January 27. Around 1200 homes were left uninhabitable and more than 4000 people had to be evacuated. No human lives were lost. The total damage bill was $55 million.
1998: US President Bill Clinton denies having an affair with a White House intern, telling reporters, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
2000: More than a year after a DNA test suggests that Thomas Jefferson may have had a son by his slave Sally Hemings, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation acknowledges that he Replica prada wholesale probably was the father of one, if not all six, of her children.
2001: An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale strikes the western Indian state of Gujurat, killing around 18,000 people.
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