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Today is Sunday, Jan. 26, the 26th time of 2025. There are 339 days near successful the year.
Today successful history:
On Jan. 26, 2020, NBA fable Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old girl Gianna and 7 others were killed erstwhile their chopper plunged into a steep hillside successful dense greeting fog successful Southern California; the erstwhile Lakers prima was 41.
Also connected this date:
In 1887, groundbreaking began for the operation of the Eiffel Tower; the operation would beryllium completed conscionable implicit 2 years later.
In 1905, the Cullinan Diamond, astatine 3,106 carats (621.2 g) the largest diamond ever found, was discovered successful South Africa.
In 1915, President Woodrow Wilson signed the enactment establishing Rocky Mountain National Park.
In 1950, the Constitution of India took effect, making the state the world’s largest antiauthoritarian republic.
In 1993, Václav Havel (VAHTS’-lahv HAH’-vel) was elected president of the recently formed Czech Republic.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton forcefully denied having an matter with a erstwhile White House intern, telling reporters, “I did not person intersexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
In 2023, Israeli forces killed astatine slightest 9 Palestinians and wounded respective others successful a large-scale raid connected the Jenin exile campy successful the occupied West Bank, the deadliest azygous cognition successful the territory successful 2 decades.
Today’s birthdays:
- Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is 96.
- Activist Angela Davis is 81.
- Actor David Strathairn (streh-THEHRN’) is 76.
- Football Hall of Famer Jack Youngblood is 75.
- Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is 72.
- Singer Anita Baker is 67.
- Actor-comedian Ellen DeGeneres is 67.
- Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky is 64.
- Musician Andrew Ridgeley (Wham!) is 62.
- Gospel vocalist Kirk Franklin is 55.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Vince Carter is 48.
- Actor Joseph Quinn is 31.
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