Today is Tuesday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2010. There are 339 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Jan. 26, 1950, India officially proclaimed itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad took the oath of office as president.
ON THIS DATE
In 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney.
In 1925, actor Paul Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
In 1960, National Football League team owners chose Pete Rozelle to be the new commissioner, succeeding the late Bert Bell.
In 1962, the United States launched Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon, but the probe missed its target by more than 22,000 miles.
In 2005, a U.S. Marine helicopter crashed in western Iraq, killing 30 Marines and a Navy medic aboard. A man parked his SUV on railroad tracks in Glendale, Calif., setting off a crash of two commuter trains that killed 11 people. (The SUV’s driver, Juan Alvarez, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 11 consecutive life terms.)
In 2009, Nadya Suleman gave birth at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in California to the world’s longest-surviving set of octuplets.
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