January 26: Australia Day (1788); Republic Day in India (1950)
Bill Clinton's press conference
- 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate was effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last Rashidun caliph.
- 1700 – The Cascadia earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 9.0, took place off the Pacific coast of the American Northwest, as evidenced by Japanese records of tsunamis.
- 1841 – Commodore James Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for Great Britain at Possession Point.
- 1952 – Spontaneous anti-British riots erupted in Cairo following the killings of 50 Egyptian auxiliary police the day before.
- 1998 – In a nationally televised press conference (video featured), U.S. President Bill Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with intern Monica Lewinsky.
Lady Zhen (b. 183) · Charles George Gordon (d. 1885) · Olga Tufnell (b. 1905)
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