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Anniversary on the 26th of January 0069

Anniversary
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100 years anniversary
26 Jan 1924   Warren Frank Benson: Composer
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26 Jan 1924   Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
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26 Jan 1924   Saint Petersburg, Russia, is renamed Leningrad.
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26 Jan 1924   Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician; Mayor of Dallas (d. 1998)
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26 Jan 1924   Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2014)
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26 Jan 1924   Warren Frank Benson composer
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26 Jan 1924   Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
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75 years anniversary
26 Jan 1949   Derek Holt: Rocker (Climax Blues Band)
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26 Jan 1949   Paul Nurse: Dr / Director-General elect (Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
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26 Jan 1949   Victor Fleming: Director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65
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26 Jan 1949   WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
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26 Jan 1949   The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
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26 Jan 1949   David Strathairn, American actor
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26 Jan 1949   Jonathan Carroll, American author
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26 Jan 1949   birth Derek Holt, Climax Blues Band who had the 1976 UK No.10 & 1977 US No.3 single 'Couldn't Get It Right'.
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26 Jan 1949   Derek Holt rocker (Climax Blues Band)
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26 Jan 1949   Paul Nurse doctor/director-General elect (Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
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26 Jan 1949   Victor Fleming director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65
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26 Jan 1949   WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
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50 years anniversary
26 Jan 1974   S v Vegesack: Writer, dies at 85
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26 Jan 1974   Wiktor Labunski: Composer, dies at 78
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26 Jan 1974   Rokia Traoré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist
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26 Jan 1974   Mud were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Nicky Chinn & Mike Chapman song 'Tiger Feet', the group's first of three UK No.1's.
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26 Jan 1974   Ringo Starr went to No.1 on the US singles chart with his version of the Johnny Burnette 1960 hit 'Your Sixteen', a No.3 hit in the UK.
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26 Jan 1974   S v Vegesack writer, dies at 85
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26 Jan 1974   Wiktor Labunski composer, dies at 78
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20 years anniversary
26 Jan 2004   A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
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26 Jan 2004   President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
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26 Jan 2004   Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
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26 Jan 2004   John Lydon was one of ten contestants to take part in the latest I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here UK TV show set in the Australian outback. The former Sex Pistols singer was seen by 11 million viewers on the first night covered in bird seed being pecked by giant ostriches. Lydon who was paid £25,000 ($42,500) to appear in the show, but walked off the jungle set after four days.
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15 years anniversary
26 Jan 2009   Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
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10 years anniversary
26 Jan 2014   José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (b. 1939)
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26 Jan 2014   Paula Gruden, Slovenian-Australian poet and translator (b. 1921)
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26 Jan 2014   Tom Gola, American basketball player, coach, and politician (b. 1933)
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