Unix Timestamp: 948844800
Wednesday, January 26. 2000, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fires top airport security officials, two days after a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport killed 35 people and injured 130. //edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/01/26/russia.airport.explosions/index.html (CNN) //en.rian.ru/russia/20110126/162311278.html (RIA Novosti)

Icelandic Prime Minister Geir Haarde announces the collapse of his coalition government in the wake of the country's financial crisis. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7851415.stm (BBC)

A whale explodes in Tainan City, Taiwan, while being transported through the town to a university for a necropsy.//web.archive.org/web/20050909142010///www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2004/01/27/1075168255.htmTaiwan News Online /Sperm whale explodes in Tainan City

American Football Super Bowl XXXVII: The Ta Bay Buccaneers defeated the Oakland Raiders, 48–21.

An earthquake hits Gujarat!confirmed here, India, killing more than 12,000.

A 50-year-old DC-3 crashes near Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela, killing 24.

An earthquake hits Gujarat, India. More than 20,000 deaths.

Whitewater scandal: U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies before a grand jury.

A man fires 2 blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.

Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

In South Africa, Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the Inkatha Freedom Party agree to end the violence that had plagued relations between the two organizations.

A deadly earthquake kills at least 1,200 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A USAirBoeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest AirlinesFairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.

Siad Barre is overthrown. Somalia enters civil war.

Siad Barre is succeeded by Ali Mahdi Muhammad in Somalia.

Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.//www.historyorb.com/countries/egypt?p=3 Historyorb.com

Katimavik is founded as a volunteer service organization for Canadian youths.

Immaculata University defeats the University of Maryland 80-48 in the first nationally televised women's basketball game in the United States.//news.google.com/newspapers?id=TYZPAAAAIBAJsjid=iQUEAAAAIBAJpg=3918,4742960dq=immaculatahl=en Women Cagers Make TV Debut, "Ocala (FL) Star-Banner, January 27, 1975, p2B

Immaculata University defeats the University of Maryland 80-48 in the first nationally televised women's basketball game in the United States.//news.google.com/newspapers?id=TYZPAAAAIBAJsjid=iQUEAAAAIBAJpg=3918,4742960dq=immaculatahl=en Women Cagers Make TV Debut, "Ocala (FL) Star-Banner, January 27, 1975, p2B

Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, was declared as a Federal Territory.

Fire breaks out in the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil 177 die, 293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries.

Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (37th government, partner MSP )

Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.

Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.

The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000 KVA, is completed and placed in operation.

Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording Long Black Limousine thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums "From Elvis in Memphis" and "Back in Memphis". The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles Suspicious Minds, In the Ghetto and Kentucky Rain.

Fourteen men, nine of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.

The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty.

The Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of the British steel industry.

"Apollo 1": U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

Anti-Hindi agitations break out in India, because of which Hindi does not get National Language status and remains one of the 23 official languages of India.

The annual telecasts of "The Wizard of Oz" resume after being temporarily discontinued in 1963. The reason for the film's not being shown that year is not made public, but it is possible that it was because of the recent assassination of President John F. Kennedy. If the then-established pattern of Christmas-season showings of the film had continued in 1963, the movie would have had to be shown in early December, only two weeks after the President's death.

France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations.

U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

The Australia Day shootings rock Perth, Western Australia 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by Eric Edgar Cooke.

Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon it later misses the Moon by 22,000 miles.

John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician, the first woman to hold this appointment.

The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

The 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

India promulgates its constitution, forming a republic, and Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first president.

Australian citizenship comes into being and Constitution of India was prepared.

Teigin poison case: A man masquerading as a doctor poisons 12 of 16 bank employees of the Tokyo branch of Imperial Bank and takes the money artist Sadamichi Hirasawa is later sentenced to death for the crime, but is never executed.

WWII: Infantry action at Holtzwihr, France, for which Audie Murphy is awarded the Medal of Honor.

WWII: The first American forces arrive in Europe, landing in Northern Ireland.

Brisbane, Australia swelters through its hottest day ever, 43.2 degrees Celsius (109.76 Fahrenheit).

The U.S. state of Michigan celebrates its Centennial Anniversary of statehood.

The Soviet Union executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism.

The Ohio River floods.

The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence).

The volcanic islandAnak Krakatau appears.

John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.

Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) is renamed Leningrad.

Italian forces occupy Misrata in Libya. The reconquest of Libya begins.

The sea defences at the English village of Hallsands are breached, leading to all but one of the houses becoming uninhabitable.

The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.

The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine.

The Labor League Conference opens in Sydney, Australia, with plans to form a Federal Labor Party. This is spelled Labor even in Australia.

Troops loyal to the Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad conquer Khartoum.

Reconstruction: Virginia rejoins the Union.

American Civil War: Louisiana secedes from the Union.

February ndash The Tintic War breaks out in Utah.

The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.

Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.

First Battle of Seattle: Marines from the drive off American Indian attackers after an all day battle with settlers.

The Point No Point Treaty is signed in the Washington Territory.

Britain occupies Hong Kong. Later in the year, the first census of the island records a population of about 7,500.

February ndash Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist" begins publication in serial form in London.

Michigan becomes the 26th state admitted to the United States.

Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon he dies only two months later.

Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte premiered in Vienna.

Mozart\\'sopera Cosi Fan Tutte premiered in Vienna.

Australia Day: Eleven ships of the First Fleet from Botany Bay, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, land at Sydney Cove (which will become Sydney), Australia, where he determines to establish the British prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.

Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.

"approx." 9 p.m.) ndash Cascadia earthquake: One of the largest earthquakes known ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island spreading along more than 600 miles (966 km) of North America's West Coast to Cape Mendocino in northern California. The magnitude of the earthquake is estimated as between 8.7 and 9.2. Houses in First Nations communities on Vancouver Island collapse and an entire village on its west coast is destroyed with no survivors.Recorded in oral traditions of indigenous peoples in North America. The earthquake triggers an Orphan Tsunami which hits Japan approximately 10 hours later and is recorded as flooding fields and washing away houses.

Treaty of Karlowitz is concluded. The Republic of Venice, Poland and Austria sign a peace treaty with the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Turks cede to Austria all their former territories in Transylvania, Slavonia, Croatia and the whole of Hungary except for the Banat of Temesvar. The Peloponnese and Dalmatia are ceded to Venice. Large parts of the Ukraine are ceded to Poland. The treaty marks a significant stage in the decline of the Ottoman Empire that has dominated eastern Europe since the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

March ndash End of the severe frost in Britain, starting the previous December, during which the Thames was frozen in London, and the sea as far as

Marcantonio Giustinian is elected Doge of Venice.

FebruaryndashAugust ndash Explorer Abel Tasman's second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia.

First English Civil War ndash Battle of Nantwich: The Parliamentarians defeat the Royalists, allowing them to end the 6-week Siege of Nantwich in Cheshire, England.

Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.

The Battle of Talikota, a watershed battle fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Deccan sultanates. The last Hindu kingdom in South India ended.

Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake in which thousands die.

King Edward III of England is declared King of France.

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor visits Pope Gregory VII as a penitent, asking him remove sentence of excommunication.