Daily Calendar for Monday, January 26, 2026

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Joseph Brown (inventor) – 1810
Julia Dent Grant (U.S. First Lady from 1869 to 1877; was born near St. Louis, Missouri) – 1826
Mary Elizabeth Dodge (author) – 1831
Elisabet Ney (sculptress) – 1833
Douglas MacArthur (army officer) – 1880
Sean MacBride (Irish statesman; awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his human rights work) – 1904
Maria Augusta von Trapp (musician) – 1905
Phillip Jose Farmer (author) – 1918
Anne Jeffreys (actress) – 1923
Paul Newman (American actor, director, and philanthropist; was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio) – 1925
Richard Keith Downey (agricultural scientist) – 1927
Bob Uecker (baseball player & broadcaster) – 1935
Gene Siskel (movie critic) – 1946
Eddie Van Halen (musician) – 1955
Ellen DeGeneres (comedienne & actress) – 1958
Anita Baker (singer) – 1958
Wayne Gretzky (hockey player) – 1961

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (U.S. vice president) – 1979
Paul "Bear" Bryant (football coach) – 1983
Adella Wotherspoon (the last survivor of one of the deadliest disasters in New York history— the burning and sinking of the steamboat General Slocum in June 1904. She died at age 100, the youngest survivor having become the oldest) – 2004
Robert Hegyes (actor) – 2012
Kobe Bryant (basketball player) – 2020
Cloris Leachman (actress) – 2021

First settlers, including 717 convicts, arrived at Sydney, Australia – 1788
Michigan admitted as the 26th state of the Union – 1837
U.S. Congress established Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado – 1915
The Red Ensign design was approved as the official flag for Canadian government buildings, replacing the previous Blue Ensign. – 1924
Temple Beth Israel of Meridian, Mississippi, became the first Jewish congregation to allow women to perform functions of a rabbi – 1951
Canadian Coast Guard officially established – 1962
The Dukes of Hazzard made its television debut – 1979
Raiders became the first to play in four separate decades of Super Bowls – 2003