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Subject: Today In History Jan 26
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:05:33 EST
Jan 26, 1763 Happy Birthday Charles XIV French marshall, king of Sweden &
Norway
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Jan 26, 1804 Happy Birthday Eugane "Marie Joseph" Sue France, novelist
(Wandering Jew)
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Jan 26, 1109 Albericus of Cîteaux French saint, dies
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Jan 26, 1706 Guillaume Poitevin composer, dies at 59
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Jan 26, 1795 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach composer, dies at 62
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Jan 26, 1824 Edward Jenner discoverer (vaccination), dies
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Jan 26, 66AD 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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Jan 26, 1340 English king Edward III proclaimed king of France
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Jan 26, 1531 Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
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Jan 26, 1789 John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter's church
(Bronx)
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Jan 26, 1802 Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
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Jan 26 Arkansas : General Douglas MacArthur Day
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Jan 26 Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran : Memorial of SS
Timothy & Titus, companions of Paul
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Jan 26 Old Roman Catholic : Feast of St Polycarp,
bishop/martyr
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Jan 26, 1564 Following the closing of the Council of Trent, Pius IV ratified
its enactments by the bull "Benedictus Deus." Included among the Tridentine
decisions were decrees concerning the creation of an Index of Prohibited
Books (a list of condemned authors and their works).
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Jan 26, 1779 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his
journal: 'We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so
rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.'
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January 26
1784 - Ben Franklin wrote to his daughter to tell her that he was unhappy
that the bald eagle had been chosen as the national bird of the United States.
He mentioned that he believed the turkey would have been a much more
respectable choice. In a few days, Ben received a letter from his daughter. “Oh boy!
Oh boy!” he exclaimed. When he opened it, he read these touching words: “
Dear Dad, Sorry about the eagle thing. Go fly a kite!” And so he did. (The
rest, is history. Well, part of it is. The turkey part is true. The rest, is
made up.)
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Jan 26, 1837 - 1837 - 32 years and 15 days after Michigan was organized as
a territory, it became the 26th state of the United States of America. Named
Michigan after the American Indian word, Michigama, meaning great or large
lake, Michigan borders four of the Great Lakes, and is divided into two
peninsulas by the Straits of Mackinac that connect Lakes Michigan and Huron. The
two peninsulas are recognized in the state motto: If you seek a pleasant
peninsula, look around you. In Latin: Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice
(sounds like Latin words that someone made up because someone somewhere decided
that state mottos have to be written in Latin). Michigan is nicknamed the
Wolverine State (although wolverines are very rare there) and/or the Great Lake
State (its shores touch four of the five Great Lakes). The state bird is the
robin; the state flower: apple blossom; state tree: white pine; state fish:
trout; state gem: Isle Royal Greenstone aka Chlorastrolite. This gemstone
wasn't enough for Michigan. It had to have a real stone, too ... the Petoskey
stone. The state flag, which is blue charged with the arms of the state, waves
over the state capital of Lansing. (And in Latin that's
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Jan 26, 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Captain
Arthur Phillip, landed in what is present-day Sydney. The establishment of an
Australian prison colony was meant to ease the overcrowding of British prisons;
the party of settlers included 700 convicts.
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Jan 26, 1681, two women were hanged in Scotland for insulting the king's
name.
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Jan 26, 1697, Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit
problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night.
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Jan 26, 1716: CHEROKEE Chief Caesar has told the English in South Carolina
that he would never fight them. He also told the Europeans that they had
nothing to fear from the CREEKs, because they wanted peace, too. He offered to
arrange for leading CREEKs to go to Charles Town to arrange a peace. Today, 16
CREEK and YAMASSEE representatives arrive at the CHEROKEE village of Tugaloo
in northeastern Georgia. The CREEKs and the YAMASSEE know of the CHEROKEE's
desire to remain neutral, or at peace. Rather than talking about peace, the
representatives urge the CHEROKEEs to join them in their plan to attack the
South Carolina settlements. This so angers the CHEROKEEs, that the
representatives are killed.
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