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Events on January 26

• 1788 With the arrival of the First Fleet, the British establish the first penal colony in Australia at Sydney Cove, where their first white settlers arrive under the command of Arthur Phillip.
• 1790 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Così fan tutte (Thus Do All), based on a text by Lorenzo Da Ponte, premieres at the Vienna Burgtheater.
• 1911 At the Royal Opera House in Dresden, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres under the direction of Ernst von Schuch. The libretto was written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who dedicated it to his friend Harry Graf Kessler.
• 1924 The city of Petrograd is renamed Leningrad by the Second Congress of Soviets of the USSR, thereby permanently honoring the late revolutionary and founder of the state, Lenin.
• 1956 The VII Olympic Winter Games are opened in Cortina d’Ampezzo.
• 1966 FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt is founded from the football departments of Turbine Erfurt and BSG Optima Erfurt.
• 1977 The first issue of Alice Schwarzer's feminist magazine EMMA is published.
• 1988 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera premieres on Broadway.
• 1990 The Deutsche Terminbörse (DTB) begins trading in options as the first supra-regional and first fully electronic exchange in Germany.
• 1993 Václav Havel is elected the first President of the Czech Republic.
• 1997 The Green Bay Packers win the Super Bowl XXXI against the New England Patriots at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a score of 35:21. Desmond Howard is named the most valuable player.
• 2004 During the removal of a dead, stranded sperm whale near Tainan in Taiwan, the whale explodes due to an internal buildup of gas. None of the approximately 600 onlookers is injured.

Born on January 26

• 1876 Rosa Valetti, German actress, cabaret artist and chansonnier
• 1880 Douglas MacArthur, American general, Chief of Staff of the Army and the most decorated soldier in the US Armed Forces
• 1891 Ilja Grigorjewitsch Ehrenburg, Russian writer and war correspondent
• 1941 Heinrich von Pierer, German manager, chairman of the management board and supervisory board of Siemens
• 1950 Jörg Haider, Austrian politician and governor of Carinthia
• 1961 Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 Hubert Aiwanger, German politician
• 1971 Rick Kavanian, German comedian
• 1981 Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan conductor
• 1990 Sergio Pérez, Mexican racing driver

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „26. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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