January 26: A Look Back at History's Impactful Milestones

1564 The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism
1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1784 Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
1788 Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists hoist the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, now celebrated as Australia Day. Referred to as Invasion Day by some First Nations people.
1802 Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
1837 Michigan admitted as 26th US state
1838 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1863 American Civil War: Massachusetts Governor receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent (54th Massachusetts Regiment)
1870 US Congress authorizes Virginia to rejoin the union
1871 US income tax repealed
1887 Ground is broken and construction begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
1918 Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
1926 John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London
1942 1st US force in Europe during WWII go ashore in Northern Ireland
1961 1st woman personal physician to a US President - Janet G. Travell (to John F. Kennedy)
1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "The Twist" to be impure and bans it from all Catholic schools
1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on US TV network CBS
1989 AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
2005 Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold the post
2020 LA Lakers basketball legend Kobe Bryant dies in a helicopter crash in foggy conditions in the hills above Calabasas, southern California; considered one of the greatest players in the game's history