On Jan. 26, 1998, President Bill Clinton denied having an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, telling reporters, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." He acknowledged a relationship some months later.
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1609: The Ottoman Empire signs Peace Treaty of Karlowitz with Austria, Russia, Poland and Venice ceding control of most of Transylvania and Hungary. The treaty significantly diminishes Turkish influence in east-central Europe and makes Austria the dominant power there.
1654: Dutch settlers are expelled from north-eastern Brazil, ending a 24-year struggle to wrest the colony from the Portuguese.
1778: Australia is settled by the British.
1784:In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin expressed unhappiness over the choice of the eagle as the symbol of America, and stated his own preference: the turkey.
1788: First fleet of ships bringing convicts from Britain arrive in Australia to establish penal colonies. The establishment of an Australian prison colony was aimed at relieving overcrowding in British prisons.
1802: Congress passed an act calling for a library to be established within the U.S. Capitol.
1837: Michigan became the 26th state.
1841: Britain formally occupies Hong Kong, which the Chinese had ceded to the British.
1861: Louisiana seceded from the Union.
1865: Britain announces no more convicts will be shipped to Australia.
1870: Virginia rejoined the Union.
1875: The electric dental drill was patented by George Green of Kalamazoo, Mich.
1885: The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege. They slaughter most of the inhabitants and the British garrison.
1918: To promote food conservation during World War I, the U.S. government called for one meatless day, two wheatless days and two porkless days each week.
1930: Mohandas K Gandhi, India's independence leader who also was known as "Mahatma" Gandhi, begins a march across India against British occupation.
1931: Mohandas K Gandhi is released from prison in India for discussions with government.
1934: Germany signs 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland.
1942: The first American expeditionary force to go to Europe during World War II went ashore in Northern Ireland.
1947: Sweden's 40-year-old crown prince Gustav Adolf is killed in a plane crash in Denmark, leaving five small children, among them the current King Carl XVI Gustav, without their father.
1950: India officially proclaims itself a republic as Rajendra Prasad takes the oath of office as president.
1952: Famed Shepherd's Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, is burned during riots by mobs demanding British withdrawal from the Suez.
1957: Kashmir Constitution for incorporation with India goes into effect.
1960: National Football League team owners chose Pete Rozelle to be the new commissioner, succeeding the late Bert Bell.
1962: The U.S. launches Ranger 3 to land scientific instruments on the moon, but the probe misses its target by some 35,483 kilometres (22,000 miles).
1969: President Richard M. Nixon declared a federal disaster in California in the wake of major flooding.
1979: Former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller died at age 70.
1980: Six Americans hidden for three months in the Canadian Embassy in Tehran were smuggled out of Iran by Canadian diplomats.
1990: Romanian Vice President Dmitru Mazilu resigns to protest increasingly repressive policies of that country's interim government. Hurricane-force winds pounded the British Isles and much of Northern Europe, killing at least 92 people and knocking out power to nearly 1 million people.
1991: Seven Iraqi warplanes fly to Iran to avoid destruction in Gulf War.
1992: In Mauritania, police open fire at opposition supporters protesting election of military ruler.
1993: Vaclav Havel is elected president of the new Czech Republic, one of the successors to the Czechoslovak federation.
1994: Civilians mob a food convoy and shoot six of its police escorts in a grim demonstration of how hunger and desperation are fuelling lawlessness in Bosnia.
1996: Polish Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy, accused of spying for Moscow for 13 years, resigns. First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton testified before a grand jury connected to the Whitewater probe.
1997: Police wielding batons beat back demonstrators as tens of thousands march through Belgrade in a continuing protest against government annulment of local elections.
1999: The first official commemoration of homosexual Holocaust victims takes place at a Memorial Day service at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp. An estimated 10,000 gays were persecuted during World War II. U.S. President Bill Clinton welcomed Pope John Paul II to St. Louis.
2000: More than a year after a DNA test suggests that Thomas Jefferson may have had a son by his slave Sally Hemming, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation -- which owns Jefferson's home -- acknowledges that he probably was the father of one, if not all six, of her children. The grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez hugged and kissed the six-year-old boy during a tense, 90-minute meeting in Miami Beach that had been arranged by the US government. Tennis great Don Budge, who in 1938 became the first Grand Slam winner, died in Scranton, Pa. at age 84.
2001: The most powerful earthquake to strike India in half a century levels parts of western Gujarat state killing more than 2,000 people and injuring more than 3,000.
2003: A China Airlines jet lands in Shanghai, China and picks up passengers, becoming the first Taiwanese airliner to do so in mainland China since 1949.
2004: U.S. intelligence agencies need to explain why their research indicated Iraq possessed banned weapons before the American-led invasion, says the outgoing top US inspector, David Kay, who now believes Saddam Hussein had no such arms.
2005: Prime Minister Tony Blair's government proposes sweeping new powers to control terrorism suspects, including electronic tagging, curfews and house arrests without trial. Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as secretary of state. A US Marine helicopter crashed in western Iraq, killing 30 Marines and a Navy medic aboard. A man parked his SUV on railroad tracks in Glendale, Calif., setting off a crash of two commuter trains that killed 11 people. (The SUV's driver, Juan Alvarez, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 11 consecutive life terms.)
2006: Confronted by Oprah Winfrey on her syndicated talk show, author James Frey acknowledged lies in his addiction memoir "A Million Little Pieces."
2008: Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the South Carolina primary. Maria Sharapova won the Australian Open, beating Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-3 for her third Grand Slam singles title. Mirai Nagasu became the second-youngest woman (after Tara Lipinski) to win the title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, held in St. Paul, Minn. Radical PLO leader George Habash died in Amman, Jordan, at age 81.
2009: Timothy Geithner was sworn in as the nation's 75th treasury secretary, less than an hour after winning Senate confirmation. The impeachment trial of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich opened in Springfield, with Blagojevich refusing to take part, saying the rules were biased against him. "Octomom" Nadya Suleman of Whittier, Calif., gave birth at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in California to the world's longest-surviving set of octuplets. Suleman was already a mother of six.
Today's Birthdays January 26: Actress Anne Jeffreys is 87. Actress Joan Leslie is 85. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer is 81. Sportscaster-actor Bob Uecker is 75. Actor Scott Glenn is 71. Singer Jean Knight is 67. Activist Angela Davis is 66. Rock musician Corky Laing (Mountain) is 62. Actor David Strathairn is 61. Football Hall of Famer Jack Youngblood is 60. Alt-country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams is 57.
Those Born On This Date Include: French philosopher Claude Helvetius (1715); Ugo Fiscolo, Italian author (1778-1827); Douglas MacArthur, U.S. General of The Army (1880-1964); Austrian singer Maria von Trapp, whose family was the basis for "The Sound of Music" (1905); Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu (1918); author Philip Jose Farmer (1918); French film director Roger Vadim (1928).
This Date In Entertainment History January 26:
In 1925, actor Paul Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
In 1934, the Apollo Theatre in Harlem presented its first live stage show, featuring Benny Carter and his Big Band.
In 1956, Buddy Holly made his first recordings for Decca Records. Two years later on this date, Holly and the Crickets appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
In 1977, guitarist Peter Green, formerly of Fleetwood Mac, was committed to a mental hospital in England. He had fired a gun at a delivery boy who was bringing a royalty check to him.
In 1979, "The Dukes of Hazzard" made its debut on CBS.
In 1988, The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Phantom of the Opera," the longest-running show in Broadway history, opened at the Majestic Theater in New York.
In 2008, Christian Brando, the troubled eldest son of the late actor Marlon Brando, died in Los Angeles at age 49.
UPI's Thought for the Day: Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
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