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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Today in History

1699
The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the war between Austria and the Turks.
1720
Guilio Alberoni is ordered out of Spain after his abortive attempt to restore his country’s empire.
1788
A fleet of ships carrying convicts from England lands at Sydney Cove in Australia. The day is since known as Australia’s national day.
1861
Louisiana secedes from the Union.
1863
Lincoln names General Joseph Hooker to replace Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1875
Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb.
1885
General “Chinese” Gordon is killed on the palace steps in Khartoum by Sudanese Mahdists in Africa.
1924
Petrograd is renamed Leningrad.
1934
Germany signs a 10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance system.
1942
American Expeditionary Force lands in Northern Ireland.
1943
The first OSS (Office of Strategic Services) agent parachutes behind Japanese lines in Burma.
1964
Eighty-four people are arrested in a segregation protest in Atlanta.
1969
California is declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides.
2005
Condoleezza Rice is appointed to the post of secretary of state. The post makes her the highest ranking African-American woman ever to serve in an U.S. presidential cabinet.

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