South Africa - Cape Town - 26 January 2026 - The 77th Republic Day of India was India overtakes China to become the most populated country.
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184 BC Traditional date for the Greeks entering Troy using the Trojan Horse.
1066 Halley’s Comet appears over England, prompting monk Eilmer of Malmesbury to predict destruction before the Norman conquest.
1888 Eastman Kodak is founded by George Eastman, helping popularise photography through roll film.
1895 Joshua Slocum begins the first solo circumnavigation of the globe aboard the Spray.
1915 The Armenian genocide begins in the Ottoman Empire with mass deportations and killings of Armenian leaders.
1916 Ernest Shackleton launches a daring rescue mission from Elephant Island to save his Endurance crew.
1967 Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov becomes the first person to die during a spaceflight.
1979 Abel Muzorewa becomes prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia after electoral victory.
1980 Eight US servicemen die in the failed Operation Eagle Claw hostage rescue mission in Iran.
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
2006 Six people are killed in Benoni after being pushed from a moving train during strike unrest.
2013 The Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh kills over 1,100 garment workers in the world’s deadliest structural failure.
2018 Streaming music services surpass physical CD and vinyl sales globally.
2023 India becomes the world’s most populous country, overtaking China.
2023 Tucker Carlson is fired from Fox News and later launches a major political podcast career.
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