Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 26
January 26: Australia Day in Australia (1788), Republic Day in India (1950).
- 1500 – Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reached the north coast of what today is Brazil.
- 1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Captain Arthur Phillip (pictured), landed at Sydney Cove, establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia.
- 1905 – The Cullinan Diamond, the largest rough gem-quality diamond ever found, was discovered at the Premier Mine in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa.
- 1950 – Indian independence movement: India officially became a republic under a new constitution, with Rajendra Prasad as its first president.
- 1983 – The spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3, the IBM Personal Computer's first "killer application", was first released.
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