📜 This Day in History

January 26

• 661Ali, the fourth Rashidun caliph, was assassinated by Ibn Muljim, leading to the end of the caliphate.
• 1841Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point.
• 1926Oliver Hutchinson appeared on television in inventor John Logie Baird's first successful demonstration of using the technology to show humans.
• 1952Spontaneous anti-British riots erupted in Cairo following the killings of 50 Egyptian auxiliary police officers the previous day.
• 1991Somali Rebellion: Factions led by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted President Siad Barre.
• 2020A Sikorsky S-76 helicopter crashed in Calabasas, California, killing all nine people on board, including former basketball player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.

Born on this day

• 183Lady Zhen, wife of Cao Pi (died 221)
• 1880Douglas MacArthur, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1964)
• 1925Paul Newman, American actor, activist, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own (died 2008)
• 1963José Mourinho, Portuguese footballer and manager