26 Dey 1387

Events

• 1867 (159 years ago) Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
• 1981 (45 years ago) Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• 1991 (35 years ago) The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
• 2001 (25 years ago) Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, is launched (Wikipedia Day).
• 2016 (10 years ago) The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Somali militants attack the DusitD2 hotel in Nairobi, Kenya killing at least 21 people and injuring 19.

Births

• 1622 (404 years ago) Molière, French actor and playwright (died 1673)
• 1809 (217 years ago) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French economist and politician (died 1865)
• 1850 (176 years ago) Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (died 1891)
• 1850 (176 years ago) Mihai Eminescu, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (died 1889)
• 1908 (118 years ago) Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (died 2003)
• 1918 (108 years ago) Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, second President of Egypt (died 1970)
• 1929 (97 years ago) Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
• 1996 (30 years ago) Dove Cameron, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 69 (1957 years ago) Galba, Roman emperor (born 3 BC)
• 936 (1090 years ago) Rudolph of France,
• 1919 (107 years ago) Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (born 1871)
• 1919 (107 years ago) Karl Liebknecht, German politician (born 1871)
• 1988 (38 years ago) Seán MacBride, Irish republican activist and politician, Minister for External Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
• 1998 (28 years ago) Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian economist and politician, Prime Minister of India (born 1898)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Dolores O'Riordan, Irish pop singer (born 1971)
• 2025 (a year ago) David Lynch, American television and film director, visual artist and musician, complications from emphysema (born 1946)

All 408 events, births and deaths of January 15