🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Monday, January 26. Today we're talking about Council of Trent, Australia Day, the first public demonstration of television, the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Kobe Bryant's death, and much more—a whirlwind of quick, sharp insights that you won't want to miss!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1482
"Pentateuch", the Jewish Bible, was first printed in Bologna, Italy.
-1531
The Lisbon earthquake killed 30,000 people.
-1564
The Council of Trent (Tridentum) established a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
-1788
Captain Arthur Phillip and British colonists raised the Union Flag at Sydney Cove, marking Australia Day, or Invasion Day.
-1926
The first public demonstration of television was by John Logie Baird in his London laboratory.
-1939
Barcelona fell to General Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War.
-1950
The Indian Constitution came into effect, making India the world's most populous democracy.
-1998
President Clinton denied the allegations at a press conference, "I want to say one thing to the American people: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
-2020
Basketball star Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas.
📸 Snapshot
During NYC's biggest snowstorm, Pierpont Street from Fulton Street, 1888
🗨️ Last Words
“Let me die to the sound of sweet music.”