January 26

On This Day In History
	1788: First European settlement in Australia On this day in 1788, Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag and established the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia.
Australia
Biography Of The Day
	Wayne Gretzky Canadian ice-hockey player Wayne Gretzky, who holds the NHL record for points (2,857), goals (894), and assists (1,963) and is considered by many the game's greatest player of all time, was born this day in 1961.
Wayne Gretzky after the Edmonton Oilers won the Stanley Cup, May 19, 1984.
More Events On This Day In History
	1950 India became a republic, achieving full independence from Britain.
1942	1942 The first U.S. expeditionary force to land in Europe during World War II reached Ireland.
1885	1885 British General Charles Gordon and other defenders of Khartoum were killed by Sudanese rebels.
	1880 Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War, was born.
	1837 Michigan became the 26th U.S. state admitted to the Union.