Daily Almanac: Jan. 26, 2022
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Wacky Holiday Today
• National Peanut Brittle Day
• Spouse’s Day
What Happened On This Day
• 1998 In a TV statement, Bill Clinton denies having had “sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”
• 1905 The world’s largest diamond is found in South Africa
• 1950 India becomes a republic
Births On This Day
• 1955 Eddie Van Halen
Dutch/American guitarist, songwriter, producer
• 1925 Paul Newman
American actor, director, race car driver, businessman, co-founded Newman’s Own
Deaths On This Day
• 1979 Nelson Rockefeller
American politician, 41st Vice President of the United States
• 1962 Lucky Luciano Italian/American mobster