1st of January 2026
1st of January 2026 is the 1st day of the year.
It is New Years Day...more, St Cedd’s Day...more.
This day in history:
1660: Pepys’ First Diary Entry, - ...more
1707: The Act of Union Signed - ...more
1781: Ironbridge Opened - ...more
1788: First Issue of The Times - ...more
1801: English Claim to French Crown Ends - ...more
1818: Frankenstein Published - ...more
1877: Victoria Proclaimed Empress of India - ...more
1880: Britains 1st telephone directory is published - ...more
1894: Manchester Ship Canal Opens - ...more
1909: Old-Age Pensions First Paid - ...more
1942: First Edition of Desert Island Discs - ...more
1965: Stanley Matthews Knighted - ...more
1973: Britains Joins the EEC - ...more
1985: First UK Mobile Phone Call - ...more
1995: Fred West Found Hanged - ...more
More dates from British history.
British quote for the day:
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. - Sir Kingsley Amis.
Born today:
John Wilkins - 1614, Elkanah Settle - 1648, John Kemble - 1757, Samuel Cunliffe Lister - 1815, Arthur Clough - 1819, Robert Rainy - 1826, Marie Louise de la Ramee - 1839, E M Forster - 1879, Ernest Jones - 1879, Kim Philby - 1912, John Wood - 1930, Joe Orton - 1933, Fiona Phillips - 1961, Jimi Mistry - 1973, Jack Wilshere - 1992.
Died today:
John Pounds - 1839, Charles Prestwich Scott - 1932, George Simpson - 1965.
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