January 26 in history: • 1841 – Commodore Gordon Bremer took formal possession of Hong Kong Island for the United Kingdom at Possession Point. → go there • 1926 – Oliver Hutchinson (pictured) appeared on television in inventor John Logie Baird's first successful demonstration of using the technology to show humans. → go there • 1972 – JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell 10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. → go there • 1991 – Somali Rebellion: Factions led by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted President Siad Barre. → go there • 2001 – An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least 20,000 people, injured 167,000 others and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes. → go there Died 1568: Lady Katherine Grey Wiki link Born 1892: Bessie Coleman Wiki link Born 1905: Olga Tufnell Wiki link Died 1920: Jeanne Hébuterne Wiki link Pictured: Photograph of a television picture of Hutchinson.