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Ruins of the Abbey of Saint Winnoc

• ... that two towers remain (pictured) of the otherwise almost completely demolished Abbey of Saint Winnoc, because they were used as daymarks by sailors?
• ... that Michael Owens became the first mayor of Mableton, Georgia, in more than 100 years after winning the 2023 mayoral election?
• ... that Peckham Rock, a fake cave painting surreptitiously installed in the British Museum by Banksy, is actually concrete from Hackney?
• ... that biochemist Susan Berget was heavily involved in the discovery of split genes, but was excluded from credit and later the Nobel Prize for the research?
• ... that more than 150 years of documentary sources at the Central Archives of Gaza City were destroyed during the Israel–Hamas war?
• ... that for 25 years after an attempt to explode a whale went awry, the Oregon TV station that filmed it regularly fielded requests for its footage?
• ... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"?
• ... that Tap Pryor saw a coral reef in Zanzibar that inspired him to spend his life "under water"?

Ingenuity on Mars

• Following damage to the helicopter's rotors, NASA ends the Mars Ingenuity (pictured) mission after nearly 3 years and 72 flights.
• The Ram Mandir, a temple to Rama, is consecrated at a disputed site in Ayodhya, India.
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's lunar module SLIM lands on the Moon.
• Protests break out in Bashkortostan, Russia, following the imprisonment of environmental activist Fail Alsynov.

January 26: Australia Day (1788); Republic Day in India (1950)

The dome over the Hale Telescope

• 1564 – Livonian War: A Lithuanian surprise attack resulted in a decisive defeat of numerically superior Russian forces.
• 1808 – William Bligh, the governor of New South Wales, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps in the only military coup in Australian history.
• 1949 – The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory (pictured) in California, the largest aperture optical telescope in the world for 28 years, saw first light.
• 1974 – Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashed while taking off from İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, killing 67 people.
• 2009 – Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to the deposal of President Marc Ravalomanana.