January 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1564	The Council of Trent issues its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.	The Stone Poneys	Different Drum	Evergreen, Volume 2
2	1589	Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.	Talking Heads	Found a Job	More Songs about Buildings and Food
3	1837	Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.	Sufjan Stevens	Say Yes! to Michigan!	Michigan
4	1838	Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States	Rev. I.B. Ware/Wife & Son	You Better Quit Drinking Shine	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)
5	1855	Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.	Fennesz	The Point of it All	Venice
6	1905	The Cullinan Diamond is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.	The Black Heart Procession	It's a Crime I Never Told You about the Diamonds in Your Eyes	2
7	1960	Danny Heater sets a worldwide high school basketball scoring record when he records 135 points for Burnsville High School (West Virginia)	Sonic Youth	Cinderella's Big Score	Goo
8	1978	The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio	Victory at Sea	Blizzard of '78	Carousel
9	1992	Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.	Spoon	Don't Make Me a Target	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
10	2004	A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.	Void	Explode	Faith/Void Split

(Historical facts about January 26 are from Wikipedia.)