26 january 2023 day

Famous Deaths • Billy Packer, American college basketball broadcaster (Raycom Sports, NBC, CBS), dies of kidney failure at 82 • Gary Peters, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1964, 67; AL Rookie of the Year 1963; AL wins leader 1964; Chicago WS, Boston Red Sox), dies at 85 • Irvine Shillingford, West Indian cricket batsman (4 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 120; Combined Islands, Windward Islands), dies at 78 • Keith Thomson, New Zealand cricket batsman (2 Tests, 1 x 50; Canterbury) and field hockey centre-half (28 Tests; Canterbury), dies at 81

• Jan 3 England's Michael Smith hits a nine-dart finish on the way to his first PDC world darts title, beating Dutchman Michael van Gerwen, 7-4 at the Alexandra Palace, London • • Jan 4 US and other countries including Italy, Japan and India re-introduce Covid testing of people arriving from China as WHO warns China under-representing Covid's true impact in the country • • Jan 24 Coldest winter in a decade in Afghanistan has killed at least 124 people and 70,000 livestock, leaving many areas cut off, according to state officials • Jan 24 Doomsday Clock reset 90 seconds until midnight, the closest it has ever been (set up 1947) by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, due partly to war in Ukraine • Jan 24 Peruvian Prime Minister Dina Boluarte call for a "national truce" after seven weeks of violent protests at Pedro Castillo's removal from office, which have left at least 50 people dead • Jan 24 Third baseman Scott Rolen (Philadelphia Philleis, St. Louis Cardinals) elected to Baseball Hall of Fame • • Jan 25 Chris Hipkins is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, following the resignation of • • • Jan 27 New Zealand city of Auckland declares a state of emergency as a tropical storm brings record levels of rain, major flooding and four deaths • Jan 27 Urgent search announced for tiny radioactive capsule 6mmx8mm, which dropped out of a truck somewhere along 1,400 km journey in Western Australia • Famous Deaths • • Jan 1 Frank McGarvey, Scottish soccer forward (7 caps; Celtic...