26. јануар 1979. је био петак под знаком звездице ♒. Био је 25 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био Jimmy Carter.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 47 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био понедељак, 26. јануар 2026., пре 167 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је уторак, 26. јануар 2027., за 197 дана. Живели сте 17.334 дана, или око 416.038 сати, или око 24.962.312 минута, или око 1.497.738.720 секунди.
Date: 27 January 1979
Special to The New York Times
Among reporters at Pres Carter's news conf are 3 correspondents from Hsinhua; they are 1st journalists from Communist-governed China to attend Presidential news conf (S)
Date: 26 January 1979
Appellate Div of NYS Sup Ct in Bklyn has extended stay of sentence of King's Courier reporter Pamela O'Shaughnessy; her appeal is scheduled to be heard before ct in spring (S)
Date: 27 January 1979
Publisher William O Taylor says all-day, 7-edition newspaper will replace Boston Globe's morning and evening papers Feb 5 (S)
Date: 27 January 1979
Gulf Shores, Ala, Police Chief James Maples says that active investigation is still under way in apparent cocaine frame-up of Padecky (S)
Date: 26 January 1979
By IRVIN MOLOTSKY
Irvin MOLOTSKY
Reprs Norman F Lent and Thomas J Downey and Suffolk County Exec John V N Klein urge WCBS, WNBC and WABC to increase their news coverage of Nassau and Suffolk Counties (M)
Date: 26 January 1979
By JOSEPH DURSO
Joseph DURSO
Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler is defended by teammates after he denies any role in setting up cocaine arrest of Bob Padecky, sportswriter for Sacramento Bee (M)
Date: 27 January 1979
NJ Superior Ct Judge William J Arnold dismisses several contempt-of-ct citations against NY Times reporter M A Farber; says acquittal of Dr Mario Jascalevich and 40-day contempt sentence served by Farber made it pointless to penalize him further; Superior Ct Judge Theodore W Trautwein rules that Farber must provide Jascalevich's attys with deposition for use in number of civil malpractice suits filed against Jascalevich (S)