On this day in music history:

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel (1970)

Kids in America by Kim Wilde (1981)

Cecilia Bartoli: A Portrait / documentary (1992)

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Album by Simon & Garfunkel,

released January 26, 1970.

Track list: Bridge over Troubled Water; El Condor Pasa (If I Could); Cecilia; Keep the Customer Satisfied; So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright; The Boxer; Baby Driver; The Only Living Boy in New York; Why Don’t You Write Me; Bye Bye Love; Song for the Asking.

Kids in America

Song by Kim Wilde,

released January 26, 1981.

Cecilia Bartoli: A Portrait

Documentary directed by David Thomas and Les Young,

released January 26, 1992.

On this day in the Star Trek universe:

Star Trek (1967)

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)

Star Trek: Voyager (2000)

Star Trek

Season 1. Episode 19.

Episode entitled: Tomorrow Is Yesterday.

Released January 26, 1967.

Directed by Michael O'Herlihy.

Written by D.C. Fontana.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Alexander Courage.

Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Roger Perry, Hal Lynch, Richard Merrifield, John Winston, Ed Peck, Mark Dempsey, Jim Spencer, Sherri Townsend, Majel Barrett, Bill Blackburn, John Burnside, Frank da Vinci, Eddie Paskey.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 4. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: The Wounded.

Released January 26, 1991.

Directed by Chip Chalmers.

Written by Jeri Taylor, Stuart Charno, Sara B. Cooper / Sara Charno, Cy Chermak, Ronald D. Moore, Joe Menosky, David Carren, J. Larry Carroll.

Created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Bob Gunton, Rosalind Chao, Marc Alaimo, Colm Meaney, Marco Rodríguez, Time Winters, John Hancock, Majel Barrett, Tracee Cocco, Denise Deuschle, Eben Ham, Jeri McBride, James McElroy.

Star Trek: Voyager

Season 6. Episode 13.

Episode entitled: Virtuoso.

Released January 26, 2000.

Directed by Les Landau.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Raf Green, Kenneth Biller, Raf Green, Bryan Fuller, Michael Taylor, Robert Doherty.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Jeri Ryan, Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Ray Xifo, Paul Williams, Marie Caldare, Nina Magnesson, Rico Bueno, Leonard Crofoot, Zadrina Eisenmann, Tarik Ergin, Peter Scott Harmyk, Nichole McAuley, Tom Miller, Joey Sakata, Lou Saliba, Pablo Soriano, Paris Themmen.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):

M Squad

Season 3. Episode 19.
Episode entitled: The Man Who Lost His Brain.
Released January 26, 1960.
Directed by Francis D. Lyon and Herman Hoffman.
Written by Rik Vollaerts.
Music by Benny Carter.

Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Vinton Hayworth, Howard Petrie, Vince Williams, Steve Conte, Jean Howell, Fred Coby.

On this day in movie history - Under the Gun (1951):

Under the Gun

directed by Ted Tetzlaff,

written by George Zuckerman,

based on a story by Daniel B. Ullman,

was released in the United States on January 26, 1951.
Music by Milton Rosen.

Cast:

Richard Conte, Audrey Totter, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe, Shepperd Strudwick, Gregg Martell, Phillip Pine, Donald Randolph, Royal Dano, Richard Taber, Dabbs Greer.

Born on this day – Samuel French:

Samuel French

Actor

Writer

Producer

January 26, 1980 – May 9, 2025

Credits:

Adventures in Zeroworld: Shadow of Doom (2025); Blood Dried Hands (2024); Cherry Town 2023 (2023); Fear the Walking Dead (2020); Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister (2023); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); Monsters Within (2025); Pegasus: Pony with a Broken Wing (2019); Texas Rising (2015); The Ladybug Files (2025); The Mark of a Killer (2019); The Pro Bono Watchman (2022); Towpath (2025).

Born on this day – Eddie Van Halen:

Eddie Van Halen

Musician

Songwriter

January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020

Born on this day – LeRoy Lad Panek:

LeRoy Lad Panek

Writer

January 26, 1943 – November 5, 2021

Credits:

Books:

After Sherlock Holmes: The Evolution of British and American Detective Stories; An Introduction to the Detective Story; Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story; Early American Detective Stories: An Anthology; New Hard-Boiled Writers: 1970s-1990s; Nineteenth Century Detective Fiction: An Analytical History; Probable Cause: Crime Fiction in America; Reading Early Hammett: A Critical Study of the Fiction Prior to the Maltese Falcon; The American Police Novel: A History; The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891; The Origins of the American Detective Story; Watteau's Shepherds: The Detective Novel in Britain, 1914-1940.