Time Capsule: January 20, 2026

Min Wage Hourly$7.25

Median Home Price$408,800.00

Gas Price Avg$4.09

Bread Price Avg$2.05

Movie Ticket Avg$12.50

First Class Stamp$0.78

Milk Price Avg$4.07

Spy Close$677.58

Qqq Close$608.06

Dia Close$484.88

Min Wage Hourly$7.25

Median Home Price$408,800.00

Gas Price Avg$4.09

Bread Price Avg$2.05

Movie Ticket Avg$12.50

First Class Stamp$0.78

Milk Price Avg$4.07

Spy Close$677.58

Qqq Close$608.06

Dia Close$484.88

Screen Releases & Special Events on January 20, 2026

Films, recorded performances, sports events and specials with an exact TMDB primary-release date on this day.

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Whistle

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Mercy

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The Calling Witch

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Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart

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Arachnado

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Trouble Shooter

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The Dual Heroes Strike

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Darbie's Scream House

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Loss of Altitude

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La Guerre, Donald Trump et nous : 2025, l'année de tous les dangers

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Television On January 20, 2026

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The Rookie

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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Grey's Anatomy

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The Simpsons

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Fallout

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NCIS

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Criminal Minds

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Family Guy

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Law & Order

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Spartacus: House of Ashur

Exact-date daily brief

January 20, 2026

The Israeli military demolishes the main UNRWA building in East Jerusalem, forcing staff out and confiscating their devices, following the Israeli ban on the organization operating in the region. The driver is killed and 37 other people are injured when a commuter train collides with a wall and derails in Gelida, Catalonia, Spain.

Key developments

The Israeli military demolishes the main UNRWA building in East Jerusalem, forcing staff out and confiscating their devices, following the Israeli ban on the organization operating in the region.
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The driver is killed and 37 other people are injured when a commuter train collides with a wall and derails in Gelida, Catalonia, Spain.
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At least four people are killed in flooding in Monastir Governorate, Tunisia, the worst floods in the country since 1950.
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On screens that day

Movie Whistle

Movie Mercy

Movie The Calling Witch

Movie Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart

Market close

SPY $677.58 2026-01-20

QQQ $608.06 2026-01-20

DIA $484.88 2026-01-20

Pull-list picks

Released January 21, 2026 (one day after the capsule date) $4.99

Rogue (2026) #1 (Variant)

Marvel

Old secrets drive Rogue from Haven House and back toward Mystique and Destiny as she tries to leave her villainous past behind.

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Released January 21, 2026 (one day after the capsule date) $4.99

Psylocke: Ninja (2026) #1 (Variant)

Marvel

The issue revisits Betsy Braddock's transformation into a ninja and links the Hand's plans for Psylocke to its former assassin Elektra.

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Released January 21, 2026 (one day after the capsule date) $4.99

Inglorious X-Force (2026) #1 (Variant)

Marvel

Cable returns from the future with damaged memories and recruits Hellverine, Archangel and Boom-Boom to stop an assassination tied to his missing clues.

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Shelf candidates

Available January 20, 2026 Exact day $49.99

LEGO Education Moon Mission Science Kit (45200)

The LEGO Group

The 519-piece home STEM kit uses a launchpad model and LEGO Education's Build, Solve, Invent play loop to explore space-science challenges.

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Available January 20, 2026 Exact day $49.99

LEGO Education Antarctic Animals Science Kit (45201)

The LEGO Group

The 461-piece kit gives children an icy-slope model for hands-on experiments inspired by Antarctic animals and their environment.

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Available January 20, 2026 Exact day $99.99

LEGO Education Mars Mission Science Kit (45202)

The LEGO Group

The 933-piece Mars kit centers on a tall drop-tower experiment model designed for repeated building, testing and invention challenges.

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New work from the lab

Published January 20, 2026 Exact day

MorphoChrome Paints Everyday Objects with Programmable Structural Color

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT's MorphoChrome system combines software, a handheld RGB-laser device, holographic film and a transfer process to add designed iridescent color to ordinary objects.

Verified with MIT News

Published January 20, 2026 Exact day

MIT Method Exposes Hidden Failures Behind Aggregate Machine-Learning Metrics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT researchers showed that strong average model scores can hide severe failures on new subgroups and proposed deployment-time testing to reveal unreliable correlations.

Verified with MIT News

Published January 20, 2026 Exact day

NASA's SunRISE SmallSats Pass Launch-Environment Tests

NASA

NASA reported that the six SunRISE small satellites passed vibration and other launch-environment tests ahead of operating together as a giant radio telescope for solar bursts.

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The Sounds of

Popular recordings and roots/country selections associated with the year

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