On This Day January 26

The world's largest diamond ever, the Cullinan was found on January 26, 1905 at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa during a routine inspection by the mine's superintendent. It weighed 1.33 pounds.  In 1907, the Transvaal Colony government bought the Cullinan and then presented it to Edward VII, King of the UK, sending it by ordinary registered mail. Edward VII exclaimed on seeing it: "I should have kicked it aside as a lump of glass if I had seen it on the road."

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