| January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar. There are 338 days remaining (339 in leap years).
Events
- 98 Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
- 1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.
- 1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The
trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their
execution on January 31.
- 1695 - Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman
sultan in Istanbul on
the death of Amhed II. Mustafa will ruled until 1703.
- 1785 - The University of Georgia is founded.
- 1825 - US Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma),
clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail
of Tears."
- 1870 - The first college sorority,
Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
- 1880 - Thomas Edison files a
patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
- 1888 - In Washington, DC
the National Geographic Society is
founded.
- 1900 - Boxer Rebellion:
Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that
the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
- 1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti.
- 1926 - John Logie Baird
demonstrates the first television broadcast.
- 1939 - The President of the United-States Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of
U.S. war planes to France.
- 1941 - World War II: Fighting at
Derna, Libya, begins Following the capture of Tobruk 2 brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay
pursued the Italians westwards and encountered an Italian rear guard at Derna.
- 1943 - World War II: 50 bombers
mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.
- 1944 - World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
- 1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives
at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people
were murdered.
- 1951 - Nuclear testing at the
Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on
Frenchman Flats.
- 1967 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and
Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1967 - More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in
space.
- 1973 - Paris Peace
Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
- 1978 - Lt Marilyn R. Koon, 161st
Aerial Refueling Squadron, Arizona Air National Guard, becomes first female Air National Guard Pilot.
- 1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own
indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump.
- 1991 - Muhammad Siyad
Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.
- 1991 - Super Bowl XXV: The
New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.
- 1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial
charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.
- 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara deposes the first democratically elected president of
Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in
a military coup.
- 1997 - It is revealed that French museums
have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
- 1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today
Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
- 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
Births
- 1585 - Hendrick
Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
- 1662 - Richard Bentley,
English Classical scholar
- 1720 - Samuel Foote, dramatist and actor (d. 1777)
- 1741 - Hester Thrale, diarist
(d. 1821)
- 1756 - Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, composer (d. 1791)
- 1805 - Samuel Palmer, English
artist (d. 1881)
- 1806 - Juan
Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer
- 1814 - Eugčne
Viollet-le-Duc, architect (d. 1879)
- 1832 - Lewis Carroll, author of
Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland (d. 1898)
- 1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (d. 1895)
- 1850 - Samuel Gompers,
labor union leader (d. 1924)
- 1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, last German Emperor and Prussian king (d. 1941)
- 1885 - Eduard Künnecke,
composer (d. 1953)
- 1885 - Jerome Kern, composer (d.
1945)
- 1885 - Harry Ruby, musician,
composer, writer (d. 1974)
- 1900 - Admiral Hyman
Rickover, American admiral, proponent of the "nuclear Navy" (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Willy Fritsch, actor (d. 1973)
- 1901 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
- 1903 - John Carew
Eccles, neuropsychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 (d.
1997)
- 1905 - Howard McNear, American
actor (d. 1969)
- 1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz
trumpet (d. 1954)
- 1918 - Skitch Henderson,
musician, band leader
- 1919 - Ross Bagdasarian,
musician, actor (d. 1972)
- 1920 - Frankie Albert, American football star (d.
2002)
- 1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Tony Martinez, Puerto
Rican actor (d. 2002)
- 1921 - Donna Reed, actress (d.
1986)
- 1924 - Sabu, actor (d. 1963)
- 1926 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist
(d. 2003)
- 1929 - Mohamed Al-Fayed,
retailer
- 1930 - Bobby Blue Bland,
blues singer
- 1931 - Mordecai Richler,
author (d. 2001)
- 1936 - Troy Donahue, actor (d. 2001)
- 1937 - John Ogdon, English pianist
(d. 1989)
- 1940 - James Cromwell,
American actor
- 1944 - Mairéad Corrigan, Northern Ireland peace activist
- 1944 - Nick Mason, English drummer
Pink Floyd
- 1946 - Nedra Talley, singer,
member of the Ronettes
- 1948 - Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Russian dancer
- 1956 - Mimi Rogers, actress
- 1957 - Janick Gers, musician
(Iron Maiden)
- 1959 - Keith Olbermann,
news correspondent, sportscaster
- 1964 - Bridget Fonda,
actress
- 1965 - Alan Cumming, actor
- 1968 - Mike Patton, lead singer of
several bands in USA
- 1968 - Tricky, English rapper
- 1971 - Fann Wong, Chinese actress, singer, model (Shanghai
Knights)
- 1972 - Josh Randall, American actor
- 1974 - Chaminda Vaas, cricketer, Sri Lanka
- 1980 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
Deaths
- 98 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (b. 35)
- 1490 - Ashikaga
Yoshimasa, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1435)
- 1851 - John James
Audubon, naturalist, ornithologist, painter (b. 1785)
- 1860 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
- 1880 - Edward
Middleton Barry, architect (b. 1830)
- 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi,
composer (b. 1813)
- 1910 - Thomas Crapper,
inventor (b. 1836)
- 1940 - Isaac Babel, writer (b.
1894)
- 1956 - Erich Kleiber, German
conductor (b. 1890)
- 1967 - Edward White (b. 1930), Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926), and Roger Chaffee (b. 1935), in capsule AS-204, which was later designated Apollo 1
- 1971 - Jacobo
Arbenz, president of Guatemala (b. 1913)
- 1972 - Mahalia Jackson,
American singer
- 1975 - Bill
Walsh, producer, writer (b. 1913)
- 1986 - Lilli Palmer, actress
- 1989 - Thomas Sopwith,
British aviation pioneer
- 1992 - Allan Jones, actor, singer
(b. 1908)
- 1993 - André the Giant,
wrestler, actor (b. 1946)
- 1994 - Claude Akins, actor
- 1996 - Ralph Yarborough,
U.S. Senator and Texas politician (b. 1903)
- 2004 - Jack Paar, television show host (b. 1918)
Holidays and observances
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