January 27

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 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, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
• 1814 – Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
• 1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (d. 1898)
• 1836 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (d. 1895)
• 1850 – Samuel Gompers, American 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, American 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, American 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, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1785)
• 1860 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
• 1880 – Edward Middleton Barry, architect (b. 1830)
• 1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b. 1813)
• 1910 – Thomas Crapper, inventor (b. 1836)
• 1940 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian 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 and singer (b. 1908)
• 1993 – André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Claude Akins, actor
• 1996 – Ralph Yarborough, Texas politician (b. 1903)
• 2004 – Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

• United Kingdom — Holocaust Memorial Day.
• Germany — Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Anniversary for the Victims of National Socialism).
• Poland — Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu (Anniversary for the Victims of Nazism).
• Italy — Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
• Catholicism — Catholic Schools Week.
• Serbia — St. Sava Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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