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
* 1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begin and later
ends in their execution on January 31.
* 1870 - 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
* 1943 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid
against Germany (Wilhlemshaven was the target).
* 1944 - World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted
* 1945 - 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 in at the Nevada Test Site begin 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
* 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
* 1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black
America Contest 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 had 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 were part of a "vast
right-wing conspiracy."
* 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kills
more than 1,000.
Births
* 1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (+ 1634)
* 1741 - Hester Thrale, diarist (+ 1821)
* 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (+ 1791)
* 1814 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, architect
* 1832 - Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (+
1898)
* 1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (+ 1895)
* 1850 - Samuel Gompers, labor union leader (+ 1924)
* 1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, last German Emperor and Prussian
king (+ 1941)
* 1885 - Eduard KŸnneke, composer (+ 1953)
* 1885 - Jerome Kern, composer (+ 1945)
* 1885 - Harry Ruby, musician, composer, writer (+ 1974)
* 1900 - Admiral Hyman Rickover, American admiral, proponent of the
"nuclear Navy"
* 1901 - Willy Fritsch, actor (+ 1973)
* 1903 - John Carew Eccles, psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine 1963, (+ 1997)
* 1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz trumpet (+ 1954)
* 1918 - Skitch Henderson, musician, band leader
* 1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor (+ 1972)
* 1920 - Frankie Albert, American football star (+ 2002)
* 1921 - Donna Reed, actress (+ 1986)
* 1924 - Sabu, actor (+ 1963)
* 1931 - Mordecai Richler, author (+ 2001)
* 1936 - Troy Donahue, actor (+ 2001)
* 1945 - Nick Mason, musician of Pink Floyd
* 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer
* 1956 - Mimi Rogers, actress
* 1957 - Janick Gers, musician (Iron Maiden)
* 1974 - Bridget Fonda, actress
* 1965 - Alan Cumming, actor
Deaths
* 98 - Nerva, Roman Emperor
* 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, composer
* 1910 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
* 1967 - Edward White, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Roger Chaffee, in
capsule AS-204, which was later designated Apollo 1
* 1975 - Bill Walsh, producer, writer
* 1986 - Lilli Palmer, actress
* 1993 - AndrŽ the Giant, wrestler, actor
* 1994 - Claude Akins, actor
Holidays and observances
* Catholicism - Catholic Schools Week.
