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."
- 2001 - A chartered Beechcraft King Air 200 crashes after takeoff from Boulder, Colorado killing 10
- 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 Künneke, 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)
- 1926 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist (+ 2003)
- 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
- 1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, architect
- 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 - André the Giant, wrestler, actor
- 1994 - Claude Akins, actor
Holidays and observances
- Catholicism - Catholic Schools Week.
See Also:
January 26 - January 28 - December 27 - February 27 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December