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:
- 1926 - first public television broadcast.
- 1945 - liberation of concentration camp in Auschwitz.
- 1967 - three astronauts are killed in a fire on board Apollo 1 at the Kennedy Space Center.
Births:
- 1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter
- 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (+ 1791)
- 1814 - Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, architect
- 1832 - Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (+ 1898)
- 1859 - Wilhelm II, last german emperor and Prussian king (1888-1918) (+ 1941)
- 1885 - Eduard Künneke, composer (+ 1953)
- 1901 - Willy Fritsch, actor (+ 1973)
- 1903 - John Carew Eccles, phsychologist, winner of Nobel Price in medicine 1963, (+ 1997)
- 1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz trumpet (+ 1954)
- 1921 - Donna Reed
- 1945 - Nick Mason of Pink Floyd
Deaths:
- year? - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer
- 1967 - Edward White, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Roger Chaffee, in capsule AS-204, which was later designated Apollo 1
- 1975 - Bill Walsh, Movie producer and writer.
Holidays and observances:
- Catholicism - Catholic Schools Week.
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
January 26 - January 28 - December 27 - February 27 - Historical anniversaries - (Please read this before editing or creating a date page)