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.

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