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 will 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 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 - Eugčne Viollet-le-Duc , French architect (d. 1879 )
1832 - Lewis Carroll , English author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 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
External links
January 26 - January 28 - December 27 - February 27 -- listing of all days
