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January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 338 days remaining (339 in Leap Year s).
Events
- 98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva .
- 672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1186 - Henry VI , the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I , weds Constance Of Sicily .
- 1343 - Pope Clement VI issues the Bull '' Unigenitus ''.
- 1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno .
- 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 Ahmed II . Mustafa rules until his death in 1703 .
- 1785 - The University Of Georgia is founded.
- 1825 - U.S. 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, D.C. , the National Geographic Society is founded.
- , China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
- 1909 - The Young Left is founded in Norway .
- 1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti .
- 1926 - John Logie Baird demonstrates the first Television broadcast.
- 1939 - United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France .
- , begins. Following the capture of Tobruk , two brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursue the Italians westwards and encounters an Italian rear guard at Derna .
- Air Raid against Germany , targeting Wilhelmshaven .
- is lifted.
- arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi Concentration Camp where 1.1-1.5 million people had been murdered.
- 1951 - Nuclear Test ing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats .
- 1967 - Astronaut s 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 sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning Nuclear Weapon s in space.
- 1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War .
- 1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
- 1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
- 1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger , Mahamane Ousmane , in a military coup.
- 1996 - Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- 1997 - It is revealed that French Museum s have 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 part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
- 2001 - Ten members of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in Colorado .
- 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos , Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
Births
- 1443 - Albert, Duke Of Saxony (d. 1500 )
- 1546 - Joachim Friedrich , Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608 )
- 1585 - Hendrick Avercamp , Dutch painter (d. 1634 )
- 1603 - Harbottle Grimston , English politician (d. 1685 )
- 1621 - Thomas Willis , English physician who made important contributions to anatomy, particularly of the brain and nervous system (d. 1675 )
- 1662 - Richard Bentley , English classical scholar (d. 1742 )
- 1687 - Balthasar Neumann , German architect (d. 1753 )
- 1701 - Johann Nikolaus Von Hontheim , German historian and theologian (d. 1790 )
- 1720 - Samuel Foote , English dramatist and actor (d. 1777 )
- 1741 - Hester Thrale , Welsh diarist (d. 1821 )
- 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer (d. 1791 )
- 1805 - Samuel Palmer , English artist (d. 1881 )
- 1806 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga , Spanish composer (d. 1826 )
- 1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , French architect (d. 1879 )
- 1823 - Edouard Lalo , French composer (d. 1892 )
- 1826 - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian writer (d. 1889 )
- 1826 - Richard Taylor , American Confederate general (d. 1879 )
- 1832 - Lewis Carroll , English author (d. 1898 )
- 1836 - Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch , Austrian writer (d. 1895 )
- 1848 - Togo Heihachiro (東郷平八郎), Japanese admiral (d. 1934 )
- 1850 - Samuel Gompers , American labor leader (d. 1924 )
- 1850 - Edward J. Smith , English captain of the Titanic (d. 1912 )
- 1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II Of Germany (d. 1941 )
- 1885 - Jerome Kern , American composer (d. 1945 )
- 1885 - Eduard Künneke , German composer (d. 1953 )
- 1885 - Harry Ruby , American musician, composer, and writer (d. 1974 )
- 1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg , Russian writer (d. 1967 )
- 1893 - Soong Ching-ling (宋慶齡), one of the Soong Sisters , wife of Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙, 孫文) (d. 1981 )
- 1900 - Hyman Rickover , American admiral (d. 1986 )
- 1901 - Art Rooney , American football team owner (d. 1988 )
- 1903 - John Carew Eccles , Australian neuropsychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (d. 1997 )
- 1905 - Howard McNear , American actor (d. 1969 )
- 1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page , American jazz trumpeter (d. 1954 )
- 1918 - Skitch Henderson , English-born bandleader (d. 2005 )
- 1919 - Ross Bagdasarian , American musician and actor (d. 1972 )
- 1920 - Helmut Zacharias , German violinist (d. 2002 )
- 1921 - Donna Reed , American actress (d. 1986 )
- 1924 - Sabu , Indian actor (d. 1963 )
- 1926 - Fritz Spiegl , Austrian-born journalist (d. 2003 )
- 1929 - Gastón Suárez , Bolivian novelist and dramatist (d. 1984 )
- 1930 - Bobby Blue Bland , American singer
- 1931 - Mordecai Richler , Canadian author (d. 2001 )
- 1936 - Troy Donahue , American actor (d. 2001 )
- 1936 - Samuel C. C. Ting , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1937 - John Ogdon , English pianist (d. 1989 )
- 1940 - James Cromwell , American actor
- 1944 - Mairéad Corrigan , Northern Irish activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1944 - Nick Mason , English drummer ( Pink Floyd )
- 1945 - Harold Cardinal , Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (d. 2005 )
- 1946 - Nedra Talley , American singer ( Ronettes )
- 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov , Russian dancer
- 1950 - Amos Grunebaum , Israeli-born obstetrician and gynecologist
- 1954 - Peter Laird , co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- 1954 - Joko Ninomiya , notable Japanese martial artist and founder of Enshin Karate
- 1955 - John Roberts , Chief Justice Of The United States
- 1955 - Alexander Stuart , British author of The War Zone
- 1956 - Mimi Rogers , American actress
- 1957 - Janick Gers , English musician ( Iron Maiden )
- 1957 - Frank Miller , author and cartoonist ( Sin City )
- 1958 - Kadri Mälk , Estonian artist, jewellry designer
- 1959 - Keith Olbermann , American journalist and sportscaster
- 1959 - Cris Collinsworth , American football player and television sportscaster
- 1961 - Margo Timmins , Candian singer ( Cowboy Junkies )
- 1961 - Gillian Gilbert , British musician ( New Order )
- 1964 - Bridget Fonda , American actress
- 1965 - Alan Cumming , Scottish actor
- 1967 - Bobby Deol , Indian actor
- 1968 - Mike Patton , American singer ( Faith No More )
- 1968 - Tricky , English rapper
- 1970 - Mark Trojanowski , American musician ( Sister Hazel )
- 1971 - Fann Wong , Singapore actress, model, and singer ( Shanghai Knights )
- 1972 - Keith Wood , Irish rugby player
- 1974 - Chaminda Vaas , Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1976 - Clint Ford , American Voiceover actor
- 1976 - Ahn Jung-Hwan , Korean football player
- 1979 - Daniel Vettori , New Zealand cricketer
- 1979 - Rosamund Pike , British actress
- 1980 - Marat Safin , Russian tennis player
- 1981 - Alicia Molik , Australian tennis player
Deaths
- 98 - Nerva , Roman Emperor (b. 35 )
- 1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa , Japanese shogun (b. 1435 )
- 1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius , German composer (b. 1560 )
- 1638 - Gonzalo De Céspedes Y Meneses , Spanish novelist
- 1731 - Bartolomeo Cristofori , Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655 )
- 1740 - Louis Henri, Duc De Bourbon , Prime Minister of France (b. 1692 )
- 1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte , German philosopher (b. 1762 )
- 1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood , British admiral (b. 1724 )
- 1851 - John James Audubon , French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b. 1785 )
- 1860 - János Bolyai , Hungarian mathematician (b. 1802 )
- 1880 - Edward Middleton Barry , English architect (b. 1830 )
- 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi , Italian composer (b. 1813 )
- 1910 - Thomas Crapper , English inventor (b. 1836 )
- 1919 - Endre Ady , Hungarian poet (b. 1877 )
- 1940 - Isaac Babel , Ukrainian writer (b. 1894 )
- 1956 - Erich Kleiber , Argentine conductor (b. 1890 )
- 1967 - Crew of Apollo 1 :
- --- Roger Chaffee (b. 1935 )
- --- Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b. 1926 )
- --- Edward White (b. 1930 )
- 1970 - Rita Angus , New Zealand painter (b. 1908 )
- 1971 - Jacobo Arbenz , President Of Guatemala (b. 1913 )
- 1972 - Mahalia Jackson , American singer (b. 1911 )
- 1975 - Bill Walsh , American producer and writer (b. 1913 )
- 1983 - Louis De Funès , French actor (b. 1914 )
- 1986 - Lilli Palmer , German-born actress (b. 1914 )
- 1988 - Massa Makan Diabaté , Malian author (b. 1938 )
- 1989 - Thomas Sopwith , British aviation pioneer (b. 1888 )
- 1992 - Allan Jones , American actor and singer (b. 1908 )
- 1993 - André The Giant , professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946 )
- 1994 - Claude Akins , American actor (b. 1918 )
- 1996 - Ralph Yarborough , American politician (b. 1903 )
- 2000 - Friedrich Gulda , Austrian pianist (b. 1930 )
- 2004 - Jack Paar , American television show host (b. 1918 )
- 2006 - Johannes Rau , President of Germany from 1999 - 2004 (b. 1931 )
Holidays and observances
External links
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