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 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)
• 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
• 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 - André the Giant, wrestler, actor
• 1994 - Claude Akins[?], actor

Holidays and observances

• Catholicism - Catholic Schools Week.

January 26 - January 28 - December 27 - February 27 - Historical anniversaries