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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 calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
  • 2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.

    Births

    January 26 - January 28 - December 27 - February 27 -- listing of all days


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