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.
- 672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1142 - Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 1900 - Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, 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.
- 1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, 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.
- 1943 - World War II: Fifty 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.
- 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
- 1967 - Project Apollo: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1967 - More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
- 1969 - The present-day Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000KVA was completed and placed in operation.
- 1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War, Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
- 1977 - Record company EMI sacks the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.
- 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 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.
- 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 (d. 1675)
- 1662 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
- 1687 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
- 1701 - Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d. 1790)
- 1720 - Samuel Foote, English dramatist (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)
- 1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
- 1848 - Togo Heihachiro, 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 (d. 1974)
- 1891 - Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d. 1967)
- 1893 - Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
- 1900 - Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d. 1986)
- 1901 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)
- 1903 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1997)
- 1905 - Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969)
- 1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American musician (d. 1954)
- 1918 - Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d. 2005)
- 1918 - Elmore James, American blues musician (d. 1963)
- 1918 - William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
- 1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, American musician (d. 1972)
- 1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
- 1920 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
- 1921 - Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986)
- 1924 - Sabu, Indian actor (d. 1963)
- 1926 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
- 1929 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
- 1930 - Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
- 1931 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
- 1932 - Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
- 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, Irish activist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- 1944 - Nick Mason, English musician (Pink Floyd)
- 1945 - Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
- 1946 - Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
- 1949 - Ethan Mordden, American author
- 1950 - Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
- 1951 - Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
- 1954 - Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
- 1954 - Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
- 1955 - John Glover Roberts, Jr., 17th Chief Justice of the United States
- 1955 - Alexander Stuart, British author
- 1956 - Mimi Rogers, American actress
- 1957 - Janick Gers, English musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1957 - Frank Miller, American author
- 1958 - Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
- 1959 - Keith Olbermann, American sportscaster
- 1959 - Cris Collinsworth, American football player
- 1961 - Margo Timmins, Canadian 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
- 1969 - Cornelius, musician (Flipper's Guitar)
- 1969 - Michael Kulas, Canadian singer/songwriter (James (band))
- 1970 - Jon Douglas Rainey, Actor/Host of It Takes a Thief
- 1970 - Mark Trojanowski, American musician (Sister Hazel)
- 1971 - Fann Wong, Singapore entertainer (Shanghai Knights)
- 1972 - Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
- 1974 - Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1976 - Clint Ford, American voice 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
- 1981 - Josh Groban, American Singer
- 1987 - Lily Donaldson, British model
- 1988 - Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer
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. 1789)
- 1857 - Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (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)
- 1921 - Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (b. 1891)
- 1940 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
- 1956 - Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b. 1890)
- 1967 - Crew of Apollo 1:
- 1970 - Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
- 1971 - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
- 1972 - Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
- 1972] - Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
- 1973 - William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
- 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)
- 2003 - Henryk Jabłoński, President of communist People's Republic of Poland (b. 1909)
- 2004 - Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
- 2004 - Salvador Laurel, 9th Vice President of the Philippines (b.1928)
- 2006 - Johannes Rau, 8th Bundespräsident (President of Germany) (b. 1931)
Holidays and observances
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