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Information about 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 KŸnneke, 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


   * 1957 - Janick Gers, musician (Iron Maiden)


   * 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 - AndrŽ the Giant, wrestler, actor


   * 1994 - Claude Akins, actor


Holidays and observances


   * Catholicism - Catholic Schools Week.

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