Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 338 days remaining (339 in leap years). Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begin and later ends in their execution on January 31. 1785 - The University of Georgia Founded 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." 2001 - A chartered Beechcraft King Air 200 crashes after takeoff from Boulder, Colorado killing 10 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) 1926 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist († 2003) 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 1880 - Edward Middleton Barry, architect 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. See Also: January 26 - January 28 - December 27 - February 27 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.