Today in History - History - January 27th

1710Tsar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget

199670th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)

1880Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

199179th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (1-6, 6-4. 6-4, 6-4)

199724th American Music Award: Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win

1957Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open

197936th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda

98Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.

1924Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow

1992Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee

1832Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Halton, Cheshire, author (Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1898)

1850Samuel Gompers, London England, American labor union leader (American Federation of Labor)

1936Samuel Ting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, American physicist, Nobel Laureate

1775Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity)

1993André the Giant, WWF wrestler, dies of congestive heart failure at 49

1816Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood/admiral, dies at 92

98Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies of a stroke at about 67

1901Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, dies at 77

1972Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60

2010J. D. Salinger, American novelist (b. 1919)