Notable Historical Events on January 27th
January 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
98 |
Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. |
661 |
Rashidun Caliphate, then the largest empire in history, ends with death of Ali. Succeeded by the Umayyad Caliphate |
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. |
1302 |
Dante becomes a Florentine political exile |
1343 |
Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus. |
1538 |
States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy |
1556 |
Willem of Orange becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece |
1593 |
Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno |
1662 |
1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI) |
1671 |
Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City |
1695 |
Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703. |
1710 |
Tsar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget |
1778 |
Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris |
1785 |
1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia |
1823 |
President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America |
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." |
1864 |
Battle of Fair Gardens, TN |
1864 |
Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va |
1870 |
1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana) |
1870 |
After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union |
1870 |
Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated |
1880 |
Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp |
1886 |
1st British government of Salisbury resigns |
1888 |
National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC) |
1891 |
Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania |
1894 |
1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 |
1894 |
Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park |
1896 |
Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory |
1897 |
British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) |
1900 |
Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention |
1900 |
Foreign diplomats in Peking, China, write formal notes of protest demanding that the Chinese Government stop the Boxes and other groups leading attacks on Westerners and Christians. |
1902 |
5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (NYC) |
1905 |
Maurice Rouvier forms government in France |
1906 |
Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec |
1908 |
Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte |
1909 |
The Young Left is founded in Norway. |
1914 |
A petition is written and submitted by the black and coloured women of the Orange Free State, an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa, against the carrying of passes by women |
1915 |
US Marines occupy Haiti |
1916 |
Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin |
1917 |
Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record) |
1918 |
"Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater |
1918 |
The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War. |
1924 |
Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier |
1924 |
Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow |
1924 |
The Natal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Association jointly organise a mass meeting in Durban, South Africa in opposition to the Class Areas Bill |
1926 |
US Senate agrees to join World Court |
1926 |
Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what becomes known as the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics |
1933 |
Otto Meisnner (Head of the German President's Office) dines with British ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold |
1934 |
27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (6-3 7-5 6-1) |
1934 |
French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) |
1934 |
VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe |
1939 |
First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. |
1940 |
-17°F (-27°C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record) |
1941 |
Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor |
1942 |
-19°F (-27.4°C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850 |
1943 |
1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) |
1944 |
Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed |
1944 |
Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, & Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves |
1945 |
Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) |
1945 |
Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) |
1945 |
S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in NYC |
1945 |
Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested |
1948 |
1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates |
1948 |
1st tape recorder sold |
1949 |
Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China |
1950 |
2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win |
1951 |
"Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances |
1951 |
US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site |
1953 |
Netherlands end Marshall aid |
1955 |
"Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 476 perfs |
1956 |
NFL's NY Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium |
1956 |
Elvis Presley's releases the single "Heartbreak Hotel" |
1957 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
1958 |
Ferenc Munnich succeeds Kadar as premier of Hungary |
1961 |
"Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV |
1962 |
"Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances |
1963 |
Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec |
1963 |
Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
1964 |
"Introducing the Beatles" album released in US |
1964 |
Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval |
1964 |
Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican Pres bid |
1965 |
1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite |
1965 |
Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue |
1966 |
Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966 |
1967 |
Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee |
1967 |
Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records |
1967 |
New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker) |
1967 |
Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed |
1968 |
"Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 perfs |
1969 |
14 spies hanged in Baghdad |
1969 |
9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria |
1969 |
Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th) |
1969 |
Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years |
1969 |
Chuck Noll is named head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers (the youngest coach in NFL history at the time) |
1970 |
Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG" |
1971 |
Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru' |
1971 |
The body of a man who had been shot dead is found in Belfast |
1972 |
Two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot dead in an attack on their patrol car in the Creggan Road, Derry |
1972 |
The British Army and the Irish Republican Army engage in gun battles near County Armagh; British troops fire over 1,000 rounds of amunition |
1973 |
UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record) |
1973 |
US & North Vietnam's William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and miltary draft |
1973 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
1973 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
1974 |
"Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances |
1976 |
"Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV |
1976 |
9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver |
1976 |
Morocco-Algeria battles in West Sahara |
1976 |
Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia |
1977 |
1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV |
1979 |
36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda |
1979 |
Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) |
1980 |
"Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 45 perfs |
1980 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27 |
1982 |
"Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale NYC for 747 perfs |
1982 |
Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland |
1982 |
Phila trades Larry Bowa & Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus |
1982 |
Roberto S Cordova installed as president of Honduras |
1982 |
West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup |
1983 |
World's longest underwater tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid |
1984 |
John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album |
1984 |
LA Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak |
1984 |
Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial |
1985 |
"Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 perf |
1985 |
15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth |
1985 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
1985 |
Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25) |
1985 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14 |
1986 |
13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle |
1987 |
Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team |
1988 |
Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court |
1989 |
German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed |
1989 |
Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
1989 |
Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student |
1990 |
64th Australian Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (6-3, 6-4) |
1991 |
79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (1-6, 6-4. 6-4, 6-4) |
1991 |
Dutch Pacifist Socialistic Party disbands |
1991 |
Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU |
1991 |
Super Bowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Super Bowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB ("Wide Right" |
1992 |
"Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 7 perfs |
1992 |
19th American Music Award: C & C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win |
1992 |
Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee |
1992 |
Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty) |
1992 |
Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair |
1993 |
DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 |
1994 |
"No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances |
1994 |
Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras |
1994 |
Romanian social democrats form government with anti-Semites |
1995 |
69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62) |
1996 |
15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies |
1996 |
70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61) |
1996 |
Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop |
1996 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1996 |
Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day |
1996 |
Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana v Jamaica at Kingston |
1996 |
Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. |
1997 |
"Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin NYC |
1997 |
24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win |
1998 |
Crane crashes into Roosevelt Island tram (NYC), injuring 10 |
1998 |
Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime) |
1998 |
WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock |
2013 |
20 police officers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan |
2013 |
In Port Said, Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured |
2013 |
11 people are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crashes down a ravine in Serta, Portugal |
2013 |
7 people are killed and 3 are injured after a retaining wall collapses during a football match at the Ugur Sports Facility, Turkey |
2013 |
Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray to wins his third consecutive men's singles title at the 2013 Australian Open |
2013 |
Magnus Carlsen wins the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament |
2013 |
Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship |
2013 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 62-35 |
2017 |
Japan PM says it's not so easy to change Trump's mind on TPP |
2017 |
Sanctuary cities see legal holes in Trump's immigration orders |
2017 |
Mexican president cancels Trump summit |
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