Today in History
27 January
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27 January |
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| 1186 Henry VI of Germany married Constance of Sicily and was crowned King of Burgundy, Germany and Italy. | ||
| 1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile | ||
| 1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy | ||
| 1546 Joachim III Frederick, elector (Brandenburg) | ||
| 1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies | ||
| 1556 Abbas I, "the Great," shah of Persia (1587-1629) was born | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1710 Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget | ||
| 1731 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian harpsichord manufacturer generally credited with the invention of the piano, died. | ||
| 1736 Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland | ||
| 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro) was born | ||
| 1775 Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity) was born | ||
| 1805 Samuel Palmer, London, painter/etcher (Valley of Vision) was born | ||
| 1808 David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life) was born | ||
| 1822 Greece proclaimed its independence from Turkey. | ||
| 1823 President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America | ||
| 1832 Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], auth (Alice in Wonderland) was born | ||
| 1851 Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega) was born | ||
| 1870 After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union | ||
| 1870 Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated | ||
| 1880 U.S. Patent No 223,898 was granted to Thomas Alva Edison, for his electric lamp. | ||
| 1882 Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italy, writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano) was born | ||
| 1886 1st British governamentt of Salisbury resigns | ||
| 1887 Carl Blegen, Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos) was born | ||
| 1888 National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC) | ||
| 1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania | ||
| 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) | ||
| 1899 Granville English, composer was born | ||
| 1900 Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention | ||
| 1901 Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon) was born | ||
| 1901 Giuseppe Verdi, major Italian opera composer of the 19th century, died. His operas include "Rigoletto," "La Traviata," and "Aida." | ||
| 1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (NYC) | ||
| 1905 Maurice Rouvier forms governament in France | ||
| 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti | ||
| 1916 The Spartacus League, forerunner of the German Communist Party, was formed in Berlin. | ||
| 1918 "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater | ||
| 1924 Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier | ||
| 1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square | ||
| 1925 Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant was born | ||
| 1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court | ||
| 1926 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in London. | ||
| 1933 Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold | ||
| 1933 Mohamed Al Fayed, CEO (Harrods) was born | ||
| 1934 Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers) was born | ||
| 1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor | ||
| 1943 The U.S. Eighth Air Force made the first all-American bombing raid on Germany with a daylight raid on Wilhelmshaven. | ||
| 1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed | ||
| 1944 Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, & Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves | ||
| 1945 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) | ||
| 1945 The Russians liberated Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had murdered 1.5 million men, women and children, including more than one million Jews. | ||
| 1948 1st tape recorder sold | ||
| 1951 Gustaf Mannerheim, Finnish president from 1944-46 and military leader in the campaigns against Russia, died. | ||
| 1952 After serious rioting in Cairo the previous day, Egyptian Prime Minister Nahhas Pasha was dismissed and replaced with Aly maher Pasha. | ||
| 1953 Netherlands end Marshall aid | ||
| 1962 The Soviet government changed all place names honouring Molotov, Kaganovich and Malenkov, who had been involved in an attempt to oust Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. | ||
| 1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Sen-R-Maine) tries for Republican President bid | ||
| 1964 France established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. | ||
| 1965 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite | ||
| 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee | ||
| 1967 Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records | ||
| 1967 60 nations signed a U.N. treaty on the peaceful uses of outer space and the banning of weapons of mass destruction there. | ||
| 1967 Three U.S. astronauts died in a flash fire aboard Apollo 1 during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral. | ||
| 1969 14 men, nine of them Jews, were executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. | ||
| 1969 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria | ||
| 1973 A ceasefire agreement signed in Paris brought an end to the U.S. military role in Vietnam. | ||
| 1973 William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty | ||
| 1974 8,000 people were evacuated from their homes as floodwaters flowed through the main streets of Brisbane. | ||
| 1976 Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara | ||
| 1976 Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia | ||
| 1981 In Indonesia, 500 people died when the motor ferry Tampomas II sank in the Java Sea, following a fire. | ||
| 1982 Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland | ||
| 1982 Roberto S Cordova installed as president of Honduras | ||
| 1982 In Ireland, the minority government of Garret Fitzgerald was defeated over the budget. | ||
| 1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid | ||
| 1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge | ||
| 1989 German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed | ||
| 1991 Somalian President Mohamed Siad Barre fled after rebels overrun his palace and captured the capital. | ||
| 1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty) | ||
| 1992 President 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 Carlos Reina succeeds pres Callejas in Honduras | ||
| 1994 The Mexican government and eight political parties signed an agreement calling for electoral change in a bid to end a peasant uprising in the southern state of Chiapas. | ||
| 1994 Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites | ||
| 1994 Former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi became the highest-ranking politician committed for trial in Italy's graft scandal. | ||
| 1996 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies | ||
| 1996 Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st NY female Episcopal bishop | ||
| 1996 Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day | ||
| 1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (NYC) Tram, injuring 10 | ||