January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining until the end of the year (339 in leap years). This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY
98 ― Trajan (Caesar Nerva Traianus Divi Nervae filius Augustus) becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1302 ― Poet and politician Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence, where he served as one of six priors governing the city. Dante’s political activities, including the banishing of several rivals, led to his own banishment, and he wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, as a virtual wanderer, seeking protection for his family in town after town.
1888 ― The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.”
1924 ― Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) is placed in a Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.
1967 ― The Beatles sign a 9-year worldwide contract with EMI records.
1967 ― Treaty signed banning military use of nuclear weapons in space.
2013 – Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
1850 – Samuel Gompers, English-American labor leader, American Federation of Labor (d. 1924)
1880 – Douglas MacArthur, American general, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1900 – Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral, organizer of the U.S. Nuclear Navy (d. 1986)
1901 – Art Rooney, American football player and coach, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (d. 1988)
1918 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
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NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY
98 ― Trajan (Caesar Nerva Traianus Divi Nervae filius Augustus) becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
1302 ― Poet and politician Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence, where he served as one of six priors governing the city. Dante’s political activities, including the banishing of several rivals, led to his own banishment, and he wrote his masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, as a virtual wanderer, seeking protection for his family in town after town.
1556 ― William of Orange becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.
1662 ― The first American lime kiln begins operation in Providence, RI.
1662 ― The first American lime kiln begins operation in Providence, RI.
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 first Russian state budget.
1785 ― The first U.S. state university, the University of Georgia, is chartered in Athens.
1710 ― Tsar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget.
1785 ― The first U.S. state university, the University of Georgia, is chartered in Athens.
1823 ― President James Monroe appoints first U.S. 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."
1870 ― After accepting the 15th amendment (Africa-American men right to vote), Virginia is readmitted to Union.
1870 ― After accepting the 15th amendment (Africa-American men right to vote), Virginia is readmitted to Union.
1888 ― The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C., for “the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge.”
1891 ― Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant, PA.
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.
1916 ― The Communist party "Spartacus Letters" are first published in Berlin.
1924 ― Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) is placed in a Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow.
1926 ― Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his theory of wave mechanics and presents what becomes known as the Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics.
1940 ― A low temperature of -17°F (-27°C) occurred at CCC Camp F-16, GA (state record).
1940 ― A low temperature of -17°F (-27°C) occurred at CCC Camp F-16, GA (state record).
1943 ― The 8th Air Force's bombers, dispatched from their bases in England, fly the first American bombing raid against the Germans, targeting the Wilhelmshaven port. Of 64 planes participating in the raid, 53 reached their target and managed to shoot down 22 German planes—and lost only three planes in return.
1951 ― Forcefully marking the continued importance of the West in the development of nuclear weaponry, the government detonates the first of a series of nuclear bombs at its new Nevada test site.
1967 ― The Beatles sign a 9-year worldwide contract with EMI records.
1967 ― Treaty signed banning military use of nuclear weapons in space.
1967 ― A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral, FL, kills astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chafee.
1969 ― Chuck Noll is named head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers (then the youngest coach in NFL history).
1973 ― U.S. and North Vietnam's William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and miltary draft.
1978 ― On this day in 1978, Richard Chase, who becomes known as the “Dracula Killer,” murders Evelyn Miroth and Daniel Meredith, as well as Miroth’s 6-year-old son andanotherwoman,in Sacramento, California.
1990 ― In the wake of vicious fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in Azerbaijan, the Soviet government sends in 11,000 troops to quell the conflict.
1996 ― Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2013 – Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1791)
1832 – Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English novelist, poet, and mathematician (d. 1898)
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1791)
1832 – Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English novelist, poet, and mathematician (d. 1898)
1850 – Samuel Gompers, English-American labor leader, American Federation of Labor (d. 1924)
1900 – Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral, organizer of the U.S. Nuclear Navy (d. 1986)
1901 – Art Rooney, American football player and coach, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (d. 1988)
1918 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
1925 – Paul Newman, American actor, director, race car driver, and businessman, co-founded Newman's Own (d. 2008)
1936 – Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, discovered subatomic J/ψ particle
1941 – Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1981)
1944 – Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor
1955 – John Roberts, American lawyer and judge, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1941 – Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1981)
1944 – Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor
1955 – John Roberts, American lawyer and judge, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
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