January 27

Holidays

• UN ? International Holocaust Memorial Day
• Germany ? Gedenktag fnr die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism).
• Catholicism ? Catholic Schools Week.
• Poland ? Dzie? Pami?ci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism).
• Italy ? Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
• Denmark ? Auschwitzdag (Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocide).
• Serbia ? St. Sava Day.
• United Kingdom ? Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Events

• 2019 2019 Jolo Cathedral bombings: Two bombs at the Roman Catholic Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral in Jolo, Philippines, kill 20 people, fifteen civilians and five soldiers, and injure 81 others. Abu Sayyaf is suspected to be behind the attack. (Sky News)
• 2018 2018 Kabul ambulance bombing: A suicide bomber in an ambulance packed with explosives kills at least 102 people and wounds 158 outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. (The Washington Post)
• 2017 Somali Civil War (2009–present): Al-Shabaab militants attack a remote AMISOM base in southern Somalia, claiming to have killed dozens of Kenyan troops. (Reuters)
• 2016 Boko Haram insurgency: Suicide bombers blow themselves up in the northeast Nigerian town of Chibok, killing at least 13 and injuring at least 30 others. (AFP via Yahoo) (Reuters)Cameroon closes most of its northern markets on the Nigerian border. (The News) (Voice of America)
• 2015 Libyan Civil War (2014–present): Five gunmen at the Libyan Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli attack with at least ten dead. The hotel was previously the location in 2013 where a former prime minister was abducted. (AP)
• 2014 Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:: Sixty-one people are feared to have been killed following gun attacks in the states of Adamawa and Borno. (Xinhua)
• 2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: At least twenty members of the Afghan National Police have been killed in bomb attacks over the past day with eight police officers killed in the latest attack in Kandahar. (Reuters)
• 2012 Chinese security forces shoot dead a young Tibetan man in Sichuan province, at least the third such killing this week. (BBC)
• 2011 An 18-year old Palestinian, Fadi Kaddous, is shot to death during a clash with Israeli settlers in the West Bank. (''Haaretz'')
• 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
• 2009 In Los Angeles, California, a woman gives birth to octuplets, believed to be only the second set of eight babies born in the United States.
• 2008 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis: At least nine people are killed in western Kenya, reports say, in violence apparently linked to last month's disputed elections. (BBC News)
• 2007 War in Somalia: Ethiopia is going to withdraw one third of its troops stationed in Somalia by Sunday January 28, 2007, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says. (Reuters) (BBC)
• 2006 Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
• 2005 President of the Royal Society warns of oil companies' funding of lobbies in the UK to cast skepticism over the debate on climate change. (Guardian)
• 2004 In the USA, John Kerry wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary.
• 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.
• 2001 A plane crashes 40 miles east of Denver, Colorado, killing two players of the Oklahoma State University basketball team, six team staffers, and the two-person crew.
• 2000 The US Mint releases a new circulating dollar coin, depicting Sacagawea.
• 1998 WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics and Detroit Shock.
• 1997 Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, opens at Gershwin, New York City
• 1996 Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
• 1995 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
• 1994 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras.
• 1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12.
• 1992 Crazy He Calls Me opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
• 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
• 1988 US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court.
• 1987 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team.
• 1986 13th American Music Awards: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis and Crystal Gayle.
• 1985 Doug Henning & His World... closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York after 60 performances
• 1984 John andYoko release Milk andHoney album
• 1983 The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, breaks through.
• 1982 Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat opens at Royale NYC for 747 performances
• 1981 The Indonesian passenger ship ''Tamponas 2'' catches fire and capsizes in the Java Sea, killing 580.
• 1980 Near Livermore, California, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs.
• 1979 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.
• 1977 1st broadcast of Roots mini-series on ABC TV
• 1976 Laverne & Shirley spinoff from Happy Days premieres on ABC TV
• 1974 Lorelei opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances
• 1973 US and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war and milt draft
• 1972 Magnavox begins production of the Odyssey video game. The Odyssey is a primitive video game system, with no processors or integrated circuits. It plugs into a home TV set, displaying a moving white block that can be bounced by rotating remote paddles.
• 1970 American movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG".
• 1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad
• 1968 Darling of the Day opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 performances
• 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee
• 1966 The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in Malaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
• 1965 Ground breaking for Dragon Gateway at Grant Avenue
• 1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-Republican-Maine) tries for US Republican Presidential bid.
• 1963 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1962 Family Affair opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances
• 1961 Sing Along with Mitch [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
• 1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open.
• 1955 Plain & Fancy opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 476 performances
• 1953 Netherlands ends Marshall Plan aid.
• 1951 Peter Pan closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
• 1950 2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show and Texaco Star Theater win
• 1949 Chinese liner Taiping collides with a collier off south China
• 1948 1st tape recorder sold
• 1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
• 1944 Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns; Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves.
• 1943 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
• 1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-SchreibTr warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor.
• 1940 -17 degrees F (-27 degrees C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia, USA (state record).
• 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
• 1934 VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe.
• 1933 Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold
• 1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
• 1926 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
• 1925 February 1 ampndash The 1925 serum run to Nome (the quotGreat Race of Mercyquot) relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. territory of Alaska, to combat an epidemic.
• 1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
• 1918 The Finnish Civil War begins.
• 1917 Coen de Koning wins second official 11 cities race (9 53) (record).
• 1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" first published in Berlin.
• 1915 Military casualties begin arriving at the Hôpital Temporaire d'Arc-en-Barrois, established earlier in the month.
• 1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
• 1906 Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 seconds.
• 1905 Maurice Rouvier forms government in France.
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Famous Birthday

• Rosamund Pike

  British actress.

• Bridget Fonda

  American actress and member of the...

• Mikhail Baryshnikov
• Alan Cumming

  Scottish actor and comedian, star of a...

• Mimi Rogers

  American actress.

• James Cromwell

  American actor and producer.

• Lil Jon

  American rapper.

• Bobby Deol

  Indian actor and singer.

• Ingrid Thulin

  Swedish actress (d. 2004).

• Donna Reed

  American actor most noted for her...

• Susanna Thompson

  American actress.

• Patton Oswalt

  American actor and writer.

• Troy Donahue

  American actor and singer (d. 2001).

• Alex Norton

  Scottish television and film actor.

• Tamlyn Tomita

  Okinawa, Japan -- Actress (Karate Kid 2,...

• Brian Rix

  English actor producer and academic.

• Amy Hargreaves
• Devin Druid

  Actor.

• Cathy Podewell

  California, United States -- Actress...

• Florin Piersic

  Romanian actor.

• James Gibson

  American psychologist and academic (d....

• John Witherspoon

  American actor.

• Ruby Lin

  Taiwanese actress singer and producer.

• Howard McNear

  Los Angeles, California -- Actor...

• Kaiser Wilhelm

  Statesman.

• Dina Bonnevie

  Filipino actress.

• Mike Patton

  Metal Singer.

• Marat Safin

  Russian tennis player and politician.

• Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dancer.

• Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Egyptian businessman.

• Arpad Busson

  Businessman.

• Georges Mathieu

  French eccentric painter.

• Nick Mason

  Drummer.

• Karen Velez

  Rockville Centre, New York -- Playmate...

• Eliette Abécassis

  French professor of philosophy and...

• Ingrid Thulin

  Swedish actress (d. 2004).

• Edith Cresson
• Renaud Capuçon
• Daisy Lowe

  British model.

• Paul Quilès

  French Socialist politician, the Deputy...

• Keith Olbermann

  American news anchor & commentator.

• Eva Padberg

  German model, singer and actress.

• Fann Wong
• Lily Donaldson

  English model.

• John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
• Claude Labbé

  French politician, Deputy for the...

• Mark Owen

  English pop singer.

• John G Roberts

  American jurist and the 17th Chief...

• Steve Wynn (entrepreneur)
• Frank Miller

  United States -- Comicbook writer...

• Rico Barbès
• Frank Miller

  United States -- Comicbook writer...

• Gabriele Galassi
• Brugh Joy

  American author and teacher on Awareness...

• Alicia Molik

  Australian tennis player.

• Alexander (magician)
• Ernst Schröder (actor)
• Wen Liu
• Marie Daëms
• Marek Halter
• Jack Haley

  American basketball player: center,...

• Tracy Lawrence

  American singer, a 6 ft tall, boyish...

• Ole Einar Bjorndalen
• Tricky

  English rapper producer and actor (The...

• Mohammad Ali Abhati
• Helmut Zacharias

  German violinist and composer (d. 2002).

• Willie Lamothe
• Katy Rose

  American singer-songwriter and producer.

• Frank Augustyn

  Canadian ballet dancer; a foremost prize...

• Henri Perruchot
• Janick Gers

  English guitarist and songwriter (Iron...

• Sabu (actor)
• Andrei Pavel

  Romanian tennis player and coach.

• Jacques Nikonoff

  French civil servant, a founding member...

• Willy Fritsch

  German theater and film actor, a popular...

• Benay Venuta

  San Francisco, California -- Actress...

• Giovanni Arpino
• Phil Cunningham
• Philip Caldwell

  American business executive.

• Raymond Boudon

  French sociologist, professor at the...

• Jean-Michel Damase

  Composer.

• Federico Mayor Zaragoza
• Dominique Davray
• Heather Nauert
• Roger Bourdin
• Jean-Philippe Collard

  French musician, renowned pianist, he...

• Thomas Finneran

  American politician.

• Henri Texier

  French jazz double bassist, perhaps best...

• Lionel Delplanque

  French director, who made four short...

• Michel Meylan
• Frédéric Caudron
• Alice Burdeu
• Roxane Duran
• Jake Pavelka

  American reality TV star (The Bachelor).

• Gillian Gilbert

  English keyboard player and singer (New...

• Michael Craig

  Indian-English actor and screenwriter.

• Susanne Blakeslee

  American actress and singer.

• Cornelius (musician)
• Dave Manson

  Canadian ice hockey player and coach.

• Deb Talan

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist...

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Famous Deaths

• John Updike

  American writer, a prolific novelist and...

• Lilli Palmer

  German actress, with numerous awards and...

• Zelda Rubinstein

  American actress and activist (d. 2010).

• Charles Winninger

  Actor (Charlie Farrell Show), dies at...

• J D Salinger

  American novelist (Born 1919).

• Mahalia Jackson

  New Orleans, Louisiana -- Gospel singer...

• Jean Tardieu

  French TV Director of the Study Channel...

• Howard Zinn

  American historian author and activist...

• Suharto

  Indonesian soldier and politician 2nd...

• Gordon B Hinckley

  American religious leader (Born 1910).

• Edward White

  American astronaut, the first American...

• Jean-Christophe Lafaille

  French mountaineer famous for his...

• Roger B Chaffee

  Astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire.

• Johannes Rau

  German politician, President of Germany...

• John Farrow

  Australian-American director producer...

• Hanns Jelinek

  Composer, dies at 67.

• Ed Ford

  Comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at...

• Paula Ludwig

  Writer, dies at 74.

• Walter Baldwin

  Actor (Gay Amigo), dies at 88.

• Marguerite Canal

  Composer, dies at 87.

• Oscar Homolka

  Actor (7 Year Itch, Ball of Fire), dies...

• Iris Korn

  Actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA), dies...

• Louis De Funes

  Actor / writer (Mad Adventures of Rabbi...

• L Ron Hubbard

  Novelist / founder (Church of...

• Helen Jerome Eddy

  Actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm),...

• Francesca Primus

  Columnist (Back Stage), dies at 45.

• Gene Harris

  Entertainer, dies after long illness.

• Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies

  British actress (Eliza Dolittle), dies...

• Claude Akins American actor (Rio Bravo

  Lobo), dies of cancer at age 75 (born...

• Stanley Adams

  Songwriter, dies at 86.

• Joe Mays

  Actor (Mr Saturday Night), dies of AIDS...

• Geoffrey Parsons

  Australian / British pianist, dies at...

• John Patrick Sutton Ludlow

  Actor (Agatha), dies at 93.

• Ralph Webster Yarborough

  Politician, dies at 92.

• Matthew Coady

  Journalist, dies at 73.

• Eddie Calhoun

  jazz bassist, dies at age 72.

• Massa Makan Diabate

  Malian author (Born 1938).

• Adam Minchejmer composer

  dies at age 73.

• Theo Uden Marsman

  Dutch orchestra leader, dies at age 63.

• Leo Collard

  Belgian minister of Education...

• Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff

  French professional wrestler, dies of...

• Halsey S Colchester

  British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at age...

• Willem R "Wim" van der Zee

  General-Secretary Council of Churches,...

• Julian Hill

  research chemist, dies at age 91.

• Olga Havlova

  political activist, dies at age 63.

• Nishinoumi Kajiro II

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 25th...

• Maurice Vincent Buckley

  Australian soldier (Born 1891).

• Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius (Matulewicz)

  Lithuanian bishop (Born 1871).

• Virgil ''Gus'' Grissom

  Crew of Apollo 1 (Born 1926).

• William Nolde

  last American combat casualty of Vietnam...

• Qalander Ba Ba Auliya

  Sufi master (Born 1898).

• Andre the Giant

  French professional wrestler and actor...

• Stavros Damianides

  Greek musician (Born 1941).

• Henryk Jab?onski

  President of Poland (Born 1909).

• Shah A M S Kibria

  Finance Minister of Bangladesh (Born...

• Yang Chuan-kwang

  Taiwanese athlete (Born 1933).

• Alberta Davis

  American supercentenerian ( b. 1881).

• Louie Welch

  mayor of Houston (Born 1918).

• Jacobo Arbenz

  Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, nicknamed...

• Roger Chaffee

  American astronaut who died, along with...

• Barbara Skelton

  English memoirist, novelist and...

• Richard Courant

  German-American mathematician and...

• Thomas Sopwith

  English ice hockey player sailor and...

• Rita Angus

  New Zealand painter (Born 1908).

• Tige Andrews

  American actor (Born 1920).

• Louis Archambault

  Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).

• Clara Solovera

  Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1992).

• Kaarel Eenpalu

  Estonian journalist and politician 6th...

• Gene McFadden

  American singer-songwriter and producer...

• Bayani Casimiro

  Filipino dancer and actor (Born 1918).

• Marie Verstraete

  Actress (Frou-Frou / Nora), dies at 74.

• Bill Walsh

  American screenwriter and producer (d....

• Erich Kleiber

  Austrian conductor and director (d....

• Jean Hure

  Composer, dies at 52.

• Iver Paul Fredrik Holter

  Composer, dies at 90.

• Boris Asafiev

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Paul-Marie Masson

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Ernst Penzoldt

  Writer.

• Lieb Glantz

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Edward Higgins White II

  Lt Col USAF / Astronaut (Gemini 4), dies...

• Virgil I (Gus) Grissom

  Astronaut, dies at 40 in Apollo I fire.

• Georgios Grivas

  Greek General/opposition leader on...

• Gerald Marks

  American songwriter (All of Me) (Born...

• Salvador Laurel

  Filipino lawyer and politician 5th Prime...

• Endre Ady

  Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919).

• Lou Crosby

  TV announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies...

• Isaac Babel

  Russian language journalist, playwright,...

• Cecil Lewis

  airman/writer, dies at age 98.

• Alphonse Juin

  Marshal of France who became a leading...

• Thomas Crapper

  English inventor (Born 1836).

• Nellie Bly

  American journalist and writer (Born...

• Friedrich Gulda

  Austrian pianist and composer (d. 2000).

• Ralph Yarborough

  American colonel and politician (d....

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2018 Camila Cabello Featuring Young Thug - Havana
• 2017 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
• 2016 Justin Bieber - Sorry
• 2015 Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk!
• 2014 Pitbull Featuring Ke$ha - Timber
• 2013 Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven
• 2012 Rihanna - We Found Love
• 2011 Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me
• 2010 Ke$ha - TiK ToK
• 2009 Lady GaGa - Just Dance
• 2008 Flo Rida - Low
• 2007 Beyonce - Irreplaceable
• 2006 Nelly - Grillz
• 2005 Mario - Let Me Love You
• 2004 OutKast - Hey Ya!
• 2003 Eminem - Lose Yourself
• 2002 Usher - U Got It Bad
• 2001 Destiny's Child - Independent Women Part I
• 2000 Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
• 1999 Britney Spears - ..Baby One More Time
• 1998 Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
• 1997 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
• 1996 Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
• 1995 TLC - Creep
• 1994 Bryan Adams - All For Love
• 1993 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
• 1992 Color Me Badd - All 4 Love
• 1991 Surface - The First Time
• 1990 Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You
• 1989 Phil Collins - Two Hearts
• 1988 INXS - Need You Tonight
• 1987 Billy Vera - At This Moment (Live)
• 1986 Dionne & Friends - That's What Friends Are For
• 1985 Madonna - Like A Virgin
• 1984 Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
• 1983 Men At Work - Down Under
• 1982 Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
• 1981 John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over
• 1980 Michael Jackson - Rock With You
• 1979 Chic - Le Freak
• 1978 Player - Baby Come Back
• 1977 Rose Royce - Car Wash
• 1976 Diana Ross - Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)
• 1975 Carpenters - Please Mr. Postman
• 1974 Ringo Starr - You're Sixteen
• 1973 Stevie Wonder - Superstition
• 1972 Don McLean - American Pie (Parts 1 and 2)
• 1971 Dawn - Knock Three Times
• 1970 B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
• 1969 Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
• 1968 John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise (With Glasses)
• 1967 The Monkees - I'm A Believer
• 1966 The Beatles - We Can Work It Out
• 1965 Petula Clark - Downtown
• 1964 Bobby Vinton - There! I've Said It Again
• 1963 The Rooftop Singers - Walk Right In
• 1962 Joey Dee & the Starliters - Peppermint Twist - Part 1
• 1961 Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Wonderland By Night
• 1960 Johnny Preston - Running Bear
• 1959 The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
• 1958 Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2018 Imagine Dragons - Thunder
• 2017 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Stressed Out
• 2015 Hozier - Take Me To Church
• 2014 Passenger - Let Her Go
• 2013 The Lumineers - Ho Hey
• 2012 The Black Keys - Lonely Boy
• 2011 The Black Keys - Tighten Up
• 2010 Three Days Grace - Break