January 27

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on January 27. From 1900 until now. January 27 is under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Mike Patton (1968), Rosamund Pike (1979) and Marat Safin (1980). Several movies were released around January 27 over the years, such as La Dolce Vita in 1960 directed by Federico Fellini and Patton in 1970 directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.
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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

Mike Patton: Metal Singer.
Rosamund Pike: British actress.
Marat Safin: Russian tennis player and politician.
Bridget Fonda: American actress and member of the...
Mikhail Baryshnikov: Dancer.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Alan Cumming: Scottish actor and comedian, star of a...
Mimi Rogers: American actress.
Mohamed Al-Fayed: Egyptian businessman.
Arpad Busson: Businessman.
Georges Mathieu: French eccentric painter.
Nick Mason: Drummer.
Karen Velez: Rockville Centre, New York -- Playmate...
James Cromwell: American actor and producer.
Lil Jon: American rapper.
Eliette Abécassis: French professor of philosophy and...
Bobby Deol: Indian actor and singer.
Ingrid Thulin: Swedish actress (d. 2004).
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.
Donna Reed: American actor most noted for her...
Fann Wong
Susanna Thompson: American actress.
Lily Donaldson: English model.
John Eccles (neurophysiologist)
Claude Labbé: French politician, Deputy for the...
Mark Owen: English pop singer.
Steve Wynn (entrepreneur)
John G Roberts: American jurist and the 17th Chief...
Rico Barbès
Frank Miller: United States -- Comicbook writer...
Frank Miller: United States -- Comicbook writer...
Brugh Joy: American author and teacher on Awareness...
Gabriele Galassi
Alexander (magician)
Alicia Molik: Australian tennis player.
Ernst Schröder (actor)
Patton Oswalt: American actor and writer.
Wen Liu
Marie Daëms
Troy Donahue: American actor and singer (d. 2001).
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).
Alex Norton: Scottish television and film actor.
Willie Lamothe
Katy Rose: American singer-songwriter and producer.
Henri Perruchot
Frank Augustyn: Canadian ballet dancer; a foremost prize...
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...
Giovanni Arpino
Benay Venuta: San Francisco, California -- Actress...
Phil Cunningham
Philip Caldwell: American business executive.
Jean-Michel Damase: Composer.
Raymond Boudon: French sociologist, professor at the...
Tamlyn Tomita: Okinawa, Japan -- Actress (Karate Kid 2,...
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Brian Rix: English actor producer and academic.
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...
Squeezie : YouTube Star.
John Ogdon: Manchester, England -- Pianist /...
Matt Stover: American football player.
Jonathan Byrd (golfer)
Maurice (radio host)
Hannah Teter: American snowboarder.
Caroline Vigneaux
Amy Hargreaves
Valyantsin Byalkevich: Belarusian footballer and manager (d....
Devin Druid: Actor.
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Famous Deaths

J D Salinger: American novelist (Born 1919).
Mahalia Jackson: New Orleans, Louisiana -- Gospel singer...
John Updike: American writer, a prolific novelist and...
Jean Tardieu: French TV Director of the Study Channel...
Howard Zinn: American historian author and activist...
Lilli Palmer: German actress, with numerous awards and...
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...
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...
Lou Crosby: TV announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies...
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.
Cecil Lewis: airman/writer, dies at age 98.
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...
Isaac Babel: Russian language journalist, playwright,...
Marie Verstraete: Actress (Frou-Frou / Nora), dies at 74.
Alphonse Juin: Marshal of France who became a leading...
Barbara Skelton: English memoirist, novelist and...
Thomas Crapper: English inventor (Born 1836).
Richard Courant: German-American mathematician and...
Thomas Sopwith: English ice hockey player sailor and...
John Farrow: Australian-American director producer...
Rita Angus: New Zealand painter (Born 1908).
Tige Andrews: American actor (Born 1920).
Louis Archambault: Canadian sculptor (d. 2003).
Nellie Bly: American journalist and writer (Born...
Clara Solovera: Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1992).
Friedrich Gulda: Austrian pianist and composer (d. 2000).
Kaarel Eenpalu: Estonian journalist and politician 6th...
Zelda Rubinstein: American actress and activist (d. 2010).
Ralph Yarborough: American colonel and politician (d....
Gene McFadden: American singer-songwriter and producer...
Georgios Grivas: Greek General/opposition leader on...
Bayani Casimiro: Filipino dancer and actor (Born 1918).
Erich Kleiber: Austrian conductor and director (d....
Bill Walsh: American screenwriter and producer (d....
Gerald Marks: American songwriter (All of Me) (Born...
Salvador Laurel: Filipino lawyer and politician 5th Prime...
Endre Ady: Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919).
Roger Chaffee: American astronaut who died, along with...
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.
Charles Winninger: Actor (Charlie Farrell Show), dies at...
Hanns Jelinek: Composer, dies at 67.
Ed Ford: Comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at...
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