January 27st Events |
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| January 27th, 1998 (January 27 1998) | Event | Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva. | |
| January 27th, 1996 (January 27 1996) | Event | Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup. | |
| January 27th, 1996 (January 27 1996) | Event | Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day. | |
| January 27th, 1983 (January 27 1983) | Event | Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world s longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido breaks through. | |
| January 27th, 1974 (January 27 1974) | Event | Brisbane river has the largest flood in the 20th Century | |
| January 27th, 1973 (January 27 1973) | Event | Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflict s last recorded American combat casualty. | |
| January 27th, 1967 (January 27 1967) | Event | Apollo program: Apollo Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center. | Edward Kennedy Quotes |
| January 27th, 1967 (January 27 1967) | Event | More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space. | |
| January 27th, 1951 (January 27 1951) | Event | Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats. | |
| January 27th, 1945 (January 27 1945) | Event | World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. | |
| January 27th, 1944 (January 27 1944) | Event | World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted. | |
| January 27th, 1939 (January 27 1939) | Event | First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. | |
| January 27th, 1918 (January 27 1918) | Event | The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War. | |
| January 27th, 1909 (January 27 1909) | Event | The Young Left is founded in Norway. | |
| January 27th, 1888 (January 27 1888) | Event | In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded. | |
| January 27th, 1870 (January 27 1870) | Event | The first women s fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University. | |
| January 27th, 1825 (January 27 1825) | Event | 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." | |
| January 27th, 1785 (January 27 1785) | Event | The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States. | |
| January 27th, 1695 (January 27 1695) | Event | Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703. | |
| January 27th, 1606 (January 27 1606) | Event | Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31. | Guy Fawkes Quotes |
| January 27th, 1593 (January 27 1593) | Event | Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno. | Giordano Bruno Quotes |
| January 27th, 1343 (January 27 1343) | Event | Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus. | |
| January 27th, 1186 (January 27 1186) | Event | Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily. | |
| January 27th, 1142 (January 27 1142) | Event | Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei. | |
