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This day in history: 27 January

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358 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 27 January.
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2023: An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Angela Merici

Christian feast day: Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini

Christian feast day: Devota (Monaco)

Christian feast day: Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló

Christian feast day: January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)

Christian feast day: Sava (Serbia)

Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Memorial Day (Italy)

Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances: Other Holocaust Memorial Days observances

Events

2023An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.

2023A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.

2023Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, wh

2017A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.

2014Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.

2013Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

2011Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.

2011Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.

2010Apple announces the iPad.

2010The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

2003The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

2002An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.

1996Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

1996In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.

1983The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.

1980Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.

1973The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.

1967Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

1967Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful

1965South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.

1961The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.

1951Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.

1945World War II: The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

1944World War II: The 872-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

1943World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.

1939First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

1928Bundaberg tragedy: a diphtheria vaccine is contaminated with Staph. aureus bacterium, resulting in the deaths of twelve children in the Australian town of Bundaberg.

1927Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.

1924Six days after his death, Vladimir Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.

1918Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.

1916World War I: The British government passes the Military Service Act that introduces conscription in the United Kingdom.

1880Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.

1874Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg.

1869Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.

1868Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions; it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.

1825The 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".

1820A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.

1785The University of Georgia is founded, the first state-chartered public university in the United States.

1776American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1759Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.

Born on this day

2003Park Seong-hoon, South Korean footballer

2000Aurélien Tchouaméni, French footballer

2000Morgan Gibbs-White, English footballer

1998Devin Druid, American actor

1996Braeden Lemasters, American actor, musician, and singer

1995Harrison Reed, English footballer

1994Desiree Becker, German politician

1994Jack Stephens, English footballer

1992Stefano Pettinari, Italian footballer

1991Christian Bickel, German footballer

1991Julio Teherán, Colombian baseball player

1990Tim Beckham, American baseball player

1989Alberto Botía, Spanish footballer

1988Kerlon, Brazilian footballer

1987Anton Shunin, Russian footballer

1987Katy Rose, American singer-songwriter and producer

1986Johan Petro, French basketball player

1985Ruben Amorim, Portuguese footballer and manager

1983Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player

1983Gavin Floyd, American baseball player

1983Lee Grant, English footballer

1983Paulo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player

1982Eva Asderaki, Greek tennis umpire

1981Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player and sportscaster

1981Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player

1980Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player and coach

1980Jiří Welsch, Czech basketball player

1980Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and politician

1979Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer and coach

1979Lonny Baxter, American basketball player

1977Tomi Kallio, Finnish ice hockey player

1976Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer

1976Clint Ford, American screenwriter and voice actor

1976Danielle George, American professor

1976Fred Taylor, American football player

1974Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player and coach

1974Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach

1974Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian skier and biathlete

1973Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (died 2014)

1972Bibi Gaytán, Mexican singer and actress

Died on this day

2022Andy Devine, British TV actor (born 1942)

2021Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian (born 1926)

2021Nunuk Nuraini, Indonesian food scientist (born 1961)

2020Lina Ben Mhenni, Tunisian Internet activist and blogger (born 1983)

2019Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau, German socialite (born 1958)

2018Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA (born 1926)

2018Mort Walker, American cartoonist (born 1923)

2017Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (born 1926)

2017Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (born 1927)

2016Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (born 1930)

2015Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

2015David Landau, English-Israeli journalist (born 1947)

2015Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1935)

2015Larry Winters, American wrestler and trainer (born 1956)

2015Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (born 1927)

2014Epimaco Velasco, Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (born 1935)

2014Paul Zorner, German soldier and pilot (born 1920)

2014Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist (born 1919)

2013Ivan Bodiul, Ukrainian-Russian politician (born 1918)

2013Stanley Karnow, American journalist and historian (born 1925)

2012Greg Cook, American football player and sportscaster (born 1946)

2012Jeannette Hamby, American nurse and politician (born 1933)

2012Kevin White, American politician, 51st Mayor of Boston (born 1929)

2012Ted Dicks, English composer and screenwriter (born 1928)

2011Charlie Callas, American comedian and musician (born 1927)

2010Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist (born 1922)

2010J. D. Salinger, American soldier and author (born 1919)

2010Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (born 1933)

2009John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (born 1932)

2009R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and politician, 8th President of India (born 1910)

Quote of the day

“Confine yourself to the present.”

Marcus Aurelius

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