January 27
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1944 - The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad.
1945 - The Soviets liberated Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including more than 1 million Jews, during World War II.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force began atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in a flash fire during a simulated launch aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1973 - Peace accords were signed in Paris bringing an end to the Vietnam War.
1984 - Singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
2013 - A fire started by pyrotechnics in the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, killed 242 people and injured more than 600.
2017 - President Donald Trump barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, declaring the ban necessary to prevent "radical Islamic terrorists" from entering the country.
Birthdays
25 - Bailey Zimmerman (singer)
26 - Joely Live (model)
26 - Yasmine Lopez (model)
27 - Lucki Starr (singer)
31 - Georgina Rodriguez (model)
39 - Jessica Dime (rapper)
46 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
56 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
57 - Tricky (rapper)
57 - Mike Patton (singer)
57 - Tracy Lawrence (singer)
60 - Alan Cumming (actor)
61 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
70 - John Roberts (Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court)
77 - Mikhail Baryshnikov (dancer)
81 - Nick Mason (musician)
85 - James Cromwell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1894 - In the first collegiate basketball game, the University of Chicago defeats Chicago YMCA, 19-11.
1966 - A Wisconsin state circuit court judge rules that the Braves baseball team must stay in Milwaukee, or the National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion franchise for 1966.
1973 - The UCLA Bruins won their 61st consecutive game to break the NCAA record held by the University of San Francisco.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky set a National Hockey League (NHL) record for consecutive game scoring. He ended the streak at 51 games the next night against the Los Angeles Kings. The streak began on October 5, 1983.
1991 - The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 to win Super Bowl XXV.
1992 - Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest.
2002 - The Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL team to score 10,000 home goals. The feat was achieved in the Canadiens' 2,675th regular season game. The goal was scored by Sergei Berezin who had come to the team only two days before from the Phoenix Coyotes.
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1944 - The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad.
1945 - The Soviets liberated Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including more than 1 million Jews, during World War II.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force began atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died in a flash fire during a simulated launch aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1973 - Peace accords were signed in Paris bringing an end to the Vietnam War.
1984 - Singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
2013 - A fire started by pyrotechnics in the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, killed 242 people and injured more than 600.
2017 - President Donald Trump barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, declaring the ban necessary to prevent "radical Islamic terrorists" from entering the country.
Birthdays
25 - Bailey Zimmerman (singer)
26 - Joely Live (model)
26 - Yasmine Lopez (model)
27 - Lucki Starr (singer)
31 - Georgina Rodriguez (model)
39 - Jessica Dime (rapper)
46 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
56 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
57 - Tricky (rapper)
57 - Mike Patton (singer)
57 - Tracy Lawrence (singer)
60 - Alan Cumming (actor)
61 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
70 - John Roberts (Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court)
77 - Mikhail Baryshnikov (dancer)
81 - Nick Mason (musician)
85 - James Cromwell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1894 - In the first collegiate basketball game, the University of Chicago defeats Chicago YMCA, 19-11.
1966 - A Wisconsin state circuit court judge rules that the Braves baseball team must stay in Milwaukee, or the National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion franchise for 1966.
1973 - The UCLA Bruins won their 61st consecutive game to break the NCAA record held by the University of San Francisco.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky set a National Hockey League (NHL) record for consecutive game scoring. He ended the streak at 51 games the next night against the Los Angeles Kings. The streak began on October 5, 1983.
1991 - The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 to win Super Bowl XXV.
1992 - Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest.
2002 - The Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL team to score 10,000 home goals. The feat was achieved in the Canadiens' 2,675th regular season game. The goal was scored by Sergei Berezin who had come to the team only two days before from the Phoenix Coyotes.
