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 the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force began atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - Astronauts Virgil I. ''Gus'' Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft at Cape Canaveral.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
1973 - The Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
1984 - Singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
1998 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Today" show, said that allegations against her husband, President Bill Clinton, were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
2006 - Western Union delivered its last telegram.
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco.
2010 - Author J.D. Salinger died in Cornish, New Hampshire at age 91.
2011 - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that color-coded terror alerts would be phased out by late April 2011.
2016 - The Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department agreed to overhaul its policies, training and practices as part of a sweeping deal with the Justice Department following the 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
2020 - China confirmed more than 2,700 cases of the new coronavirus with more than 80 deaths in that country; authorities postponed the end of the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home. U.S. health officials said they believed the risk to Americans remained low and that they had no evidence that the new virus was spreading in the United States; they advised Americans to avoid non-essential travel to any part of China.
2020 - Senators faced increasing pressure to summon former national security adviser John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, after a draft of Bolton’s forthcoming book said Trump had wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it helped investigate Democrat Joe Biden; Trump denied having said that to Bolton.
Birthdays
25 - Braeden Lemasters (actor)
32 - Daisy Lowe (model)
43 - Kevin Denney (country singer)
49 - Josh Randall (actor)
52 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
53 - Tracy Lawrence (country singer)
56 - Alan Cumming (actor)
57 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
58 - Tamlyn Tomita (actress)
62 - Keith Olbermann (political and sports commentator)
63 - Susanna Thompson (actress)
65 - Mimi Rogers (actress)
66 - Cheryl White (country singer)
66 - John Roberts (chief justice of the United States)
73 - Mikhail Baryshnikov (ballet dancer)
81 - James Cromwell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick and John Clarkson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1970 - The Pittsburgh Steelers select Louisiana Tech quarterback Terry Bradshaw with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1973 - The UCLA Bruins won their 61st consecutive game to break the NCAA record held by the University of San Francisco.
1984 - Carl Lewis beat his own two-year-old record by 9-1/4 inches when he set a new indoor world record with a long-jump mark of 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches.
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 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XXV; Giants running back Otis Anderson is named MVP.
1992 - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America pageant. (He is later found guilty and sent to prison.)
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 the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force began atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - Astronauts Virgil I. ''Gus'' Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft at Cape Canaveral.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
1973 - The Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
1984 - Singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
1998 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Today" show, said that allegations against her husband, President Bill Clinton, were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."
2006 - Western Union delivered its last telegram.
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco.
2010 - Author J.D. Salinger died in Cornish, New Hampshire at age 91.
2011 - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that color-coded terror alerts would be phased out by late April 2011.
2016 - The Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department agreed to overhaul its policies, training and practices as part of a sweeping deal with the Justice Department following the 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
2020 - China confirmed more than 2,700 cases of the new coronavirus with more than 80 deaths in that country; authorities postponed the end of the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home. U.S. health officials said they believed the risk to Americans remained low and that they had no evidence that the new virus was spreading in the United States; they advised Americans to avoid non-essential travel to any part of China.
2020 - Senators faced increasing pressure to summon former national security adviser John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, after a draft of Bolton’s forthcoming book said Trump had wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it helped investigate Democrat Joe Biden; Trump denied having said that to Bolton.
Birthdays
25 - Braeden Lemasters (actor)
32 - Daisy Lowe (model)
43 - Kevin Denney (country singer)
49 - Josh Randall (actor)
52 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
53 - Tracy Lawrence (country singer)
56 - Alan Cumming (actor)
57 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
58 - Tamlyn Tomita (actress)
62 - Keith Olbermann (political and sports commentator)
63 - Susanna Thompson (actress)
65 - Mimi Rogers (actress)
66 - Cheryl White (country singer)
66 - John Roberts (chief justice of the United States)
73 - Mikhail Baryshnikov (ballet dancer)
81 - James Cromwell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick and John Clarkson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1970 - The Pittsburgh Steelers select Louisiana Tech quarterback Terry Bradshaw with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1973 - The UCLA Bruins won their 61st consecutive game to break the NCAA record held by the University of San Francisco.
1984 - Carl Lewis beat his own two-year-old record by 9-1/4 inches when he set a new indoor world record with a long-jump mark of 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches.
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 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XXV; Giants running back Otis Anderson is named MVP.
1992 - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America pageant. (He is later found guilty and sent to prison.)
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.
