January 27
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1832 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1888 - The National Geographic Society was incorporated in Washington, D.C.
1944 - The Soviet Union announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II.
1945 - The Soviet Union liberated the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Poland, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including more than 1 million Jews.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force started atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
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 Kennedy.
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.
1998 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Today" show, said that allegations against her husband 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 - J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," died in Cornish, New Hampshire at age 91.
2013 - Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil, killing 242 people.
2017 - President Donald Trump barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months — and those from war-ravaged Syria indefinitely — declaring the ban necessary to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” from entering the nation.
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.
2021 - In an effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders to transform the nation’s heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one, pausing oil and gas leasing on federal land and targeting subsidies for those industries.
Birthdays
24 - Lucki Starr (singer)
26 - Braeden Lemasters (actor)
42 - Marat Safin (tennis player)
43 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
44 - Kevin Denney (singer)
50 - Josh Randall (actor)
53 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
54 - Tracy Lawrence (singer)
57 - Alan Cumming (actor)
58 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
59 - Tamlyn Tomita (actress)
63 - Keith Olbermann (TV host)
64 - Susanna Thompson (actress)
66 - Mimi Rogers (actress)
67 - Richard Young (singer)
67 - Cheryl White (singer)
67 - John Roberts (Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court)
74 - Mikhail Baryshnikov (ballet dancer)
82 - 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.
1966 - A Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge rules that the Braves baseball franchise must stay in Milwaukee, or the National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966.
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.
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.
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1832 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1888 - The National Geographic Society was incorporated in Washington, D.C.
1944 - The Soviet Union announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II.
1945 - The Soviet Union liberated the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Poland, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including more than 1 million Jews.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force started atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
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 Kennedy.
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.
1998 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Today" show, said that allegations against her husband 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 - J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," died in Cornish, New Hampshire at age 91.
2013 - Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil, killing 242 people.
2017 - President Donald Trump barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months — and those from war-ravaged Syria indefinitely — declaring the ban necessary to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” from entering the nation.
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.
2021 - In an effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders to transform the nation’s heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one, pausing oil and gas leasing on federal land and targeting subsidies for those industries.
Birthdays
24 - Lucki Starr (singer)
26 - Braeden Lemasters (actor)
42 - Marat Safin (tennis player)
43 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
44 - Kevin Denney (singer)
50 - Josh Randall (actor)
53 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
54 - Tracy Lawrence (singer)
57 - Alan Cumming (actor)
58 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
59 - Tamlyn Tomita (actress)
63 - Keith Olbermann (TV host)
64 - Susanna Thompson (actress)
66 - Mimi Rogers (actress)
67 - Richard Young (singer)
67 - Cheryl White (singer)
67 - John Roberts (Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court)
74 - Mikhail Baryshnikov (ballet dancer)
82 - 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.
1966 - A Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge rules that the Braves baseball franchise must stay in Milwaukee, or the National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966.
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.
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.
