About January 27
January 27, 2025 is the 27th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 2 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 27
- 1142 –Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
- 1186 –Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
- 1343 –Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
- 1593 –The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
- 1785 –The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
- 1868 –Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
- 1870 –The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
- 1888 –The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- 1939 –First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
- 1945 –World War II: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
- 1961 –Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
- 1967 –Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
- 1967 –The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
- 1973 –The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
- 1974 –The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th Century
- 1990 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
- 1993 –American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
- 1996 –In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
- 2006 –Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
- 2010 –The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
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