About January 27
January 27, 2024 is the 27th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 339 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 14 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 27
- 98 –Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
- 661 –The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.
- 1142 –Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
- 1343 –Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
- 1593 –The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
- 1606 –Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
- 1785 –The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
- 1870 –The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
- 1927 –Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
- 1941 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Snake in Chinese astrology.
- 1944 –World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
- 1945 –World War II: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
- 1951 –Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
- 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.
- 1984 –Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
- 1996 –In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
- 2002 –An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
- 2006 –Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
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