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

  • 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.
  • 1695 –
    Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
  • 1785 –
    The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
  • 1825 –
    The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
  • 1870 –
    The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
  • 1888 –
    The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshafen, Germany. The first American bombing attack on Germany.
  • 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.
  • 1952 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 1980 –
    Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper.
  • 1984 –
    Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
  • 2003 –
    The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
  • 2006 –
    Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.

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