27 January In History - What Happened On This Day

According to Gregory calendar, January 27 is the day number 27 in a given year. January 27 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.

Event Year	Incident/Event
1142	Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
1343	Pope Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.
1756	Britain and Prussia signed the Treaty of Westminster.
1785	The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, one of the oldest public universities in the United States, was founded.
1841	Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica, was discovered and established under the name James Clark Ross.
1868	Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.
1880	Thomas Alva Edison patented the electric bulb.
1888	The National Geographic Society, publisher of National Geographic magazine, was incorporated in Washington, D.C., as 'a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge'.
1891	109 people were killed in a mine explosion in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
1897	British troops captured Bida Gold Cost of Ghana.
1900	German researcher Felix Hafmann made pain medicine for the first time. This drug is currently called aspirin.
1905	Maurice Rouviere formed the government in France.
1926	Scottish scientist John Logie Baird demonstrated television to the world. It was named Televisor at that time.
1943	The US launched an air strike on Germany for the first time.
1944	World War II-The Soviet Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive successfully lifted the Siege of Leningrad, 872 days after it began.
1945	The Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim,Poland.
1948	First tape recorder sold for the first time.
1959	The foundation stone of the first College of Engineering and Technology was laid in New Delhi.
1967	The Apollo 1 spacecraft was destroyed by fire at the Kennedy Space Center, killing astronaut Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
1969	In Baghdad, 14 people were sentenced to death for espionage.
1974	President VV Giri dedicated the Nehru Memorial Museum at Teen Murti in New Delhi to the nation.
1974	The Brisbane River, which runs through the heart of Brisbane,broke its banks and flooded the surrounding areas.
1976	The first battle of Amgala in the Spanish Sahara ended between Morocco and Algeria.
1980	With the assistance of Canadian government officials, six American diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to Zurich, Switzerland.
1988	The helicopter postal service was inaugurated for the first time.
1993	An accident took 12 lives due to Dc-3 crash in Kinshasa. It caused a lot of damage.
1993	American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Taro became the first foreigner to reach the rank of yokozuna (grand champion).
1994	Romanian social democrats formed government with anti Semitic.
1995	In the 69th Australian Women's Tennis opens Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
1996	Germany celebrated Holocaust for the first time as Remembrance Day. It was amazing news for the country.
1996	Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.
1997	Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette won the 24th American Music Award.
1998	10 injured due to Crane crash in Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram causing 10 injuries.
2002	An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, killed at least 1,100 people and displaced over 20,000 others.
2003	The first selections for the National Recording Registry wereannounced by the U.S. Library of Congress.
2008	96 Women's Australian Open: Maria Sharapova defeated Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-3).
2011	Burma has been criticized for its Human rights record by the United Nation Human Rights Council.
2011	Arab Spring-The Yemeni Revolution began as over 16,000 protestors demonstrated in Sana'a to demand governmental changes.
2012	The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged. He calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest.
2013	The Serbian tennis pro Novak Djokovic achieved a four-set victory over opponent Andy Murray. He won the men's singles at the 2013 Australian Open.
2013	Seven people died and 630 people were injured during protests in Egypt.
2014	The U.S. postal service has taken initiative to increase the rate in postage. This has been approved in last December and the price of first class postage is increased from 46 cents to 49 cents.
447	An earthquake destroyed large sections of the Walls of Constantinople.

Birth Year	Name/Category/Country
1886	Radhabinod Pal / Academic / India
1922	Ajit Khan / Actor / India
1926	Arun Shridhar Vaidya / Soldier / India
1977	Deepshikha Nagpal / Actress / India

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