WillDekkard
01-27-2010, 04:03 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- January 27th
* 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.
* 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 Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
* 1606 Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy ****es and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
* 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 Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
* 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
* 1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
* 1918 The first hostilities occur in the Finnish Civil War.
* 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
* 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 Apollo program: Apollo 1 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
* 1967 More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
* 1973 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 floods causing the largest flood to affect Brisbane City 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.
* 1983 Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
* 1984 Pop singer Michael Jackson suffer second and third degree burn on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
* 1996 Colonel Ibrahim Barι Maοnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
* 1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
* 2006 Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
- January 27th
* 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.
* 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 Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
* 1606 Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy ****es and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
* 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 Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.
* 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
* 1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
* 1918 The first hostilities occur in the Finnish Civil War.
* 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
* 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 Apollo program: Apollo 1 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
* 1967 More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
* 1973 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 floods causing the largest flood to affect Brisbane City 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.
* 1983 Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
* 1984 Pop singer Michael Jackson suffer second and third degree burn on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
* 1996 Colonel Ibrahim Barι Maοnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
* 1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
* 2006 Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.