WillDekkard
01-27-2011, 04:25 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on
This Date in History - January 27th
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* 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 The 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 The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
* 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.
* 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
* 1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
* 1927 Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
* 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1961 Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
* 1967 Apollo program: Apollo 1 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
* 1967 More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
* 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.
* 1983 The 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 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 Barι Maοnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
* 1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
* 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.
* 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
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Happy Birthday Ms. Pike !
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Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Mary E. Pike (born 27 January 1979)
This Date in History - January 27th
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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 The 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 The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
* 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.
* 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
* 1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
* 1927 Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
* 1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1961 Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
* 1967 Apollo program: Apollo 1 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
* 1967 More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
* 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.
* 1983 The 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 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 Barι Maοnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
* 1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
* 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.
* 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
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Happy Birthday Ms. Pike !
http://www.satfix.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=8543&d=1296102212
Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Mary E. Pike (born 27 January 1979)