On This Date: January 27

On This Date in History: January 27

1606 – The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began
1825 – The United States Congress approved the formation of the Indian Territory, now Oklahoma
1870 – The first college sorority was formed, Kappa Alpha Theta, at DePauw University
1888 – The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, DC
1926 – John Baird, a Scottish inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called television
1945 – Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland
1951 – Nuclear testing began at the Nevada Test Site
1967 – At Cape Kennedy, Florida, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft
1967 – More than 60 nations signed the Outer Space Treaty, which banned the orbiting of nuclear weapons and placing weapons on celestial bodies or space stations
1973 – The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris, officially ending the Vietnam War
1976 – Laverne and Shirley debuted on ABC-TV
1992 – Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest
1993 – Professional wrestler Andre the Giant died at the age of 46
1996 – Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was overthrown by a military coup
1996 – Germany observed its first Holocaust Remembrance Day
2001 – Ten members of the Oklahoma State University’s men’s basketball team died in a plane crash in Colorado


Famous Birthdays for January 27:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, Lewis Carroll 1832, Edward J. Smith 1850, Wilhelm II of Germany 1859, Art Rooney 1901, William Randolph Hearst Jr. 1908, Donna Reed 1921, Troy Donahue 1936, James Cromwell 1940, Mikhail Baryshnikov 1948, Peter Laird 1954, John Roberts Jr. 1954, Mimi Rogers 1956, Frank Miller 1957, Chris Collinsworth 1959, Keith Olbermann 1959, Bridget Fonda 1964, Tracy Lawrence 1968, Josh Groban 1981


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