Historical Events and Current Affairs on January 27

1593: Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1662: 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1785: 1st US state university chartered, Athens Georgia
1864: Battle of Fair Gardens, TN
1864: Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
1870: 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana)
1870: After accepting 15th amendment, VA is readmitted to Union
1886: 1st British govt of Salisbury resigns
1888: National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC)
1891: Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
1894: 1st college basketball game, U of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1894: Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
1897: British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
1900: Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
1902: 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (NYC)
1915: US Marines occupy Haiti
1918: "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1926: 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
1926: US Senate agrees to join World Court
1934: 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61)
1934: VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe
1940: -17øF (-27øC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
1942: -19øF (-27.4øC), Netherland's coldest day since 1850
1943: 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
1944: Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
1945: Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
1945: Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
1945: Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested
1948: 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates
1948: 1st tape recorder sold
1949: Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China
1950: 2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win
1951: "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
1951: US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1955: "Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 476 perfs
1956: NFL's NY Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium
1961: "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1961: Jean-Paul Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Oly-9/10-88, 92, 96)
1962: "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 65 performances
1964: "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
1964: Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval
1965: 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
1966: stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966
1966: Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves
1967: Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee
1967: Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records
1967: New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker)
1967: Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1968: "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 perfs
1969: 14 spies hung in Baghdad
1969: 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria
1969: Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
1970: Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1971: Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'
1973: UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)
1973: US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war & milt draft
1973: William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty
1974: "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 320 performances
1976: "Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
1976: 9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver
1976: Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara
1977: 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
1977: Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1979: 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda
1979: Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
1980: "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 45 perfs
1980: NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27
1982: "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale NYC for 747 perfs
1982: West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1983: World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
1984: LA Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak
1984: Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
1985: "Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 perf
1985: 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1985: NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14
1986: 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle
1987: Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
1989: Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
1990: 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
1991: 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64)
1991: Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, NY Giants, RB
1991: Superbowl XXV: NY Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa
1992: "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 7 perfs
1992: other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1993: DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
1994: "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
1994: Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
1995: 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
1996: 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies
1996: 70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)
1996: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
1997: "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin NYC
1997: 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win
1998: Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime)
1998: WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock

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