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| Birthday January 27, 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musical prodigy and Salzburg Austria |
| Birthday January 27, 1823 Edouard Lalo, French composer (Symphonie espagnole) |
| Birthday January 27, 1832 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (you know him as Lewis Carroll) |
| Birthday January 27, 1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919) |
| Birthday January 27, 1850 Samuel Gompers, 1st pres of AFL |
| Birthday January 27, 1885 Jerome Kern, Broadway composer |
| Birthday January 27, 1891 Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet writer |
| Birthday January 27, 1894 Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26) |
| Birthday January 27, 1900 Admiral Hyman G Rickover, father of modern nuclear navy |
| Birthday January 27, 1901 Art Rooney, NFL team owner (Pittsburgh) |
| Birthday January 27, 1911 Benay Venuta, Actress |
| Birthday January 27, 1918 Skitch Henderson, Bandleader |
| Birthday January 27, 1921 Donna Reed, in Denison Iowa |
| Birthday January 27, 1927 Joe Perry, AAFC and NFL fullback (SF 49ers and Baltimore Colts) |
| Birthday January 27, 1929 Ingrid Thulin, in Sweden |
| Birthday January 27, 1936 Troy Donahue, Actor (Cockfighter and Grandview USA) |
| History January 27, 1302 Dante is exiled from Florence |
| History January 27, 1736 Abdication of Stanislas King of Poland |
| History January 27, 1785 Georgia incorporates the first state university |
| History January 27, 1862 Lincoln orders armies to advance |
| History January 27, 1880 Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp |
| History January 27, 1888 National Geographic Society founded in Washington DC |
| History January 27, 1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park |
| History January 27, 1915 US Marines occupy Haiti |
| History January 27, 1918 Workers prepare to strike in Germany |
| History January 27, 1926 Baird demonstrates TV |
| History January 27, 1926 1st public TV demonstration |
| History January 27, 1943 Reagan serves in film unit |
| History January 27, 1943 Americans bomb Germans for first time |
| History January 27, 1944 Siege of Leningrad is lifted |
| History January 27, 1948 1st locomotive to carry 1 000 000 pounds operated |
| History January 27, 1948 1st Tape Recorder is sold |
| History January 27, 1951 First atomic detonation at the Nevada test site |
| History January 27, 1964 Sen Margaret Chase Smith of Maine tried for Republican Pres bid |
| History January 27, 1964 Introducing the Beatles" album released in US |
| History January 27, 1965 Shelby GT 350 debuts |
| History January 27, 1965 Groundbreaking for 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue |
| History January 27, 1967 Donald Evans earns Medal of Honor |
| History January 27, 1967 Astronauts die in launch pad fire |
| History January 27, 1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom White & Chaffee |
| History January 27, 1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed |
| History January 27, 1970 John Lennon writes and records Instant Karma in a single day |
| History January 27, 1971 Montgomery St Station last link in BART 'holed thru' |
| History January 27, 1973 Paris Peace Accords signed |
| History January 27, 1973 U.S. officially ends participation in a Cold War conflict |
| History January 27, 1973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire ending longest US war & milt draft |
| History January 27, 1975 Senate investigation of FBI and CIA activities begins |
| History January 27, 1977 Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10 000) |
| History January 27, 1978 The so-called Dracula killer |
| History January 27, 1979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) |
| History January 27, 1985 Fifteenth Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 3 returns to Earth |
| History January 27, 1991 Somali dictator flees |
| History January 27, 1996 Monica Seles wins first Grand Slam title since being attacked |
| History January 27, 2002 Explosions trigger deadly panic in Nigeria |
| History January 27, 2004 Thirteen-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes nominated for Best Actress Oscar |
| History January 27, 2010 The Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger dies |