Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b. 1756
Austrian pianist and composer
On This Day · The 27th day of the year
January 27
A look at January 27 through the almanac — historic events, famous birthdays including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Wilhelm II, and the day's notable deaths and observances.
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Events
10 notable moments- 2011
Arab Spring
Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.
2010s protests and revolutions - 2003
National Recording Registry
The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
List of sound recordings - 1980
Iran hostage crisis
Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
Occupation of Tehran's U.S. - 1965
Trần Văn Hương
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
Penultimate President of South - 1928
Bundaberg tragedy
Bundaberg tragedy: a diphtheria vaccine is contaminated with Staph. aureus bacterium, resulting in the deaths of twelve children in the Australian town of Bundaberg.
1928 medical disaster - 1785
University of Georgia
The University of Georgia is founded, the first state-chartered public university in the United States.
Public university in Athens, - 1726
Johann Sebastian Bach
J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72, concluding his third Christmas season in Leipzig on the Third Sunday after Epiphany.
German composer (1685–1750) - 1343
Pope Clement VI
Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus, laying out the scriptural justification for indulgences, identifying only the Pope and episcopate as capable of accessing the treasury of merit, and establishing a jubilee year every half century.
Head of the Catholic - 945
Stephen Lekapenos
The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine emperor from 924 - 98
AD 98
Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.
Calendar year
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Famous birthday twins
Born on January 27Wilhelm II
b. 1859
German Emperor during World War I
John Roberts
b. 1955
American lawyer and judge, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
Soong Ching-ling
b. 1893
Chinese politician, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China
Lewis Carroll
b. 1832
English novelist, poet, and mathematician
Tam O'Shaughnessy
b. 1952
American tennis player, psychologist, and academic
David Strauss
b. 1808
German theologian and author
Hans Modrow
b. 1928
Polish-German lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of East Germany
Deaths
- 2006Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, 8th President of Germany
- 1983Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter
- 1982Trần Văn Hương, South Vietnamese politician, 3rd President of South Vietnam, 3rd Vice President of South Vietnam, and 3rd Prime Minister of South Vietnam
- 1901Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer
- 1311Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan
- 98AD 98, Roman emperor
Holidays & observances
- —Christian feast day: Angela Merici
- —Christian feast day: Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini
- —Christian feast day: Devota (Monaco)
- —Christian feast day: Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló
- —Christian feast day: John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)
- —Christian feast day: Sava (Serbia)
- —Christian feast day: January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- —Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)
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