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Today in History ~ January 27
Events1302 - Dante becomes a Florentine political exile [H]
1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1606 - The surviving conspirators in the "Gunpowder Treason" plot to blow up the English Parliament and the king of England on Nov. 5, 1605, went on trial and were convicted. They were executed four days later.
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1736 - Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland
1778 - Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
1823 - Pres Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Wash DC)
1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1924 - Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
1926 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird launched a revolution in communication and entertainment with the first public demonstration of a true television system in London. [H]
1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court
1943 - 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
1948 - 1st tape recorder sold
1951 - "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances
1951 - First atomic detonation at the Nevada test site [H]
1967 - Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chafee. [H]
1969 - 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus, Syria
1970 - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1973 - The United States and North Vietnam signed a cease-fire agreement. The same day, the United States announced an end to the military draft.
1975 - Senate investigation of FBI and CIA activities begins. November 20, the committee released its report, charging both US government agencies with illegal activities.
1976 - "Laverne & Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
1977 - 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
1977 - Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)
1982 - "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale NYC for 747 performances
1987 - President Reagan acknowledged mistakes and accepted responsibility in the Iran arms scandal.
1991 - Muhammad Siyad Barre, the dictator of the Somali Democratic Republic since 1969, flees Mogadishu as rebels overrun his palace and capture the Somali capital.
1991 - U.S. planes bombed the pipelines to Kuwaiti oil fields to cut off the flow of oil into the Persian Gulf.
1993 - President Clinton delayed for six months his campaign pledge to reverse the ban on homosexuals in the military while the issue was studied.
1993 - A disgruntled ex-employee of a Tampa, Fla., insurance company opened fire in a cafeteria, killing three executives and critically wounding two others before fleeing and killing himself.
1995 - A book by O.J. Simpson, "I Want to Tell You," asserted his innocence in the killings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
1996 - Germany commemorates 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
1996 - France conducted an open-air nuclear test in the South Pacific.
1998 - Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (NYC) Tram, injuring 10
1998 - In his State of the Union address, President Clinton hailed the fact that the federal government would have a balanced budget in 1999 -- the first in 30 years.
2000 - President Clinton delivered his final State of the Union address, proclaiming the condition of the nation had never been better.
2002 - The death toll was put at more than 1,000 from the explosion and fire that struck a Nigerian weapons depot in a crowded residential area of Lagos.
Birthdays Today
1556 - Abbas I, "the Great," Shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Theophilus) (composer: Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Symphony #41, Requiem, A Little Night Music)
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro, Don Giovanni)
1823 - Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, France, composer (Symphonie Espagnole)
1832 - Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) (mathematician, writer: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, The Hunting of the Snark)
1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism)
1850 - Samuel Gompers (labor union leader: 1st president of the American Federation of Labor [AFL])
1859 - Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
1885 - Jerome Kern (the father of the American musical: composer: Show Boat, Ol' Man River, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lovely to Look At, The Way You Look Tonight, The Last Time I Saw Paris)
1895 - Harry Ruby (Rubinstein)(musician: composer: Duck Soup)
1900 - Hyman Rickover (Admiral: U.S. Navy: 'Father of the Nuclear Navy' directed development of the Nautilus, the first nuclear reactor-powered submarine)
1908 - William Randolph Hearst Jr. (newspapers: San Francisco Examiner, magazines: Cosmopolitan; Hearst Broadcasting, A&E Television Networks, The History Channel)
1916 - Milt Raskin (pianist, composer)
1918 - Skitch (Lyle) Henderson (bandleader: Musical director of NBC-TV's The Tonight Show with Steve Allen, Johnny Carson; conductor: Tulsa Symphony Orchestra)
1921 - Donna Reed (Mullenger) (actress: From Here to Eternity, It's a Wonderful Life, The Benny Goodman Story, The Donna Reed Show)
1930 - Bobby 'Blue' Bland (singer: That's the Way Love Is, Call on Me, Turn on Your Love Light, Ain't Nothin' You Can Do; original group: The Beale Streeters with Johnny Ace)
1931 - Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
1933 - Mohamed Al Fayed, CEO (Harrods)
1934 - George Follmer (auto racer)
1934 - Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers)
1938 - Troy Donahue (Merle Johnson) (actor: Summer Place, Assault of the Party Nerds, The Godfather: Part 2, The Chilling)
1939 - Mike Hill (golfer)
1947 - Nedra Talley (singer: group: The Ronettes: Be My Baby, Baby I Love You, Do I Love You, Walking in the Rain, [The Best Part of] Breaking Up)
1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov (Bolshoi ballet dancer: defected to U.S.; actor: The Turning Point, That's Dancing, Dancers)
1950 - Russell Lee (basketball)
1952 - Brian Gottfried (tennis)
1959 - Cris Collinsworth (football: Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver: Super Bowl XVI, XXIII; TV football anncr)
Famous deaths
0098 - Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67
1164 - Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies
1629 - Hieronymus Praetorius, composer, dies at 68
1814 - Johann Gottlieb Fichte, philosopher, dies
1851 - John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65, buried in NYC.
1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Rigoletto/Traviata), dies at 87
1910, Thomas Crapper, often described as the prime developer of the flush toilet mechanism as it's known today,
died in England.
1967 - Edward Higgins White II, Lt Col USAF/astronaut, dies at 36 in Apollo I fire [H]
1967 - Roger B Chaffee, astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire [H]
1967 - Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, astronaut, dies at 40 in Apollo I fire [H]
1972 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60
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