January 27
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1944 - The Soviet Union announced the end of the two-year siege in Leningrad.
1945 - The Russians liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force started atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - The Apollo I fire killed astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
1973 - Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.
1984 - Singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
1998 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Today Show", said that allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad computer tablet during a presentation in San Francisco.
2010 - J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye", died in Cornish, New Hampshire at age 91.
Birthdays
29 - Daisy Lowe (model)
29 - Brooke Butler (actress)
30 - Dorothy Wang (reality star)
31 - Lily Donaldson (model)
34 - Rashidah (reality star)
39 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
46 - Mark Owen (singer)
49 - Patton Oswalt (actor)
76 - John Witherspoon (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1966 - Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966.
1973 - UCLA's men's basketball team wins its 61st consecutive game, breaking the old record of 60 set by the University of San Francisco.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky set a National Hockey League (NHL) record for consecutive game scoring. He ended the streak at 51 games the next night against the Los Angeles Kings. The streak began on October 5, 1983.
1991 - The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XXV. New York running back Otis Anderson was named MVP.
1992 - Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest.
2002 - The Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL team to score 10,000 home goals. The feat was achieved in the Canadiens' 2,675th regular season game. The goal was scored by Sergei Berezin who had come to the team only two days before from the Phoenix Coyotes.
2010 - Ten people were killed when a plane bringing people home from Oklahoma State University's basketball game against Colorado crashed in a field outside Denver.
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1944 - The Soviet Union announced the end of the two-year siege in Leningrad.
1945 - The Russians liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews.
1951 - The U.S. Air Force started atomic testing in the Nevada desert.
1967 - The Apollo I fire killed astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
1973 - Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.
1984 - Singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
1998 - First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC's "Today Show", said that allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy".
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad computer tablet during a presentation in San Francisco.
2010 - J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye", died in Cornish, New Hampshire at age 91.
Birthdays
29 - Daisy Lowe (model)
29 - Brooke Butler (actress)
30 - Dorothy Wang (reality star)
31 - Lily Donaldson (model)
34 - Rashidah (reality star)
39 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
46 - Mark Owen (singer)
49 - Patton Oswalt (actor)
76 - John Witherspoon (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
1966 - Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966.
1973 - UCLA's men's basketball team wins its 61st consecutive game, breaking the old record of 60 set by the University of San Francisco.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky set a National Hockey League (NHL) record for consecutive game scoring. He ended the streak at 51 games the next night against the Los Angeles Kings. The streak began on October 5, 1983.
1991 - The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Tampa to win Super Bowl XXV. New York running back Otis Anderson was named MVP.
1992 - Former world boxing champion Mike Tyson went on trial for allegedly raping an 18-year-old contestant in the 1991 Miss Black America Contest.
2002 - The Montreal Canadiens became the first NHL team to score 10,000 home goals. The feat was achieved in the Canadiens' 2,675th regular season game. The goal was scored by Sergei Berezin who had come to the team only two days before from the Phoenix Coyotes.
2010 - Ten people were killed when a plane bringing people home from Oklahoma State University's basketball game against Colorado crashed in a field outside Denver.
