27 January
Notable Births
Park Seong-hoon (footballer)
b. 2003
South Korean footballer (born 2003)
Morgan Gibbs-White
b. 2000
English footballer (born 2000)
Aurélien Tchouaméni
b. 2000
French footballer (born 2000)
Braeden Lemasters
b. 1996
American actor and musician (born 1996)
Harrison Reed (footballer)
b. 1995
English footballer (born 1995)
Jack Stephens (footballer)
b. 1994
English footballer (born 1994)
Christian Bickel
b. 1991
German footballer
Julio Teherán
b. 1991
Colombian baseball player (born 1991)
Tim Beckham
b. 1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Alberto Botía
b. 1989
Spanish footballer (born 1989)
Katy Rose
b. 1987
American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1987)
Anton Shunin
b. 1987
Russian footballer (born 1987)
Johan Petro
b. 1986
French basketball player (born 1986)
Ruben Amorim
b. 1985
Portuguese football manager (born 1985)
Carlo Colaiacovo
b. 1983
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1983)
Gavin Floyd
b. 1983
American baseball player (born 1983)
Lee Grant (footballer, born 1983)
b. 1983
English footballer (born 1983)
Eva Asderaki
b. 1982
Greek tennis umpire
Alicia Molik
b. 1981
Australian tennis player (born 1981)
Tony Woodcock (rugby union)
b. 1981
NZ international rugby union player
Notable Deaths
Cloris Leachman
d. 2021
American actress (1926–2021)
Nunuk Nuraini
d. 2021
Food scientist who invented Indomie brand mi goreng flavour instant noodles
Lina Ben Mhenni
d. 2020
Tunisian political activist (1983–2020)
Ingvar Kamprad
d. 2018
Swedish businessman (1926–2018)
Mort Walker
d. 2018
American comic strip cartoonist (1923–2018)
Emmanuelle Riva
d. 2017
French actress (1927–2017)
Arthur H. Rosenfeld
d. 2017
American physicist
Carlos Loyzaga
d. 2016
Filipino basketball player, coach and politician
Rocky Bridges
d. 2015
American baseball player (1927–2015)
David Landau (journalist)
d. 2015
British/Israeli journalist and newspaper editor
Charles H. Townes
d. 2015
American physicist (1915–2015)
Larry Winters
d. 2015
American professional wrestler and trainer
Pete Seeger
d. 2014
American musician and social activist (1919–2014)
Epimaco Velasco
d. 2014
Filipino lawyer and politician (1935-2014)
Paul Zorner
d. 2014
20th-century German fighter pilot
Ivan Bodiul
d. 2013
Soviet Moldovan politician
Stanley Karnow
d. 2013
American historian and journalist
Greg Cook
d. 2012
American football player (1946–2012)
Jeannette Hamby
d. 2012
American politician
Ralph Yarborough
d. 1996
American politician (1903–1996)
On This Day in History
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2023
Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.
Tyre Nichols protests
2023
A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.
2023 Neve Yaakov shooting
2023
An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.
2023 attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran
2017
A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.
Tennessine
2014
Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
Rojava Revolution
2013
Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
Kiss nightclub fire
2011
Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.
Arab Spring
2011
Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.
Ursa Minor
2010
The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2009 Honduran constitutional crisis
2010
Apple announces the iPad.
Apple Inc.
2003
The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
National Recording Registry
2002
An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2002 Lagos armoury explosion
1996
In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1996 Nigerien coup d'état
1996
Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
1983
The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
Seikan Tunnel
1980
Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
Iran hostage crisis
1973
The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
Paris Peace Accords
1967
Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Apollo program
1967
Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
Cold War
1965
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
Trần Văn Hương