January 27

1302 – Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.

1606 – The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament begins

1776 – The “noble train of artillery” of heavy guns captured from Fort Ticonderoga New York, Henry Knox in command, arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1785 – The first public university in the U.S., the University of Georgia at Athens, is founded.

1825 – Congress approves the formation of the Indian Territory within what is now the state of Oklahoma.

1880 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp

1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

1943 – The first American bombing attack on Germany during World War II  takes places when the 8th Air Force sorties 91 B-17 and B-24 bombers to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven.

1945 –  The Soviet Army’s 322nd Rifle Division liberates the surviving inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau deathcamp in Poland.

1951 – Above ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger, with B-50 bombers dropping 5 bombs over Frenchman Flat in Nye county Nevada.

1967 – During a launch rehearsal test on Pad 34 of the Kennedy Space Center at 06:31 hrs EST, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire inside their Apollo 1 Command Module

1973 – The signing of the Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War.

1980 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, 6 American diplomats secretly make their escape from Iran.

1991 – Over Iraq, USAF pilots, flying F-15s, engage Iraqi jets. Captain Jay Denney shoots down 2 Iraqi MiG-23s, and Captain Ben Powell shoots down an Iraqi MiG-23 and Mirage F-1

1996 – Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

2010 – Apple announces the introduction of the iPad.

2011 – The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana’a, the capitol city

2013 – During a university student party at the Kiss nightclub in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, 242 people are killed when a fire breaks out from a band igniting pyrotechnics on stage.