TODAY HISTORY LESSON: JANUARY 27
1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1606 The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began. They were executed on January 31.
1820 Russian Antarctic Expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discover the continent of Antarctica
1825 Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears.”
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies.
1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union
1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. for “the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge”
1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant PA
1900 Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels.
1916 President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program.
1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court
1927 United Independent Broadcasters Inc. started a radio network with contracts with 16 stations. The company later became Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).
1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.
1944 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed
1945 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camps in Poland
1948 Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first magnetic tape recorder. The ‘Wireway’ machine with a built-in oscillator sold for $149.50.
1959 NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight.
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
1967 U.S., U.K. and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty The treaty bans the deployment of nuclear weapons in outer space and limits the use of the Moon to peaceful purposes.
1967 At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft.
1973 A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam.
1978 The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois.
1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court
1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1996 Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was overthrown by a military coup. Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara declared himself head of state.
1998 U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC’s “Today” show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”
2010 Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
