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January 27
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Austria.
1832 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1944 - The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II.
1945 - The Russians liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had 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 Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
1973 - The Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
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."
2003 - The Bush administration dismissed Iraq’s response to U.N. disarmament demands as inadequate. Meanwhile, chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix charged that Iraq had never genuinely accepted U.N. resolutions demanding its disarmament and warned that “cooperation on substance” was necessary for a peaceful solution.
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet during a presentation in San Francisco.
2010 - Acknowledging that “change has not come fast enough,” President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to get jobless millions back to work while fighting for ambitious overhauls of health care, energy and education.
2010 - J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," died in Cornish, N.H. at age 91.
2015 - European leaders gathered in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet liberation the Auschwitz death camp; amid tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed away, sending his chief of staff instead.
Birthdays
22 - Lucki Starr (singer)
24 - Braeden Lemasters (actor)
31 - Daisy Lowe (model)
34 - Matt Sanchez (musician)
41 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
42 - Kevin Denney (country singer)
48 - Josh Randall (actor)
49 - Guillermo Rodriguez (TV personality)
51 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
52 - Tracy Lawrence (country singer)
55 - Alan Cumming (actor)
56 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
57 - Tamlyn Tomita (actress)
61 - Keith Olbermann (TV host)
62 - Susanna Thompson (actress)
64 - Mimi Rogers (actress)
65 - Cheryl White (country singer)
65 - John Roberts (chief justice of U.S. Supreme Court)
80 - James Cromwell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick and John Clarkson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1966 - A Wisconsin state circuit court judge rules that the Braves baseball franchise must stay in Milwaukee or the National League must provide Wisconsin with an expansion team for 1966.
1973 - The UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won their 61st consecutive game to break the NCAA record held 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. Giants running back Ottis Anderson is 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.
2001 - Jennifer Capriati upset three-time winner Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open title and her first Grand Slam tournament championship.
1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Austria.
1832 - Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England.
1880 - Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.
1944 - The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad during World War II.
1945 - The Russians liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had 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 Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1967 - More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.
1973 - The Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
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."
2003 - The Bush administration dismissed Iraq’s response to U.N. disarmament demands as inadequate. Meanwhile, chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix charged that Iraq had never genuinely accepted U.N. resolutions demanding its disarmament and warned that “cooperation on substance” was necessary for a peaceful solution.
2010 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet during a presentation in San Francisco.
2010 - Acknowledging that “change has not come fast enough,” President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to get jobless millions back to work while fighting for ambitious overhauls of health care, energy and education.
2010 - J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of "The Catcher in the Rye," died in Cornish, N.H. at age 91.
2015 - European leaders gathered in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet liberation the Auschwitz death camp; amid tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed away, sending his chief of staff instead.
Birthdays
22 - Lucki Starr (singer)
24 - Braeden Lemasters (actor)
31 - Daisy Lowe (model)
34 - Matt Sanchez (musician)
41 - Rosamund Pike (actress)
42 - Kevin Denney (country singer)
48 - Josh Randall (actor)
49 - Guillermo Rodriguez (TV personality)
51 - Patton Oswalt (actor/comedian)
52 - Tracy Lawrence (country singer)
55 - Alan Cumming (actor)
56 - Bridget Fonda (actress)
57 - Tamlyn Tomita (actress)
61 - Keith Olbermann (TV host)
62 - Susanna Thompson (actress)
64 - Mimi Rogers (actress)
65 - Cheryl White (country singer)
65 - John Roberts (chief justice of U.S. Supreme Court)
80 - James Cromwell (actor)
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Today in Sports History - January 27
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick and John Clarkson are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1966 - A Wisconsin state circuit court judge rules that the Braves baseball franchise must stay in Milwaukee or the National League must provide Wisconsin with an expansion team for 1966.
1973 - The UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won their 61st consecutive game to break the NCAA record held 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. Giants running back Ottis Anderson is 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.
2001 - Jennifer Capriati upset three-time winner Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-3 to win the Australian Open title and her first Grand Slam tournament championship.
