SomeFacts | January 27

On this day - January 27

98 — Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.

417 — Pope Innocent I declares Pelagius and his follower Caelestius ...

532 — Nika riots in Constantinople fail.

945 — The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and ...

1186 — Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick ...

1302 — Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from ...

1343 — Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus, laying out ...

1606 — Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators ...

1695 — Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in ...

1726 — J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Alles nur nach ...

1759 — Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble ...

1785 — The University of Georgia is founded, the first ...

1820 — A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen ...

1825 — The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is ...

1868 — Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces ...

1869 — Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in ...

1874 — Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in ...

1880 — Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.

1916 — World War I: The British government passes the Military ...

1918 — Beginning of the Finnish Civil War.

1924 — Six days after his death, Vladimir Lenin's body is ...

1927 — Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.

1928 — Bundaberg tragedy: a diphtheria vaccine is contaminated with ...

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

1943 — World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s ...

1944 — World War II: The 872-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

1945 — World War II: The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the ...

1951 — Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation ...

1961 — The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, ...

1965 — South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by ...

1967 — Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United ...

1967 — Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger ...

1973 — The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. ...

1980 — Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, ...

1983 — The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest ...

1996 — Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance ...

1996 — In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes ...

2002 — An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, ...

2003 — The first selections for the National Recording Registry are ...

2010 — Apple announces the iPad.

2010 — The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio ...

2011 — Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest ...

2011 — Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 ...

2013 — Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in ...

2014 — Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from ...

2017 — A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes ...

2023 — An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, ...

2023 — A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, ...

2023 — Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the ...