About January 27

January 27, 2025 is the 27th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 2 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On January 27

  • 1142 –
    Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
  • 1593 –
    The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
  • 1695 –
    Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
  • 1785 –
    The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
  • 1825 –
    The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
  • 1868 –
    Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
  • 1870 –
    The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
  • 1888 –
    The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • 1909 –
    The Young Left is founded in Norway.
  • 1927 –
    Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
  • 1939 –
    First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
  • 1951 –
    Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
  • 1952 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dragon in Chinese astrology.
  • 1961 –
    Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
  • 1967 –
    The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
  • 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.
  • 1993 –
    American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
  • 1996 –
    In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
  • 2010 –
    The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

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