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

  • 661 –
    The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.
  • 1142 –
    Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
  • 1343 –
    Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.
  • 1593 –
    The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
  • 1606 –
    Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
  • 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”.
  • 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.
  • 1944 –
    World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
  • 1961 –
    Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.
  • 1973 –
    The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
  • 1983 –
    The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world’s longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
  • 1984 –
    Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
  • 1990 –
    New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Horse in Chinese astrology.
  • 1996 –
    Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
  • 1996 –
    In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
  • 2002 –
    An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
  • 2003 –
    The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
  • 2010 –
    The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

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