Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 27
This is a list of selected January 27 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Porfirio Lobo Sosa -
Restored section of the Walls of Constantinople
Ineligible
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| 1869 – Japan's second largest island, Hokkaidō, was proclaimed by Enomoto Takeaki as the independent Republic of Ezo. | appears on May 18 |
| 1909 – The Young Liberals of Norway, the youth league of the Norwegian political party Venstre was founded, today advocating a more liberal version of the mother party's social liberalist ideology. | {{primary source}} |
| 1939 – The Lockheed P-38 Lightning made its first flight, becoming the only American fighter aircraft in active production throughout the duration of American involvement in World War II. | refimprove section |
| 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton (4-terajoule) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. | refimprove section |
| 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords were signed, temporarily ending the Vietnam War with a ceasefire. North Vietnam would violate the treaty one year later when it attacked South Vietnam on December 13, 1974. | refimprove |
| 2010 – Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new President of Honduras, ending the constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 447 – An earthquake destroyed large sections of the Walls of Constantinople.
- 1343 – Pope Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.
- 1888 – The National Geographic Society, publisher of National Geographic magazine, was incorporated in Washington, D.C., as "a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge".
- 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive successfully lifted the Siege of Leningrad, 872 days after it began.
- 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
- 1967 – The Apollo 1 spacecraft was destroyed by fire at the Kennedy Space Center, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
- 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of international space law, opened for signature in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.
- 1980 – With the assistance of Canadian government officials, six American diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to Zurich, Switzerland.
- 1993 – American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō became the first foreigner to reach the rank of yokozuna (grand champion).
- 2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, killed at least 1,100 people and displaced over 20,000 others.
- 2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry were announced by the United States Library of Congress.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as over 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sana'a to demand governmental changes.
January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day; Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom and various commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz (1945)
- 1142 – Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
- 1785 – The University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, one of the oldest public universities in the United States, was founded.
- 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto.
- 1974 – The Brisbane River, which runs through the heart of Brisbane, broke its banks and flooded the surrounding areas (pictured).
- 1996 – Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.