27

On this spectacular day, the 27th of January of 2005 (2+5=7), I am pleased to announce that http://preacherman.cjb.net has reached the twenty-seven thousand mark... It is truly a joyous moment. If you can think of anything else that has to do with 27 (and relates to today's date), please leave a comment.

EDIT: Here's some interesting stuff that happened on January 27. I would also like to thank "Anonymous" and S.J. Reynolds for posting some cool info.

Events

98 - Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.

1186 - Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, married Constance of Sicily.

1606 - Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins and later
ends in their execution on January 31.

1695 - Mustafa II became the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. Mustafa ruled to 1703.

1785 - The University of Georgia is founded.

1825 - US Congress approved Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."

1870 - First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.

1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

1888 - In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.

1900 - Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.

1915 - United States Marines occupy Haiti.

1926 - John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.

1939 - The President of the United-States Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.

1941 - World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins Following the capture of Tobruk 2 brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursued the Italians westwards and encountered an Italian rear guard at Derna.

1943 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target).

1944 - World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

1945 - World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered.

1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.

1967 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.

1967 - More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.

1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.

1978 - Lt Marilyn R. Koon, 161st Aerial Refueling Squadron, Arizona Air National Guard, becomes first female Air National Guard Pilot.

1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump.

1991 - Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu.

1991 - Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.

1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.

1996 - Colonel Ibrahim Bare Mainassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.

1997 - It is revealed that French museums had nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.

1998 - American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.

2005 - Greenhouse gas emissions could cause global temperatures to rise by up to 11 degrees Celsius (20 degrees Fahrenheit), according to first results from the world's largest climate modeling experiment.

Births

1585 - Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)

1662 - Richard Bentley, English Classical scholar

1720 - Samuel Foote, dramatist and actor (d. 1777)

1741 - Hester Thrale, diarist (d. 1821)

1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (d. 1791)

1805 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (d. 1881)

1806 - Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer

1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, architect (d. 1879)

1832 - Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (d. 1898)

1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer (d. 1895)

1850 - Samuel Gompers, labor union leader (d. 1924)

1859 - Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, last German Emperor and Prussian king (d. 1941)

1885 - Eduard Künnecke, composer (d. 1953)

1885 - Jerome Kern, composer (d. 1945)

1885 - Harry Ruby, musician, composer, writer (d. 1974)

1900 - Admiral Hyman Rickover, American admiral, proponent of the "nuclear Navy" (d. 1986)

1901 - Willy Fritsch, actor (d. 1973)

1901 - Art Rooney, American football team owner (d. 1988)

1903 - John Carew Eccles, neuropsychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 (d. 1997)

1905 - Howard McNear, American actor (d. 1969)

1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954)

1918 - Skitch Henderson, musician, band leader

1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor (d. 1972)

1920 - Frankie Albert, American football star (d. 2002)

1920 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)

1920 - Tony Martinez, Puerto Rican actor (d. 2002)

1921 - Donna Reed, actress (d. 1986)

1924 - Sabu, actor (d. 1963)

1926 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist (d. 2003)

1929 - Mohamed Al-Fayed, retailer

1930 - Bobby Blue Bland, blues singer

1931 - Mordecai Richler, author (d. 2001)

1936 - Troy Donahue, actor (d. 2001)

1937 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)

1940 - James Cromwell, American actor

1944 - Mairéad Corrigan, Northern Ireland peace activist

1944 - Nick Mason, English drummer Pink Floyd

1946 - Nedra Talley, singer, member of the Ronettes

1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian dancer

1956 - Mimi Rogers, actress

1957 - Janick Gers, musician (Iron Maiden)

1959 - Keith Olbermann, news correspondent, sportscaster

1964 - Bridget Fonda, actress

1965 - Alan Cumming, actor

1968 - Mike Patton, lead singer of several bands in USA

1968 - Tricky, English rapper

1971 - Fann Wong, Chinese actress, singer, model (Shanghai Knights)

1972 - Josh Randall, American actor

1974 - Chaminda Vaas, cricketer, Sri Lanka

1980 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player