Daily Calendar for Monday, January 27, 2025

Commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops on January 27th, 1945.

John James Audubon (ornithologist) – 1851
Giuseppe Verdi (composer) – 1901
Thomas Crapper (inventor) – 1910
Lilli Palmer (actress) – 1986
Claude Atkins (actor) – 1994
Milt Bernhart (big band trombonist) – 2004
Jack Paar (humorist who turned late-night television into a national institution when he was host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962) – 2004
George Doc Abraham (wisecracking gardening guru who teamed up with his wife, Katy, to host one of the longest-running shows on American radio) – 2005
Nick McDonald (policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theater after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963) – 2005
Tige Andrews (actor) – 2007
John Updike (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) – 2009
J.D. Salinger (author) – 2010

Thomas Edison granted patent for incandescent electric lamp– 1880
National Geographic Society incorporated– 1888
The first public demonstration of a true TV was given in London by John Baird– 1926
Honeymoon Bridge over Niagara Falls collapsed due to ice jam– 1938
First U.S. air attack on Germany staged by the Eighth Air Force on the docks of Wilhelmshaven (WW II)– 1943
German guards closed the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as the Soviet army approached, moving as many prisoners as possible to Western camps– 1945
Last performance of Peter Pan at New York City’s Imperial Theater– 1951
Georgia legislature repealed the state’s public school segregation laws– 1961
Three astronauts died in a flash fire at Cape Kennedy, Florida, while training for the first launch of the Apollo 1 spacecraft– 1967
Representatives from over 60 nations, including the U.S. and USSR, signed the Outer Space Treaty– 1967
Vietnam War Cease-Fire signed in Paris, ending U.S. combat role in Vietnam– 1973
Laverne and Shirley made its television debut– 1976
Michael Jackson’s hair caught fire during filming of a commercial– 1984
Carl Lewis made a long jump of 28 feet 10.06 inches, in New York City– 1984
American sumo wrestler Chad Rowan was awarded the Japanese sport’s highest rank, becoming the first foreign Yokozuna– 1993
National Recording Registry’s first 50 selections announced– 2003
Western Union sent its last telegram– 2006

Great 48-hour snowstorm dropped 24 inches on New York City– 1805
Florida had 3-day freeze, $10 million in crop loss– 1940
Chicago, Illinois, was covered with 23 inches of snow– 1967
Frigid arctic air in place over New England and New York caused record-breaking temperatures. Burlington, Vermont, broke its old record daily low by 9 degrees, with a reading of -29F, and Caribou, Maine, set a record low for the third day in a row, with a temperature of -23F.– 1994