Commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops on January 27th, 1945.
Daily Calendar for Monday, January 27, 2025
Born
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) –
- Lewis Carroll (author) –
- Samuel Gompers (labor union official) –
- Jerome Kern (composer) –
- Hyman George Rickover (U.S. naval officer) –
- Donna Reed (actress) –
- Sabu Dastagir (actor) –
- Ingrid Thulin (actress) –
- Troy Donahue (actor) –
- Beatrice Tinsley (astronomer) –
- John Roberts (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) –
- Bridget Fonda (actress) –
- Patton Oswalt (actor) –
Died
- John James Audubon (ornithologist) –
- Giuseppe Verdi (composer) –
- Thomas Crapper (inventor) –
- Lilli Palmer (actress) –
- Claude Atkins (actor) –
- Milt Bernhart (big band trombonist) –
- Jack Paar (humorist who turned late-night television into a national institution when he was host of The Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962) –
- George Doc Abraham (wisecracking gardening guru who teamed up with his wife, Katy, to host one of the longest-running shows on American radio) –
- Nick McDonald (policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theater after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963) –
- Tige Andrews (actor) –
- John Updike (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) –
- J.D. Salinger (author) –
Events
- Thomas Edison granted patent for incandescent electric lamp –
- National Geographic Society incorporated –
- The first public demonstration of a true TV was given in London by John Baird –
- Honeymoon Bridge over Niagara Falls collapsed due to ice jam –
- First U.S. air attack on Germany staged by the Eighth Air Force on the docks of Wilhelmshaven (WW II) –
- German guards closed the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as the Soviet army approached, moving as many prisoners as possible to Western camps –
- Last performance of Peter Pan at New York City’s Imperial Theater –
- Georgia legislature repealed the state’s public school segregation laws –
- Three astronauts died in a flash fire at Cape Kennedy, Florida, while training for the first launch of the Apollo 1 spacecraft –
- Representatives from over 60 nations, including the U.S. and USSR, signed the Outer Space Treaty –
- Vietnam War Cease-Fire signed in Paris, ending U.S. combat role in Vietnam –
- Laverne and Shirley made its television debut –
- Michael Jackson’s hair caught fire during filming of a commercial –
- Carl Lewis made a long jump of 28 feet 10.06 inches, in New York City –
- American sumo wrestler Chad Rowan was awarded the Japanese sport’s highest rank, becoming the first foreign Yokozuna –
- National Recording Registry’s first 50 selections announced –
- Western Union sent its last telegram –
Weather
- Great 48-hour snowstorm dropped 24 inches on New York City –
- Florida had 3-day freeze, $10 million in crop loss –
- Chicago, Illinois, was covered with 23 inches of snow –
- 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. –