Summary of the Day ✨ 27 January (27/01)
Protests erupted across the United States following the release of videos showing Memphis police officers assaulting Tyre Nichols, who later died from his injuries, while a deadly shooting at a Jerusalem synagogue killed seven people. In international affairs, an attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran left one dead, scientists formally named the chemical element tennessine, and the Kobanî Canton declared autonomy from Syria amid ongoing conflict.
Historical Events 📜
- 2023: Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.
- 2023: A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.
- 2023: An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.
- 2017: A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.
- 2014: Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
- 2013: Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
- 2011: Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.
- 2011: Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.
- 2010: The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
- 2010: Apple announces the iPad.
- 2003: The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
- 2002: An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
- 1996: In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
- 1996: Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
- 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.
Famous Births 👶
- 2003: Park Seong-hoon, South Korean footballer
- 2000: Morgan Gibbs-White, English footballer
- 2000: Aurélien Tchouaméni, French footballer
- 1998: Devin Druid, American actor
- 1996: Braeden Lemasters, American actor, musician, and singer
- 1995: Harrison Reed, English footballer
- 1994: Desiree Becker, German politician
- 1994: Jack Stephens, English footballer
- 1992: Stefano Pettinari, Italian footballer
- 1991: Christian Bickel, German footballer
- 1991: Julio Teherán, Colombian baseball player
- 1990: Tim Beckham, American baseball player
- 1989: Alberto Botía, Spanish footballer
- 1988: Kerlon, Brazilian footballer
- 1987: Katy Rose, American singer-songwriter and producer
Notable Deaths 🕊️
- 2022: Andy Devine, British TV actor (born 1942)
- 2021: Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian (born 1926)
- 2021: Nunuk Nuraini, Indonesian food scientist (born 1961)
- 2020: Lina Ben Mhenni, Tunisian Internet activist and blogger (born 1983)
- 2019: Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau, German socialite (born 1958)
- 2018: Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA (born 1926)
- 2018: Mort Walker, American cartoonist (born 1923)
- 2017: Emmanuelle Riva, French actress (born 1927)
- 2017: Arthur H. Rosenfeld, American physicist (born 1926)
- 2016: Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (born 1930)
- 2015: Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (born 1927)
- 2015: David Landau, English-Israeli journalist (born 1947)
- 2015: Joseph Rotman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1935)
- 2015: Charles Hard Townes, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
- 2015: Larry Winters, American wrestler and trainer (born 1956)
Holidays & Observances 🎉
- Christian feast day:
Angela Merici - Christian feast day:
Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini - Christian feast day:
Devota (Monaco) - Christian feast day:
Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló - Christian feast day:
John Chrysostom (translation of relics) (Anglican, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox) - Christian feast day:
Sava (Serbia) - Christian feast day:
January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)
- Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances:
Holocaust Memorial Day (UK) - Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances:
International Holocaust Remembrance Day - Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances:
Memorial Day (Italy) - Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances:
Other Holocaust Memorial Days observances