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Events on January 27

• 1521 Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms, which will last until 26 May and at which, alongside issues of imperial administration such as the imperial regency and the imperial matriculation lists, the Luther Cause will also be dealt with as the final item.
• 1880 Thomas Alva Edison receives U.S. Patent No. 223898 for his invention of an improved incandescent lamp.
• 1939 Adolf Hitler puts the Z Plan into force by law, a fleet rearmament plan developed by the German Navy under its commander-in-chief, Erich Raeder, which goes beyond the Anglo-German Naval Agreement.
• 1943 With an air raid on Wilhelmshaven carried out by 55 bombers, the American Air Force's daylight bombings begin as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive. From then on, Germany is attacked by aircraft almost daily until the end of the war.
• 1944 With the expulsion of the last German soldiers from the southern part of Leningrad, the city's 900-day siege during the Second World War ends. The encirclement by the German Wehrmacht cost approximately one million lives.
• 1967 The United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union conclude the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, known as the Outer Space Treaty, to regulate their activities in outer space.
• 1967 During routine plug-out tests in NASA's Apollo program, a fire breaks out. The three Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White and Roger B. Chaffee are burned to death in their capsule.
• 1973 The United States and North Vietnam sign the Paris Peace Accords, under which an armistice in the Vietnam War is to take effect the following day and the United States are to withdraw gradually from Vietnam.
• 1978 In West Berlin, the meeting in Tunix begins with 15–20,000 participants from the left-wing political spectrum, at which numerous projects of the alternative movement are initiated, including the daily newspaper taz. The congress marks a late high point of the Sponti movement.
• 1991 With his victory at the Australian Open, Boris Becker becomes the first German to be ranked No. 1 in the men's tennis world rankings.
• 2005 The Berlin football referee Robert Hoyzer confesses to having manipulated matches through his decisions in order to facilitate match-fixing. The investigations into the 2005 football betting scandal begin.
• 2011 The American science fiction film Tron: Legacy opens in German cinemas.

Born on January 27

• 1850 Edward John Smith, British naval officer
• 1862 Peter Joseph Früh, German brewer and brewery owner
• 1901 Willy Fritsch, German actor
• 1920 Helmut Zacharias, German violinist
• 1940 James Cromwell, American actor
• 1950 Ulrich Deppendorf, German journalist and television presenter
• 1970 Fabian Harloff, German actor
• 1980 Eva Padberg, German fashion model and mannequin
• 1980 Marat Michailowitsch Safin, Russian tennis player
• 1990 Daniel Donskoy, German actor, director, theater producer and musician

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „27. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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