A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 27th!
| 1756 | Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria. |
| 1825 | Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears.” |
| 1832 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England.
 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson |
| 1862 | President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies. |
| 1885 | Broadway composer Jerome Kern was born in New York City. |
| 1900 | Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels. |
| 1905 | Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties.
 General Alexei N. Kuropatkin |
| 1916 | President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program. |
| 1918 | Communists attempt to seize power in Finland. |
| 1924 | Lenin’s body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin. |
| 1935 | A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates. |
| 1939 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France. |
| 1943 | The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden. |
| 1944 | The Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. |
| 1951 | The era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began. |
| 1959 | NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight. |
| 1965 | Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon. |
| 1967 | Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.  |
| 1967 | More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. |
| 1973 | A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam. |
| 1978 | The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois. |
| 1985 | Pope John Paul says mass to one million in Venezuela. |
| 1998 | First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC’s “Today” show, said that allegations against her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” |
| 2010 | Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco. |
| 2010 | J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” died in Cornish, N.H. at age 91. |
Today in History facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, and HistoryOrb.com.
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