January 27 Historical Events

The following events took place on January 27. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 40 events. Showing 31 - 40.

• 1984
  Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
• 1993
  American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport’s highest rank of yokozuna.
• 1996
  In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
• 1996
  Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 2002
  An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
• 2003
  The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
• 2006
  Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
• 2010
  The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
• 2011
  Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
• 2013
  Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.