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Today is Monday 27 January, the 27th day of 2025. There are 338 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On January 27, 1945, during the Second World War, Soviet troops freed the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
Also on this date:
In 1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric light bulb.
In 1967 astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test on board their Apollo spacecraft in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
In 1973 the Vietnam passion agreements were signed in Paris, which ended direct American involvement in the war in Vietnam.
In 1984 singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns on his scalp when Pyrotechnics set fire to his hair while filming a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial in the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
In 2013 a fire started by Pyrotechniek in the Kiss Nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, killed 242 people and wounded more than 600.
In 2017, President Donald Trump prohibited all refugees to enter the United States for four months and explained the prohibition needed to prevent “radical Islamic terrorists” coming into the country.
Today’s birthdays:
- Actor James Cromwell is 85.
- Rock musician Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) is 81.
- Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov is 77.
- The American Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is 70.
- Political and sports commentator Keith Olbermann is 66.
- Actor Bridget Fonda is 61.
- Actor Alan Cumming is 60.
- Land singer Tracy Lawrence is 57.
- Rock singer Mike Patton is 57.
- Rapper Tricky is 57.
- Actor-Comedian Patton Oswalt is 56.