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Sunday, January 27, 2013

This will be 27th day of the year and 338 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 16 Shevat 5773
Chinese calendar — the 16th day of the 12th month of 4710 (Ren Chen)
Islamic calendar — (note)

January 27 Birthdays

Wolfgang Mozart
1756–1791, Austrian Composer.

Lewis Carroll
writer (1832)

Samuel Gompers
labor leader (1850)

Jerome Kern
composer (1885)

Hyman G. Rickover
admiral (1900)

Samuel C.C. Ting
physicist (1936)

Mikhail Baryshnikov
dancer (1948)

John G. Roberts, Jr.
jurist (1955)

Frank Miller
artist, writer (1957)

Tamlyn Tomita
actor (1966)

Tricky
singer, music producer (1968)

January 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

January 27 in History

1880

Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light.

1944

The Soviets announced the end of the two-year siege of Leningrad.

1945

The Russians liberated Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had killed over 1.5 million people, including over 1 million Jews.

1951

The U.S. Air Force started atomic testing in the Nevada desert.

1967

The Apollo I fire killed astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral.

1973

Vietnam War peace accords were signed in Paris.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.