It happened on this day, January 27
Events:
661 – The death of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth of the rightly guided caliphs, a few days after the stabbing he received from the Minister of Foreign Affairs Abd al-Rahman bin Muljam.
1832 – Launch of Emir Abdelkader's resistance against the French occupation of Algeria.
1900 – The Boxer Rebellion breaks out in China and foreign diplomats in Beijing demand discipline for the rebels.
1926 – Englishman John Baird invents television.
1927 – Announcement of the creation of the Kingdom of Hijaz and Najd on the Arabian Peninsula.
1944 – The siege of the city of Leningrad is lifted almost 900 days after it began during World War II.
1967 – The Apollo cockpit burns, killing all three astronauts on board, during training procedures for the Apollo 11 mission.
1973 – The United States, North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong sign an agreement in Paris to bring peace to Vietnam.
1980 – Robert Mugabe returns from exile in Rhodesia.
1991 – Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre is forced to relinquish power after 4 weeks of fighting in the capital Mogadishu.
1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Bara' Moin Al-Sarra overthrows Niger's first democratically elected president, Mahamane Ousmane.
1999 – According to his confession, it was revealed that an Israeli far-right activist was planning to carry out a major bombing operation aimed at blowing up the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
2003 – The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, announces in his report to the Security Council that the agency's team has not yet discovered any suspicious nuclear activity in Iraq.
2006 – An earthquake in the Panda Sea with a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale.
✴️ The Tunisian National Constituent Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Tunisia
2014, and the three Tunisian presidencies concluded it during a session attended by international personalities.
✴️ Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov presents his resignation following the Euromaidan protests which have lasted for more than a month.
2016 – Hilde Heine becomes the first female president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the first female head of state of Oceania.
2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order banning citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States for a specified period, sparking protests and legal controversy.
2018 – An ambulance bomb exploded near a building belonging to the Interior Ministry in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing 102 people and injuring 196 others.
2019 – At least 18 people were killed and 82 others injured in a bomb attack on the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral on the island of Jolo in the Philippines.
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Births:
1546 – Joachim Frederick, Prince Elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
1662 – Richard Bentley, English theologian, classicist and critic.
1687 – Johann Balthazar Neumann, German architect.
1756 – Mozart, Austrian musician.
1808 – David Strauss, German writer and theologian.
1832 – Lewis Carroll, English writer.
1836 – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer.
1848 – Heihachiro Togo, commander of a Japanese naval fleet.
1850 – Edward John Smith, captain of the Titanic.
1859 – Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany.
1860 – Gabrielle Busaner, Austria's first female doctor.
1885 – Jérôme Kern, American musician.
1903 – John Eccles, Australian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1963.
1910 – Edvard Kardel, Yugoslav communist politician.
1918 – Tammam Hassan, Egyptian grammarian and linguist.
1932 – Boris Shakhlin, Olympic gymnast of the Soviet Union.
1933 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian billionaire and businessman.
1936 – Fouad Ahmed, Egyptian actor. Florin Persic, Romanian actor.
**Samuel Ting, American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976.
1939 – Ibrahim Maraachli, Lebanese actor.
1940 – James Cromwell, American actor.
1944 – Mairead Corrigan, Northern Irish peace activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976.
1947 – Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer, songwriter and guitarist.
1954: Stelios Papafloratos, Greek footballer.
1956 – Mimi Rogers, American actress.
1957 – Frank Miller, American film director and comic book writer.
** Yasser Saeed, Egyptian citizen wanted by the FBI.
1959 – Joran Heglund, Swedish politician.
** Keith Olbermann, American broadcaster and media personality.
1960 – Hisham Selim, Egyptian actor.
1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress.
1967 – Bobby Deol, Indian actor.
1968 – Patrick Blondeau, French footballer.
1969 – Bobby Deol, Indian actor.
1971 – Lil Jon, American rapper.
1974 – Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Norwegian Olympic biathlete.
** Andre Pavel, Romanian tennis player.
1976 – Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer.
1979 – Rosamund Pike, English actress.
1980 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player.
1984 Ahmed Al-Ahmar, Egyptian handball player
1985 – Abdullah Bushehri, Iranian actor working in Kuwait.
1987 – Anton Shonin, Russian footballer.
1988 – Curlon, Brazilian footballer.
1989 – Alberto Botia, Spanish footballer.
1990 – Amina Al-Ali, Moroccan actress working in Saudi Arabia.
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Death:
98 – Nerva, the first of the Antonine Roman emperors.
661 – Ali bin Abi Talib, the fourth rightly guided caliph
1596 – Francis Drake, English explorer.
1890 – Muhammad Salim Al-Attar, Syrian jurist, hadith specialist, interpreter and teacher.
1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, Italian musician.
1927 – Abdul Hussein Al-Hayawi, Jaafari jurist and Iraqi poet.
1941 – Salman bin Abdul Mohsen Al-Ali, Jaafari jurist and Saudi poet.
1951 – Carl Gustav Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland.
1983 – Louis de Venise, French actor.
** Mahmoud Ismail, Egyptian writer and actor.
1995 – Saada Al-Jallad, Palestinian general and military commander.
2003 – Mohsen Zayed, Egyptian screenwriter.
2004 – Mubarak Abdullah Al-Dabous, former member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
2005 – Princess Fawzia, daughter of Farouk I, the last king of the Egyptian kingdom.
** Abdo Badawi, Egyptian poet.
2008 – Suharto, President of Indonesia.
2010 – Howard Zinn, American historian.
** Jerome David Salinger, American novelist.
2014 – Abdul Karim Zaidan, Iraqi lawyer.
2020 – Muhammad Zuhdi Nashashibi, Palestinian politician and minister.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
⬅️ Remembering the victims of Nazism in Poland.
⬅️ Saint Sava Day in Serbia.
