January 27 is:
Chocolate Cake Day
Punch the Clock Day
Birthday of Wolgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756), Austrian concert pianist and world-renowned composer.
The University of Georgia was founded in 1785, the first public university in the United States.
In 1825 the U.S. Congress approved Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears”.
Birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832), English mathematician and author who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, author of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp in 1880.
Birthday of Jerome Kern (January 27, 1885), American composer who wrote the score for the musical version of Edna Ferber’s novel “Show Boat“. The lyrics were written by Oscar Hammerstein II. Songs included “Ole Man River” and “Make Believe“. Show Boat was made into a movie three times: 1929 starring Laura LaPlante (a semi “talkie” movie”); 1936 starring Irene Dunne; and 1951 starring Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel.
Birthday of John Roberts (January 27, 1955), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, nominated by President George W Bush.
1956 – Elvis Presley released “Heartbreak Hotel.” It was written by Tommy Durden and Mae Boren Axton. A newspaper article about the suicide of a lonely man who jumped from a hotel window inspired the lyrics. Axton presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a country music convention in Nashville. Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10, 1956, in a session with his band, The Blue Moon Boys, including guitarist Chet Atkins, and pianist Floyd Cramer. It was released January 27th.
1967 – Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially ended the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde was killed in action, becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
2010 – Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad.