January 27 is day 27 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Boomtime, Chaos 27, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.3.13 by the Mayan Long Count

We are getting ready to head out on yet another multi-week adventure in the near future. This means that I need to write, post and schedule a whole bunch of OTs for the period of my absence, as well as some to bridge the gap between now and the start date. This means, among other things, that you shouldn't expect too much from them and will need to provide content as well as commentary yourselves (as if you don't already, heh). So, here we go ...

On this day in history:

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1343 – Pope Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. 

1785 – The first public university in the US, the University of Georgia, was founded, y'all.

1820 – A Russian expedition discovered the Antarctic continent

1825 – The U.S. Congress approved the "Indian Territory", paving the way for the "Trail of Tears".

1880 – Thomas Edison received a patent for his incandescent lamp.

1944 – The 900-day Siege of Leningrad ended.

1945 – The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberated the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft

1967 – The USSR, the US, and the UK signed the Outer Space Treaty 

1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially ended the Vietnam War. 

1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, broke through.

2010 –  Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the "official" President of Honduras after the 2009 coup d'etat .

2011 –  The Yemeni Revolution began with over 16,000 protestors demonstrating in Sana'a.

Born this day in:

1621 – Thomas Willis, physician and anatomist

1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, pianist and composer

1775 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, philosopher and academic

1795 – Eli Whitney Blake, engineer, invented the Mortise lock

1803 – Eunice Hale Waite Cobb, writer, public speaker, and activist

1832 – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, novelist, poet, logician, essayist, proto-existentialist, and mathematician.
 

1850 – John Collier, painter and author

1850 – Samuel Gompers, labor leader

1878 – Dorothy Scarborough, author

1885 – Jerome Kern, composer and songwriter

1885 – Seison Maeda, painter

1895 – Harry Ruby, composer and screenwriter; friend of Groucho

1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., yellow journalist, propagandist, and publisher

1912 – Arne Næss, philosopher and environmentalist

1912 – Francis Rogallo, engineer and inventor
 

1918 – Skitch Henderson, pianist, composer, and conductor

1918 – Elmore James, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1924 – Harvey Shapiro, poet

1926 – Fritz Spiegl, flute player and journalist

1930 – Bobby "Blue" Bland, singer and songwriter

1944 – Nick Mason, drummer, songwriter, and producer

1946 – Nedra Talley, singer

1948 – Jean-Philippe Collard, pianist

1951 – Seth Justman, keyboard player and songwriter

1952 – G. E. Smith, guitarist and songwriter

1957 – Janick Gers, guitarist and songwriter

1959 – Keith Olbermann, journalist and author

Died this day in:

1596 – Francis Drake, captain and explorer (b. 1540)

1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, instrument maker, invented the Piano

1851 – John James Audubon, ornithologist and painte

1860 – János Bolyai, mathematician and academic

1901 – Giuseppe Verdi, composer

1910 – Thomas Crapper, plumber

1922 – Nellie Bly, journalist and author

1967 - Roger B. Chaffee, Gus Grissom, and Ed White, astronauts

1972 – Mahalia Jackson, singer

2006 – Gene McFadden, singer. songwriter, and producer

2009 – John Updike, novelist, short story writer, and critic

2010 – J. D. Salinger, author

2010 – Howard Zinn,  historian, author, academic, and activist
 

2014 – Pete Seeger, singer, songwriter, musician, and activist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

International Holocaust Remembrance Day/Auschwitz Liberation Day

The End of The Vietnam War does NOT appear to be an official holiday, no doubt because we were then a garrison state, and needed wars and the threat of wars to keep the economy running, and because it slowed our planned transition to the all out permanent warfare state that we finally became.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's birthday is also not a holiday, curiouser and curiouser

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies