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Learn about the most intriguing events and historical facts that occurred on January 27 throughout history. The twenty-seventh day of the Gregorian calendar is January 27th. On this day, Germany commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day for the first time, the Finnish Civil War began, and the University of Georgia was established as the country’s first public university.
Aquarius is the zodiac sign for January 27. Lewis Carroll, Rosamund Pike, and Mikhail Baryshnikov all had famous birthdays. National Chocolate Cake Day and International Holocaust Remembrance Day are both observed on January 27th. (January 27, 1880) (January 27, 1967) (January 27, 1973) (January 27, 2010) (January 27, 2018) (Died on January 27, 2021)
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Thomas Edison, an American inventor, patented the incandescent lamp. 
U.S. astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee died in a fire aboard Apollo 1 during a launch simulation.
On this day in 1973, the Paris Accord ending the Vietnam War, America's longest war at the time, was signed, allowing for a prisoner exchange and the unilateral withdrawal of US forces from South Vietnam. 
J.D. Salinger, best known for The Catcher in the Rye (1951), a novel in which the sensitive, rebellious teenager Holden Caulfield is depicted through humour and colourful language, died at the age of 91. 
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the Swedish home furnishings company IKEA, which was the world's largest seller of furniture in the early twenty-first century, died at the age of 91.
Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian (b. 1926).
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