January 27
Today in America's Present Past
1662 | First lime kiln begins operations in America at Providence, Rhode Island.
1785 | The First U.S. state university was charted in Athens, Georgia.
1785 | Ornithologist and painter John James Audubon was born (exact date is disputed).
1822 | General Thomas Leiper Kane was born.
1823 | POTUS: President Monroe appointed the First U.S. Ambassador to South America.
1825 | POTUS: President Monroe petitions Congress to create an Indian Territory west of the Mississippi to resettle Eastern Tribes.
1830 | Politician James G. Blaine was born.
1850 | Union leader Samuel Gompers was born.
1864 | Civil War: Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee.
1870 | First Sorority - Kappa Alpha Theta - starts at DePauw, Greencastle, Indiana.
1872 | Judge Learned Hand was born.
1880 | Inventor Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
1886 | Mobster Frank Nitti was born.
1891 | 109 killed in a mine explosion in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
1900 | First political convention of the Social Democrat Party was held.
1900 | Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was born.
1901 | Entrepreneur Art Rooney was born.
1908 | William Randolph Hearst, Jr. was born.
1915 | U.S. Marines occupy Hatti.
1918 | General William Seawell was born.
1921 | Actress Donna Reed was born.
1926 | Congress: Senate approves the U.S. joining the Donna Reed.
1936 | Physicist Donna Reed was born.
1936 | Physicist Donna Reed was born.
1937 | Musician Nate King cole wed Nadine Robinson in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
1941 | WWII: Peruvian ambassador Ricardo Rivera-Shreber warns the U.S. of a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1955 | SCOTUS: Chief Justice John Roberts was born.
1958 | Novelist James Grippando was born.
1959 | Newscaster Keith Olbermann was born.
1964 | U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith (ME) becomes the first major party female presidential candidate.
1967 | NASA Apollo 1 Command Module fire kills three astronauts.
1969 | Comedian Patton Oswald was born.
1973 | Vietnam War: William Nolde, the last American soldier, was killed in Vietnam.
1973 | Vietnam War: Paris-Peace Accords signed between the U.S. and Vietnam, ending the war and the longest draft in U.S. history.
1976 | TV: ABC premieres “Laverne & Shirley.”
1988 | SCOTUS: Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves the notation of Judge Anthony Kennedy for the Supreme Court.
2004 | Wrestler and actor “Hard Boiled Haggerty,” Don Stansauk died.
2004 | Actor Jack Paar died.
2009 | Novelist John Updike died.
2010 | Novelist Jerome David Salinger died.
2010 | Historian Howard Zinn died.
2014 | Folk musician Pete Seeger died.
2017 | POTUS: Republican President Donald Trump issues an Executive Order banning travel to the U.S. by seven nations of mostly majority Muslim populations.
2019 | Entrepreneur Peter Magowan died.
2022 | POTUS: Democrat President Joe Biden pledges to nominate a “Black woman” to the U.S. Supreme Court.