Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 27

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  Pope Clement VI
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  Cameo of Pope Clement VI
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  Holocaust victims
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  A 1915 issue of National Geographic, with its characteristic yellow borders
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  Apollo 1
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  Grissom, White, and Chaffee of Apollo 1
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  Akebono Tarō
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  Porfirio Lobo Sosa
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  Brisbane River flooded
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  Bust of Trajan
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  Entrance to Auschwitz I

• AD 98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; the Roman Empire reached its maximum extent under his rule.
• 945 – The brothers Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos, having deposed their father as Byzantine emperor a few weeks earlier, were themselves overthrown by Constantine VII, their co-emperor.
• 1343 – Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus, justifying the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.
• 1785 – The University of Georgia, one of the oldest public universities in the United States, was founded.
• 1820 – A Russian expedition led by the naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev made the first sighting of the coast of Antarctica.
• 1927 – A contaminated diphtheria vaccine was used in an Australian immunisation program, leading to the deaths of twelve children and the suspension of immunisation programs in several countries.
• 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance pictured).
• 1965 – South Vietnamese prime minister Trần Văn Hương was removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
• 1967 – A fire during a launch simulation for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
• 1974 – Brisbane, Australia, was flooded when the Brisbane River broke its banks.
• 1980 – Six American diplomats who had evaded capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped with the help of Canadian government officials to Zürich, Switzerland.
• 2010 – Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office.
• 2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sanaa to demand governmental changes.

• Born/died this day: | Marcian |d|457| Edward of Angoulême |b|1365| Angela Merici |d|1540| Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim |b|1701| Eli Whitney Blake |b|1795| Eunice Hale Cobb |b|1803| John Perkins |d|1812| Sasaki Tōichi|b|1886| Giuseppe Verdi |d|1901| Perfecto Yasay Jr. |b|1947| Yang Chuan-kwang |d|2007|