1142—Chinese Song Dynasty Emperor Song Gaozong and Prime Minister Qin Hui poisoned Yue Fei in Lin'an Dali Temple on trumped-up charges.
On January 27, 1756, Austrian music master Mozart was born.
1822 (Year of Renwu) - Greece, an ancient civilization, became independent.
1859 (Jiwei year) - Wilhelm II of Germany was born in Potsdam.
1841 (Xin Chou Year)—The First Opium War: Emperor Daoguang declared war on Britain.
1880 (Gengchen Year)—Thomas Edison applied for an electric light patent.
1887—Construction of the Eiffel Tower in France begins
1888—The National Geographic Society is established.
1900—Countries requested the Qing government to suppress the Boxer Rebellion.
The British composer Verdi passed away on January 27, 1901
1903 - China and Portugal established the relevant charter of Macao.
1913—American athlete Jimmy Thorpe returns the Olympic medal awarded to him.
1915—The United States occupied Haiti.
1924 - Yugoslavia cedes Fiume to Italy.
1926 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird invented television.
1937—The United States suffered severe floods, leaving 1 million people homeless.
1940 - World War II: German General Manstein was removed from the post of Chief of Staff of Army Group A.
1944—World War II: The siege of Leningrad ends.
1945 - Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz.
1945—The Chinese Expeditionary Force regained northern Myanmar and opened the China-India-Myanmar Highway.
1946 - 800,000 steel workers in the United States join the strike.
1949 - The Taiping steamer sailing from Shanghai to Keelung Port sank after colliding with the freighter Jianyuan in the waters near Zhoushan Islands, killing nearly a thousand people.
1950—China established a unified tax system.
1964—China and France established diplomatic relations.
1967—Three astronauts on the Apollo 1 spacecraft died.
1967—The Treaty on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is signed.
1973—The United States and Vietnam signed the Vietnam Peace Agreement in Paris.
1978—The ruins of Yangcheng, the earliest capital of the Xia Dynasty, were discovered in Dengfeng County, Henan Province.
1982—Waldheim won the "United Nations Peace Prize".
1988—The National Higher Education Work Conference was held in Beijing.
1989—The Fifteenth Plenary Session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee was held.
1990—The Polish Communist Party was disbanded.
1993 - A magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred near Pu'er in Simao Prefecture, Yunnan Province.
1996 - Niger's Army Chief of Staff Manassara launched a military coup to overthrow Mahaman Ousmane, the first democratically elected president.
1997—The Eighth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was held in Beijing.
1998—American students discovered the 37th Mersenne prime number through GIMPS.
2000—CCTV’s “Same Song” program was launched.
2009—China’s third Antarctic scientific research station, Kunlun Station, was completed in the Dome A area, the highest point of the Antarctic interior ice sheet, becoming the highest scientific research station in Antarctica.
2010—Apple CEO Steve Jobs personally released the new revolutionary product iPad.
2010—The elected President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, was officially sworn in at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, the capital of the country.
2010—Sri Lanka’s current President Mahinda Rajapaksa won the presidential election and was re-elected.
2013 - A fire broke out in a nightclub called "Kiss" in the center of Santa María, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. As of the evening of the 29th, the fire had killed at least 245 people and injured more than 200 people. Most of the casualties were teenagers.