This Day in History – January 27
1671 – Pirate Henry Morgan lands at Panama City.
1785 – 1st US state university chartered, Athens, Georgia.
1880 – Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp.
1891 – Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.
1915 – US Marines occupy Haiti.
1918 – “Tarzan of the Apes”, 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater.
1926 – US Senate agrees to join World Court.
1943 – 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
1948 – 1st tape recorder sold.
1951 – “Peter Pan” closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 320 performances.
1961 – “Sing Along with Mitch” {Miller} premieres on NBC TV.
1965 – 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite.
1969 – Chuck Noll is named head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers (the youngest coach in NFL history at the time)
1970 – 1970 NFL Draft: Terry Bradshaw from Louisiana Tech is first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers.
1970 – Movie rating system modifies “M” rating to “PG”
1973 – 1973 – US & North Vietnam’s William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign cease fire, ending longest US war and military draft.
1976 – “Laverne & Shirley” spinoff from “Happy Days” premieres on ABC TV.
1984 – Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.
1996 – 15 day old conjoined twins separated: Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies.
1997 – “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” opens at Gershwin NYC.
Extremes for Bladen County, NC, on January 27