Four Important Events that happened on January 27
1785 - The First public university in the US is founded. (University Of Georgia)
1880 - Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1888 - In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.
1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
Four Famous Births
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
1850 - Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d. 1924)
1969 - Matthew Asher Pusateri was born in Harbor City, California
Actually, one of my alma mater's, University of North Carolina, was the first public university (Georgia is a pretender!). This, of course, is a matter of debate among historians, but I'll side with the 'Heels...
Posted by: matt at February 15, 2007 11:10 AM