January 27th

Today is January 27, 2012.  It is the 27th day of the year.  If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 329 days remaining until the end of time.

1302 Dante Alighieri gets expelled from Florence for topping Virgil the Greek

1918 "Tarzan of the Apes" starring Elmo Lincoln, 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater

1984 Michael Jackson catches fire during filming for Pepsi commercial

 

2004 William Hung butchers "She Bangs" on "American Idol" and lands an unlikely record contract

1924 Sabu, Indian actor

1940 James Cromwell, US actor

1965 Alan Cumming, gay Scottish actor

1972 Mark Owen, English boyband singer / Take That

1980 Eddy Ryan, Hungarian porn star

 1987 Michael Horta, US-born Brazilian model

1988 Victor Ortega, Colombian diver

1993 Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff, WWF wrestler, gets pinned

2008 Gordon B. Hinckley, hinky, closeted, cross-dresing president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, finds out how really wrong he was