January 27, 2012

International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (United Nations)

Germany: Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism

United Kingdom: Holocaust Memorial Day

Fun at Work Day

National Preschool Fitness Day

Thomas Crapper Day (death anniversary)

Oregon Truffle Festival, Valley River Inn, Eugene, OR (Jan 27-29). See www.oregontrufflefestival.com

In 1945, Soviet forces liberated about 6,000 prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland.

45 years ago, in 1967, a fire on the Apollo I spacecraft took the lives of Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

Birth anniversaries of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) and Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll, 1832-98).

Birth anniversary of author Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1836-95)—the psychiatric field named the practice of masochism after him.

Happy Birthday! Mikhail Baryshnikov, Cris Collinsworth, Mairead Corrigan, James Cromwell, Alan Cumming, Bridget Fonda, Julie Foudy, John G. Roberts Jr