January 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1142	Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.	The New Pornographers	Execution Day	Mass Romantic
2	1785	The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.	Belle & Sebastian	The Stars of Track and Field	If You're Feeling Sinister
3	1825	The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".	The Cardigans	Hey! Get Out of My Way	Life
4	1909	The Young Left is founded in Norway.	Peter Bjorn and John	Young Folks	Writer's Block
5	1951	Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.	Deerhoof	A-Town Test Site	The Man, the King, the Girl
6	1967	Apollo program: Apollo 1	Hum	Apollo	Downward is Heavenward
7	1967	More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.	Antioch Arrow	Space Age	In Love with Jetts
8	1983	The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of HonshÅ« and Hokkaidō, breaks through.	Arcade Fire	Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)	Funeral
9	1984	Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.	Fugazi	Burning	13 Songs
10	2006	Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.	T. Rex	Telegram Sam	The Slider

(Historical facts about January 27 are from Wikipedia.)