JANUARY 27 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 27 TH JANUARY IN HISTORY 

• 1788 - The first British penal settlement was founded at Botany Bay. 
• 1807 - London's Pall Mall became the first street lit by gaslight. 
• 1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT. 
• 1909 - The United States ended direct control over Cuba.
• 1935 - Iceland became the first country to introduce legalized abortion. 
• 1958 - Construction began on first private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor. 
• 1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 1999 - Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo AB for $6.45 billion
• 2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
• 2013 – Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.