January 27

January 27 is the 27th day of the year. 338 days remain until the end of the year (339 in leap years).

"Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality."

Lewis Carroll

Born today

• Lewis Carroll, 1832, born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English author, mathematician, logician, photographer, and Anglican deacon

Observances

• Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)

• Liberation of the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-related observances:

  • Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)

  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day

  • Memorial Day (Italy)

  • Other Holocaust Memorial Days observances

• Punch the Clock Day (US)

• World Breast Pumping Day (US)

• Thomas Crapper Day (US)

• National Geographic Day (US)

• National Seed Swap Day (US)