What holiday is celebrated on January 27: events of this day

On January 27, Orthodox believers celebrate the transfer of the relics of St. John Chrysostom. Name days are celebrated by Ivan, Yosyp, Dmytro, and Petro. Today is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as it was on this day in 1945 that the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated.

The world celebrates International Restorer's Day, Thomas Crapper Day, International Community Manager's Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on January 27

The transfer of the relics of St. John Chrysostom is an important event in the history of Christianity, which is celebrated on January 27.

John Chrysostom, an outstanding theologian, lived in the IV-V centuries. His sermons and theological works had a huge impact on the development of Christianity. However, for his uncompromising sermons against corruption and luxury, he was persecuted and expelled from the capital. After the saint's death, his relics remained in the city of Komana. Many years after John Chrysostom's death, the faithful expressed a desire to return the relics to Constantinople. The transfer of the relics united believers from different regions and became a testament to the unity of the church.

Every year on January 27, the world commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. This day was not chosen by chance: it was on January 27, 1945, that Soviet troops liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Holocaust Remembrance Day is a call to fight all forms of fascism, racism, and anti-Semitism. This day is a reminder of the importance of tolerance, mutual respect and joining forces to create a more just world.

International Restoration Day is a professional holiday celebrated annually on January 27. This date was established during the XVIII International Congress for the Protection and Restoration of Cultural Property, held in Granada in 2011. Restorers are people who care about the preservation of cultural heritage. They repair damaged architectural monuments, restore paintings, sculptures and other works of art. Their work allows us to learn about the history, culture, and traditions of our ancestors.

January 27 is the International Community Manager's Day. This holiday is dedicated to professionals who create, develop, and manage communities. These are professionals who bring people together with common interests, values, and goals.

January 27 is also the day of Thomas Crapper, the inventor of the toilet. Although Craper was indeed a successful plumber and entrepreneur in the UK, he was not the inventor of the toilet. Toilets have been around for thousands of years, and their designs have been constantly improving. Crapper is better known for his improvements and popularization of sanitary devices.

The world celebrates January 27:

• Dietitian's Day in Mexico;
• Memorial Day in Italy;
• St. Sava's Day or Savindan in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina;
• Chocolate Cupcake Day.

Notable historical events on January 27

• 1527 - The Battle of Olshanytsia, one of the greatest victories over the Tatars by the Russo-Lithuanian army led by Prince Konstanty Ostrozky, took place.
• 1785 - The University of Georgia, the oldest public university in the United States, was founded.
• 1859 - Ottawa was proclaimed the capital of Canada.
• 1860 - The complete edition of Taras Shevchenko's "Kobzar" is published for the first time.
• 1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent light bulb.
• 1926 - Scottish inventor John Logie Baird made a public demonstration of a device for transmitting and receiving television images - a television set - in London.
• 1945 - Soviet troops captured the Polish city of Auschwitz and liberated the surviving prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1967 - during a rehearsal for a flight to the moon, the American Apollo 1 spacecraft caught fire. All crew members - Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee - were killed.

• 1973 - An agreement is signed in Paris to withdraw US troops from Vietnam.
• 1983 - The construction of the longest underwater railroad tunnel between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido is completed in Japan.
• 2015 - the beginning of active fighting for Debaltseve.
• 2022 - a shooting at the Pivdenmash plant in Dnipro, which killed 5 people.

Who was born on January 27

• 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer.
• 1790 - Petro Hulak-Artemovsky, Ukrainian poet and fabulist.
• 1814 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect-restorer, art critic and architectural historian.
• 1832 - Lewis Carroll, English mathematician, writer ("Alice in Wonderland").
• 1836 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer, the term "masochism" is derived from his name.
• 1839 - Pavlo Chubynsky, Ukrainian ethnographer and folklorist, author of the words to the National Anthem of Ukraine.

• 1841 - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian landscape painter, cultural activist, educator, philanthropist.
• 1859 - Wilhelm II Hohenzollern, German emperor, King of Prussia.
• 1878 - Pavlo Horyansky, Ukrainian public figure, founder and chairman of the Yalta Community of Ukrainians, chairman of the Small Council of Ukrainians of Crimea.
• 1899 - Juan Rebul, Spanish sculptor.
• 1911 - Ivan Honchar, Ukrainian sculptor, graphic artist, painter, ethnographer, collector.
• 1927 - Oleksa Tykhyi, Ukrainian dissident and human rights activist, teacher, linguist, founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
• 1944 - Nick Mason, English musician, composer, music producer, member of Pink Floyd.
• 1979 - Rosamund Pike, English actress.

Died on this day:

• 1732 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian musician. Inventor of the piano.
• 1901 - Serhiy Hrushevsky, Ukrainian professor, educator, organizer of public education, publicist, philanthropist, father of Mykhajlo Hrushevsky.

• 1901 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer.
• 1951 - Carl Mannerheim, Finnish statesman and military leader.
• 1983 - Louis de Funes, French film actor.
• 2006 - Johannes Rau, German politician, Federal President of Germany.
• 2009 - John Updike, American writer.
• 2010 - Jerome David Salinger, American writer.
• 2022 - René de Aubaldia, French novelist and playwright.

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