January 27

January 27, 1975

Mother Mary Martin, founder of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, dies in Drogheda

January 27, 1944

Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, founder of NI Peace Movement, born

January 27, 1926

First public demonstration of TV by John Logie Baird

January 27, 1885s

Charles Stewart Parnell turns the first sod for the West Clare Railway

January 27, 1783

Glasgow Herald newspaper first published

January 27, 1550

Sir Humphrey Arundell, leader of the Cornish Prayer Book Rebellion, executed