Event:
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, claims that his decision to leak classified NSA documents about mining emails and telephone call logs, has resulted in several significant threats to his life
More Notable Events on January 27:
1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
1888 National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C.
1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
