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Science fiction and fantasy events that took place on January 27, this year and in years gone by.
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Births
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Harrison Ford
Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois.
He was cast as Han Solo in Star Wars in 1977, which skyrocketed him to fame and fortune. Other roles include Indiana Jones in the Indiana Jones quatrain, and Rick Deckard in Blade Runner. |
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Frank Maher
Maher was born on June 18, 1929, in London, Englandand died on July 13, 2007.
A stuntman, he worked on The Prisoner and Blake's 7 as well as other, non-genre programs. |
Entertainment Events
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2008
January 25-27, 2008: Vericon held in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Space and Marine Exploration Events
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Space Events
January 27, 1967: Apollo program: Apollo 1 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
January 27, 1967: More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
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