What happened on this day in history: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born, Vladimir Lenin's body is entombed in Red Square, and other important events from January 27th.1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Is Born GraphicaArtis/Getty ImageA depiction of a young Mozart practicing. Etching by Victor Focillon, 1897. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria. A child prodigy with a gift for music, Mozart went on to compose more than 800 pieces, many of them iconic to this day, including The Marriage of Figaro (1786) and the Jupiter Symphony (1788).

The perfectly intact 14-foot-long cephalopod took three divers by surprise.https://www.facebook.com/OceanHunterTeam/posts/1223576644450166 Three divers came across the carcass of a perfectly intact giant squid on the southern coast of Wellington, New Zealand earlier this week. The divers — brothers Daniel, Jack, and Matthew Aplin — had encountered large predators in the waters before but never anything like this, and on the shore no less. “It measured 4.2 meters [about 14 feet] long,” Daniel Aplin reported to the New Zealand Herald.

Stavin' Chain playing guitar and singing the ballad "Batson" in Lafayette, Louisiana, June 1934. Lomax says Stavin' Chain is also a legendary African-American folk character he calls a "sexy Paul Bunyan."Library of Congress/Alan Lomax Blind Willie McTell in a hotel room, Atlanta, November 1940. The legendary bluesman was known for his smooth vocal style and fluid 12-string guitar playing.Library of Congress Unidentified one-man band at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina, between 1938 and 1950.

The Monster Study (1939) RedditA group of orphans who participated in the Monster Study, wherein they were either praised or scolded for their speech. In the 1930s, it was widely accepted that stuttering was a purely physiological condition, possibly rooted in some misdirected brain signals. As a result, many people assumed that if you had a stutter, it was something you had been born with and would have to live with forever.

New Terminal Hotel Bull Lee FilmsActual crime scene tape was used at the same location when police mistook the set for a murder scene. When Police Chief J.R. Blyth entered the hotel room, he was met by the most gruesome murder scene he had ever seen in 35 years on the force. The room was covered, floor-to-ceiling, in blood and a human scalp lay on the bed. The scene in question occurred at the George Washington Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.