Jan. 27 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1606, the surviving conspirators in the "Gunpowder Treason" plot to blow up the English Parliament and the king of England on Nov. 5, 1605, were convicted. They were executed four days later. Advertisement In 1785, the first public university in the United States was founded as the University of Georgia. In 1888, The National Geographic Society was founded in Washington. In 1926, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird launched a revolution in