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27 January, 1996

Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.

27 January, 1996

Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

27 January, 1983

Pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the worlds longest subaqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido breaks through.

27 January, 1973

Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde falls, becoming the conflicts last recorded American combat casualty.

27 January, 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.

27 January, 1967

More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.

27 January, 1951

Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on the Frenchman Flats.

27 January, 1945

World War II: The Red Army arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.

27 January, 1944

World War II: The two-year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

27 January, 1939

First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

27 January, 1918

The first hostilities occurred in the Finnish Civil War.

27 January, 1909

The Young Left is founded in Norway.

27 January, 1888

In Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Society is founded.

27 January, 1870

The first womens fraternity,Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.

27 January, 1825

U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."

27 January, 1785

The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.

27 January, 1695

Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in 1703.

27 January, 1606

Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on January 31.

27 January, 1593

Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.

27 January, 1343

Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.

27 January, 1186

Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds Constance of Sicily.

27 January, 1142

Wrongful execution of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.

27 January, 98

Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.

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