January 27

Sunday 27, 2002:

Several explosions at a military dump in Lagos, Nigeria kill more than 1,000.

Tuesday 27, 1998:

American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Monday 27, 1997:

It is revealed that French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.

Saturday 27, 1996:

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

Monday 27, 1992:

Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping a 1991 Miss Black America contestant.

Sunday 27, 1991:

Super Bowl XXV: The New York Giants defeat the Buffalo Bills, 20-19.

Friday 27, 1984:

Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump.

Friday 27, 1978:

Lt Marilyn R. Koon, 161st Aerial Refueling Squadron, Arizona Air National Guard, becomes first female Air National Guard Pilot.

Saturday 27, 1973:

Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.

Friday 27, 1967:

More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.

Saturday 27, 1951:

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

Saturday 27, 1945:

World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered.

Thursday 27, 1944:

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

Wednesday 27, 1943:

World War II: 50 bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.

Monday 27, 1941:

World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins Following the capture of Tobruk 2 brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursued the Italians westwards and encountered an Italian rear guard at Derna.

Friday 27, 1939:

1939 - The President of the United-States Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.

Wednesday 27, 1926:

John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.

Wednesday 27, 1915:

United States Marines occupy Haiti.

Wednesday 27, 1909:

The Young Left is founded in Norway.

Saturday 27, 1900:

Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in Peking, China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.

Friday 27, 1888:

In Washington, DC the National Geographic Society is founded.

Tuesday 27, 1880:

Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

Thursday 27, 1870:

The first college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at DePauw University.

Thursday 27, 1825:

US 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."

Thursday 27, 1785:

The University of Georgia is founded.

Thursday 27, 1695:

Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. Mustafa ruled until 1703.

Friday 27, 1606:

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

Sunday 27, 1343:

Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.

Monday 27, 1186:

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

Monday 27, 98:

98 Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.

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