Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 27
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| International Holocaust Remembrance Day; Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom and | Int'l: refimprove section; UK: refimprove |
| 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto. | refimprove |
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| 1888 – The National Geographic Society, publisher of National Geographic magazine, was incorporated in Washington, D.C., as "a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge". | refimprove |
| 1909 – The Young Liberals of Norway, the youth league of the Norwegian political party Venstre was founded, today advocating a more liberal version of the mother party's social liberalist ideology. | primary sources |
| 1919 – Yugoslavian troops shot at protesters advocating for the incorporation of Maribor into the Republic of German-Austria. | sourcing |
| 1939 – The Lockheed P-38 Lightning made its first flight, becoming the only American fighter aircraft in active production throughout the duration of American involvement in World War II. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – World War II: The Soviet Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive successfully lifted the Siege of Leningrad, 872 days after it began. | refimprove section; Siege appears on September 28 |
| 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton (4-terajoule) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. | refimprove section |
| 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords were signed, temporarily ending the Vietnam War with a ceasefire, although fighting resumed nearly two years later. | unreferenced section |
| 1993 – American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō became the first foreigner to reach the rank of yokozuna (grand champion). | refimprove section |
| 2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, killed at least 1,100 people and displaced more than 20,000 others. | refimprove section |
| George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington |b|1663| | Birthday not cited |
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- AD 98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; the Roman Empire reached its maximum extent under his rule.
- 1343 – Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus, justifying the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.
- 1785 – The University of Georgia, one of the oldest public universities in the United States, was founded.
- 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Macau Incident, French and Spanish warships encountered a British Royal Navy escort squadron in the Wanshan Archipelago; subsequent events, including which side retreated, were disputed by the commanders present.
- 1820 – A Russian expedition led by the naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev made the first sighting of the coast of Antarctica.
- 1927 – A contaminated diphtheria vaccine was used in an Australian immunisation program, leading to the deaths of twelve children and the suspension of immunisation programs in several countries.
- 1965 – South Vietnamese prime minister Trần Văn Hương was removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
- 1967 – A fire during a launch simulation for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
- 1974 – Brisbane, Australia, was flooded when the Brisbane River broke its banks.
- 1980 – Six American diplomats who had evaded capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped with the help of Canadian government officials to Zürich, Switzerland.
- 1996 – Mahamane Ousmane , the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.
- 2003 – The first selections for the United States National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress.
- 2011 – Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F).
- 2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sanaa to demand governmental changes.
- Born/died this day: | Marcian' |d|457| Edward of Angoulême |b|1365| Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim |b|1701| Titumir |b|1782| Eli Whitney Blake |b|1795| Eunice Hale Cobb |b|1803| Sasaki Tōichi|b|1886| Giuseppe Verdi |d|1901| Mohamed Al-Fayed |b|1929| Alan Cumming |b|1965| Victoria Ocampo |d|1979| Yang Chuan-kwang |d|2007| Willis Gibson |b|2010 | Gordon B. Hinckley |d|2008 | Howard Zinn |d|2010 | J. D. Salinger |d|2010 | Zelda Rubinstein |d|2010 | Paul Zorner |d|2014
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- 945 – The brothers Stephen and Constantine Lekapenos, having deposed their father as Byzantine emperor a few weeks earlier, were themselves overthrown by Constantine VII, their co-emperor.
- 1825 – On the advice of John C. Calhoun, President James Monroe asked Congress to organize Indian Territory (map pictured) west of the Mississippi River, laying the groundwork for Indian removal in the United States.
- 1869 – Former members of the overthrown Tokugawa shogunate proclaimed Japan's second-largest island, Hokkaido, to be the independent Republic of Ezo.
- 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 2010 – Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office.
- Angela Merici (d. 1540)
- John Perkins (d. 1812)
- Perfecto Yasay Jr. (b. 1947)
- Zelda Rubinstein (d. 2010)
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