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Historical Events on January 27

AD 98
Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
945
The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown. Constantine VII becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1142
Song dynasty General Yue Fei is executed.
1186
Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1302
Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.
1343
Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
1593
The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606
Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1695
Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1776
American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1785
The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1825
The 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".
1868
Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
1869
Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1880
Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1927
Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
1939
First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1943
World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
1944
World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945
World War II: The Red Army liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
1951
Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
1961
The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
1967
Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1967
United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
1973
The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1980
Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1983
The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
1996
In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1996
Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2002
An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2003
The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2010
The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2011
Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
2013
Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

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