27 January History


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  • 1695    -    Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II.
  • 1825    -    Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
  • 1862    -    President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies.
  • 1900    -    Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels.
  • 1905    -    Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties.
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  • 1916    -    President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program.
  • 1918    -    Communists attempt to seize power in Finland.
  • 1924    -    Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin.
  • 1935    -    A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates.
  • 1939    -    President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.
  • 1941    -    The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington.
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  • 1943    -    The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden.
  • 1959    -    NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight.
  • 1965    -    Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon.
  • 1967    -    Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft.
  • 1973    -    A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam.
  • 1978    -    The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois.
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  • 1985    -    Pope John Paul says mass to one million in Venezuela.
  • 1756    -    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musical genius and composer whose works included The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute.
  • 1850    -    Samuel Gompers, first President of American Federation of Labor.
  • 1859    -    Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor who ruled Germany during World War I but was forced to abdicate in 1918.
  • 1900    -    Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine."