January 27<\/p>\n
1302 \u2013 Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence.<\/p>\n
1606 \u2013 The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament begins<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013 The “noble train of artillery” of heavy guns captured from Fort Ticonderoga New York, Henry Knox in command, arrives at Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
1785 \u2013 The first public university in the U.S., the University of Georgia at Athens, is founded.<\/p>\n
1825 \u2013 Congress approves the formation of the Indian Territory within what is now the state of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
1880 \u2013 Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp<\/p>\n
1939 \u2013 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.<\/p>\n
1943 \u2013 The first American bombing attack on Germany during World War II\u00a0 takes places when the 8th Air Force sorties 91 B-17 and B-24 bombers to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2013\u00a0 The Soviet Army’s 322nd Rifle Division liberates the surviving inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau deathcamp in Poland.<\/p>\n
1951 \u2013 Above ground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger, with B-50 bombers dropping 5 bombs over Frenchman Flat in Nye county Nevada.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2013 During a launch rehearsal test on Pad 34 of the Kennedy Space Center at 06:31 hrs EST, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire inside their Apollo 1 Command Module<\/p>\n
1973 \u2013 The signing of the Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n
1980 \u2013 Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, 6 American diplomats secretly make their escape from Iran.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 Over Iraq, USAF pilots, flying F-15s, engage Iraqi jets. Captain Jay Denney shoots down 2 Iraqi MiG-23s, and Captain Ben Powell shoots down an Iraqi MiG-23 and Mirage F-1<\/p>\n
1996 \u2013 Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n
2010 \u2013 Apple announces the introduction of the iPad.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2013 The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana’a, the capitol city<\/p>\n
2013 \u2013 During a university student party at the Kiss nightclub in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, 242 people are killed when a fire breaks out from a band igniting pyrotechnics on stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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