Today in History : January 27
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.
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.
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.
1985 : Pope John Paul II says mass to one million in Venezuela.
Born on January 27
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.”
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.
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.
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.
1985 : Pope John Paul II says mass to one million in Venezuela.
Born on January 27
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.”
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