| 1695 |
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Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. |
| 1825 |
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Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." |
| 1862 |
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President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies. |
| 1900 |
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Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels. |
| 1905 |
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Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties. |
| 1916 |
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President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program. |
| 1918 |
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Communists attempt to seize power in Finland. |
| 1924 |
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Lenin’s body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin. |
| 1935 |
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A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates. |
| 1939 |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France. |
| 1941 |
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The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington. |
| 1943 |
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The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden. |
| 1959 |
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NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight. |
| 1965 |
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Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon. |
| 1967 |
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Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft. |
| 1973 |
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A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam. |
| 1978 |
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The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois. |
| 1985 |
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Pope John Paul says mass to one million in Venezuela. |
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| Born on January 27 |
| 1756 |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musical genius and composer whose works included The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute. |
| 1850 |
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Samuel Gompers, first President of American Federation of Labor. |
| 1859 |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor who ruled Germany during World War I but was forced to abdicate in 1918. |
| 1900 |
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Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine." |
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