WHAT HAPPENED ON 27. JANUARY
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World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted. (27. January 1944)

World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland. (27. January 1945)

Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat. (27. January 1951)

Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost. (27. January 1961)

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. (27. January 1967)

The 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. (27. January 1967)

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. (27. January 1973)

The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century. (27. January 1974)

Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper. (27. January 1980)

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. (27. January 1983)

Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium. (27. January 1984)

American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. (27. January 1993)

In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane. (27. January 1996)

Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (27. January 1996)

An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others. (27. January 2002)

The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress. (27. January 2003)

Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. (27. January 2006)

The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras. (27. January 2010)

Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a. (27. January 2011)

241 people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil. (27. January 2013)