Ingenpedia:OnThisDay/January 27, 2021

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 * 1785 – The University of Georgia, one of the oldest public universities in the United States, was founded.
 * 1820 – A Russian expedition led by naval officers Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev became the first explorers to sight the coast of Antarctica.
 * 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp, in present-day Oświęcim, Poland.
 * 1967 – The Apollo 1 fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee at Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34, and destroyed the spacecraft.
 * 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty, a treaty that forms the basis of international space law, opened for signature in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union.
 * 1974 – The Brisbane River, which runs through the heart of Brisbane, broke its banks and flooded the surrounding areas.
 * 1980 – Assisted by Canadian government officials, six American diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to Zürich, Switzerland.
 * 2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry were announced by the United States Library of Congress.
 * 2010 – Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending the constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office.
 * Born/died this day: | Angela Merici |d|1540| George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington |b|1663| Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim |b|1701| Eunice Hale Waite Cobb |b|1803| John Perkins |d|1812| Giuseppe Verdi |d|1901| Mohamed Al-Fayed |b|1929| Yang Chuan-kwang |d|2007| Paul Zorner |d|2014

January 27


 * 98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; the Roman Empire reached its maximum extent under his rule.
 * 1343 – Clement VI issued the papal bull Unigenitus, justifying the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.
 * 1965 – South Vietnamese prime minister Trần Văn Hương was removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
 * 1996 – Mahamane Ousmane (pictured), the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.
 * 2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sanaa to demand governmental changes.