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Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was born on May 9, 1949, in Dogondoutchi, Niger.
January 27 in History
50 events
98 – 2023
Today in history
January 27 spans 50 recorded events across recorded history, from 98 to 2023. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.
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1996 — In a military coup, Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane
More major events on January 27
The featured story and these ranked highlights form a quick summary. Every recorded event remains available in the chronology below.
- 1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty. Source
- 1967 Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. Source
- 2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras. Source
98
417
Pope Innocent I declares Pelagius and his follower Caelestius excommunicated unless they return to orthodoxy.
Head of the Catholic Church from 401 to 417
945
The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine emperor from 924 to 945
1186
Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 to 1197
1302
Dante Alighieri is condemned in absentia and exiled from Florence.
Italian writer and philosopher (1265–1321)
1343
Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus, laying out the scriptural justification for indulgences, identifying only the Pope and episcopate as capable of accessing the treasury of merit, and establishing a jubilee year every half century.
Head of the Catholic Church from 1342 to 1352
1606
Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1605 failed attempt to kill King James I of England
1695
Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II.
Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1726
J.
S. Bach leads the first performance of Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72, concluding his third Christmas season in Leipzig on the Third Sunday after Epiphany.
1759
Spanish forces clash with indigenous Huilliches of southern Chile in the battle of Río Bueno.
Ethnic group native to south-central Chile
1776
American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1775–1783 conflict in North America
1785
The University of Georgia is founded, the first state-chartered public university in the United States.
Public university in Athens, Georgia, US
1820
A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
Russian state from 1721 to 1917
1825
The U.S.
Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1868
Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins, between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions; it will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
1868–1869 Japanese civil war
1869
Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1869 short-lived state on Hokkaido
1874
Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov premieres in Mariinsky Theatre in St.Petersburg.
Russian composer (1839–1881)
1880
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
1916
World War I: The British government passes the Military Service Act that introduces conscription in the United Kingdom.
Global conflict from 1914 to 1918
1924
Six days after his death, Vladimir Lenin's body is carried into a specially erected mausoleum.
1924 death and funeral of the Soviet Union's first leader
1927
1928
Bundaberg tragedy: a diphtheria vaccine is contaminated with Staph.
aureus bacterium, resulting in the deaths of twelve children in the Australian town of Bundaberg.
1939
1943
World War II: The Eighth Air Force sorties ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-boat construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
This was the first American bombing attack on Germany.
1944
World War II: The 872-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
Blockade by the Axis powers, 1941–1944
1945
World War II: The Soviet 322nd Rifle Division liberates the remaining inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Military unit
1951
Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
Controlled detonation of nuclear weapons for scientific or political purposes
1961
The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
Diesel-electric submarine of the Soviet Navy
1965
South Vietnamese Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương is removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
Penultimate President of South Vietnam in 1975
1967
Apollo program: Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1961–1972 American crewed lunar exploration program
1967
Cold War: The Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting the usage of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
1973
The Paris Peace Accords officially ends the Vietnam War.
Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1980
Through cooperation between the U.S.
and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
1983
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.
Undersea railway tunnel in Japan
1996
Germany first observes the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
International memorial day on 27 January for the victims of Nazi genocides
2002
An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
Accidental bomb detonation
2003
The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
List of sound recordings preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress
2010
The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
Political crisis in Honduras
2011
Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.
2010s protests and revolutions in the Arab world
2011
Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
2013
Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.
2013 fire in Santa Maria, Brazil
2014
Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.
Military and political conflict in northern Syria
2017
A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.
Chemical element with atomic number 117 (Ts)
2023
Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S.
after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.
2023
A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.
Mass murder of Israelis in East Jerusalem
2023
An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.
2023 shooting in Iran