January 27
January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar. There are 338 days remaining (339 in
leap years).
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98 -
Trajan becomes
Roman Emperor after the death of
Nerva.
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672 -
St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
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847 -
Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
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1142 - Wrongful execution of noted
Song Dynasty General
Yue Fei.
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1186 -
Henry VI, the son and heir of the
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, weds
Constance of Sicily.
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1343 -
Pope Clement VI issues the Bull
Unigenitus.
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1593 -
Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar
Giordano Bruno.
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1606 -
Gunpowder Plot: The trial of
Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, and ending in their execution on
January 31.
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1695 -
Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman
sultan in
Istanbul on the death of
Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his death in
1703.
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1785 - The
University of Georgia is founded.
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1825 -
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."
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1870 - The first college
sorority,
Kappa Alpha Theta, is formed at
DePauw University.
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1880 -
Thomas Edison files a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
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1888 - In
Washington, D.C., the
National Geographic Society is founded.
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1900 -
Boxer Rebellion: Foreign diplomats in
Peking,
China demand that the Boxer rebels be disciplined.
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1909 - The
Young Left is founded in
Norway.
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1915 -
United States Marines occupy
Haiti.
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1926 -
John Logie Baird demonstrates the first
television broadcast.
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1939 -
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of
U.S. war planes to
France.
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1941 -
World War II: Fighting at
Derna, Libya, begins. Following the capture of
Tobruk, two brigades of the
6th Australian Division under
Major General Iven Mackay pursue the
Italians westwards and encounters an
Italian rear guard at
Derna.
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1943 - World War II: Fifty bombers mount the first entirely
American air raid against
Germany, targeting
Wilhelmshaven.
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1944 - World War II: The two-year
Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
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1945 - World War II: The
Red Army arrives at
Auschwitz and
Birkenau in
Poland and find the
Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people had been murdered.
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1951 -
Nuclear testing at the
Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on
Frenchman Flats.
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1967 -
Project Apollo:
Apollo 1 -
Astronauts
Gus Grissom,
Edward White and
Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the spacecraft at the
Kennedy Space Center.
* 1967 - More than sixty nations sign the
Outer Space Treaty banning
nuclear weapons in space.
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1969 - The present-day Hetch Hetchy
Moccasin Powerhouse, rated at 100,000KVA was completed and placed in operation.
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1973 -
Paris Peace Accords officially end the
Vietnam War.
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1983 - World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens in Japan connecting the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido.
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1984 -
Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9¼ inches (23.5 centimeters) with a 28-foot, 10¼-inch (8.795-meter) jump.
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1996 - Colonel
Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of
Niger,
Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
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1996 -
Germany observes its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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1997 - It is revealed that
French museums have nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by
Nazis.
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1998 -
American First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears on the
Today Show calling the attacks against her husband part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.
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2001 - Ten members of the
Oklahoma State University men's basketball team and support staff die in a plane crash in
Colorado.
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2002 - Several explosions at a military dump in
Lagos,
Nigeria kill more than 1,000.
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1443 -
Albert, Duke of Saxony (d.
1500)
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1546 -
Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (d.
1608)
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1585 -
Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d.
1634)
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1603 -
Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d.
1685)
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1621 -
Thomas Willis, English physician (d.
1675)
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1662 -
Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d.
1742)
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1687 -
Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d.
1753)
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1701 -
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (d.
1790)
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1720 -
Samuel Foote, English dramatist (d.
1777)
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1741 -
Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d.
1821)
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1756 -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d.
1791)
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1805 -
Samuel Palmer, English artist (d.
1881)
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1806 -
Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Spanish composer (d.
1826)
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1814 -
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d.
1879)
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1823 -
Edouard Lalo, French composer (d.
1892)
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1826 -
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d.
1889)
* 1826 -
Richard Taylor, American Confederate general (d.
1879)
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1832 -
Lewis Carroll, English author (d.
1898)
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1836 -
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (d.
1895)
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1841 -
Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d.
1910)
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1848 -
Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d.
1934)
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1850 -
Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (d.
1924)
* 1850 -
Edward J. Smith, English captain of the Titanic (d.
1912)
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1859 - Emperor
Wilhelm II of Germany (d.
1941)
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1885 -
Jerome Kern, American composer (d.
1945)
* 1885 -
Eduard Künneke, German composer (d.
1953)
* 1885 -
Harry Ruby, American musician (d.
1974)
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1891 -
Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (d.
1967)
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1893 -
Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of
Sun Yat-sen (d.
1981)
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1900 -
Hyman Rickover, American admiral (d.
1986)
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1901 -
Art Rooney, American football team owner (d.
1988)
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1903 -
John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist,
Nobel Prize Laureate (d.
1997)
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1905 -
Howard McNear, American actor (d.
1969)
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1908 -
Oran "Hot Lips" Page, American musician (d.
1954)
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1918 -
Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (d.
2005)
* 1918 -
Elmore James, American blues musician (d.
1963)
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1919 -
Ross Bagdasarian, American musician (d.
1972)
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1920 -
Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d.
2002)
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1921 -
Donna Reed, American actress (d.
1986)
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1924 -
Sabu, Indian actor (d.
1963)
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1926 -
Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d.
2003)
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1929 -
Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d.
1984)
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1930 -
Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
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1931 -
Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d.
2001)
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1932 -
Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
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1936 -
Troy Donahue, American actor (d.
2001)
* 1936 -
Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist,
Nobel Prize Laureate*
1937 -
John Ogdon, English pianist (d.
1989)
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1940 -
James Cromwell, American actor
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1944 -
Mairéad Corrigan, Irish activist,
Nobel Prize Laureate* 1944 -
Nick Mason, English musician (
Pink Floyd)
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1945 -
Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d.
2005)
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1946 -
Nedra Talley, American singer (
Ronettes)
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1950 -
Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
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1954 -
Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
* 1954 -
Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
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1955 -
John Glover Roberts, Jr., 17th
Chief Justice of the United States* 1955 -
Alexander Stuart, British author
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1956 -
Mimi Rogers, American actress
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1957 -
Janick Gers, English musician (
Iron Maiden)
* 1957 -
Frank Miller, American author
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1958 -
Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
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1959 -
Keith Olbermann, American sportscaster
* 1959 -
Cris Collinsworth, American football player
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1961 -
Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (
Cowboy Junkies)
* 1961 -
Gillian Gilbert, British musician (
New Order)
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1964 -
Bridget Fonda, American actress
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1965 -
Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
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1967 -
Bobby Deol, Indian actor
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1968 -
Mike Patton, American singer (
Faith No More)
* 1968 -
Tricky, English rapper
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1969 -
Cornelius, musician, singer and producer (
Flipper's Guitar)
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1970 -
Mark Trojanowski, American musician (
Sister Hazel)
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1971 -
Fann Wong, Singapore entertainer (
Shanghai Knights)
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1972 -
Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
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1974 -
Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
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1976 -
Clint Ford, American voice actor
* 1976 -
Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
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1979 -
Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
* 1979 -
Rosamund Pike, British actress
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1980 -
Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
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1981 -
Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
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1987 -
Lily Donaldson, British model
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1988 -
Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer
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98 -
Nerva,
Roman Emperor (b.
35)
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1490 -
Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b.
1435)
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1629 -
Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b.
1560)
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1638 -
Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist
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1731 -
Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b.
1655)
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1740 -
Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b.
1692)
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1814 -
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b.
1762)
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1816 -
Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b.
1724)
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1851 -
John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, ornithologist, and painter (b.
1785)
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1857 -
Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b.
1785)
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1860 -
János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b.
1802)
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1880 -
Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b.
1830)
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1901 -
Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (b.
1813)
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1910 -
Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b.
1836)
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1919 -
Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (b.
1877)
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1940 -
Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b.
1894)
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1956 -
Erich Kleiber, Argentine conductor (b.
1890)
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1967 - Crew of
Apollo 1:
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Roger Chaffee (b.
1935)
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Virgil "Gus" Grissom (b.
1926)
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Edward White (b.
1930)
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1970 -
Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b.
1908)
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1971 -
Jacobo Arbenz,
President of Guatemala (b.
1913)
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1972 -
Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b.
1911)
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1975 -
Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b.
1913)
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1983 -
Louis de Funès, French actor (b.
1914)
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1986 -
Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (b.
1914)
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1988 -
Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b.
1938)
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1989 -
Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b.
1888)
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1992 -
Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b.
1908)
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1993 -
André the Giant, professional wrestler and actor (b.
1946)
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1994 -
Claude Akins, American actor (b.
1918)
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1996 -
Ralph Yarborough, American politician (b.
1903)
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2000 -
Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b.
1930)
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2003 -
Henryk Jabłoński,
President of communist People's Republic of Poland (b.
1909)
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2004 -
Jack Paar, American television show host (b.
1918)
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2006 -
Johannes Rau, 8th
Bundespräsident (President of Germany) (b.
1931)
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UN —
International Holocaust Memorial Day *
United Kingdom —
Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Germany —
Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Commemoration Day for the Victims of
National Socialism).
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Poland —
Dzień Pamięci Ofiar Nazizmu (Memorial Day for the Victims of
Nazism).
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Italy —
Giorno della Memoria (Memorial Day).
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Catholicism —
Catholic Schools Week.
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Serbia —
St. Sava Day.
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Denmark —
Auschwitzdag (
Auschwitz Day; commemoration day for the victims of the
Holocaust and other genocide).
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NY Times: On this day*
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