1695 | Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II. | |
1825 | Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears." | |
1862 | President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies. | |
1900 | Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels. | |
1905 | Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties. | |
1916 | President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program. | |
1918 | Communists attempt to seize power in Finland. | |
1924 | Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin. | |
1935 | A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates. | |
1939 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France. | |
1941 | The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington. | |
1943 | The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden. | |
1959 | NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight. | |
1965 | Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon. | |
1967 | Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft. | |
1973 | A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam. | |
1978 | The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois. | |
1985 | Pope John Paul says mass to one million in Venezuela. |
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
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