On this day …
January 27, 2018
- In 98, Trajan became emperor of Rome.
- In 1606, the trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot began.
- In 1785, the University of Georgia was founded.
- In 1951, the U.S. government began testing nuclear weapons in the Nevada desert.
- In 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee, and Ed White were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 capsule.
- In 1973, the Paris Peace Accord officially ended the war in Vietnam.
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