On this day …
January 27, 2015
- In 1302, Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence, Italy.
- In 1606, the trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators in the “Gunpowder Plot” began.
- In 1785, the University of Georgia, the first public university in the United States, was founded.
- In 1888, the National Geographic Society was founded in Washington, D.C.
- In 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated inmates at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
- In 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in the Apollo 1 fire at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- In 1973, the Paris Peace Accords officially ended the Vietnam War.
- In 2006, Western Union discontinued its telegram and commercial messaging services.
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