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Events
98 – Trajan succeeded his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
1142 – Song dynasty General Yue Fei is executed.
1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1302 – Dante Alighieri, the poet and politician, is exiled from Florence, Italy, where he served as one of six priors governing the city.
1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
1593 – The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
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.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox's "noble train of artillery" arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
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 between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.
1869 – Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1870 – Virginia is readmitted to the Unions after accepting the 15th amendment.
1880 – Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1927 – Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1943 – World War II: The VIII Bomber Command dispatched 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 of the war.
1944 – World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1945 – World War II: The Red Army liberates the remaining inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
1948 – The first tape recorder is sold.
1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger. A one-kiloton bomb is dropped on Frenchman Flat.
1961 – The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
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1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
1974 – The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th century.
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.
1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
1993 – American-born sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna.
1996 – In a military coup Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.
1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2002 – An explosion at a military storage facility in Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.
2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
2006 – Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
2010 – The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
2013 – Two hundred forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the city of Santa Maria, Brazil.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople, Confessor and Doctor of the Church. Double.
Contemporary Western
Angela Merici
Blessed Paul Joseph Nardini
Devota (Monaco)
Enrique de Ossó y Cercelló
John Chrysostom (translation of relics)
Sava (Serbia)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
January 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Venerable Peter of Egypt, disciple of Abba Lot (5th c.)
Saint Marciana the Queen, wife of Emperor Justin I (518-527),
interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles
Saint Dimitrianos the Wonderworker, Bishop of Tamassos, Cyprus
Venerable Claudinus, monastic
Saint Ashot I of Iberia (Ashot Kurapalates), first Bagrationi King of Georgia,
murdered (830)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Julian of Sora, martyred under Antoninus Pius (ca. 150)
Saint Julian of Le Mans, venerated as the first Bishop of Le Mans
in France (3rd c.)
Saint Devota, virgin-martyr in Corsica who expired on the rack
in the persecution of Diocletian (303)
Saint Avitus, venerated in the Canary Islands as their Apostle and first Bishop,
martyred in Africa
Saints Datius, Reatrus (Restius) and Companions; and Datius (Dativus),
Julian, Vincent and 27 Companions (ca. 500)
Saint Maurus (Marius, Maur, May), founder of a monastery in Bodon
(Bobacum) in France (ca. 555)
Saint Natalis of Ulster, a monastic founder in the north of Ireland,
he worked with St Columba (564)
Saint Lupus of Châlons, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saone, famous for his charity
to the afflicted (ca. 610)
Saint Vitalian, Pope of Rome from 657 to 672 (672)
Saint Emerius, founder and first Abbot of St Stephen of Bañoles in Catalonia
in Spain (8th c.)
Saint Candida, mother of St Emerius, anchoress at the monastery of St Stephen
of Bañoles in Spain (ca. 798)
Saint Gamelbert of Michaelsbuch (800)[8][note 8]
Saint Theodoric II of Orleans, monk at Saint-Pierre-le-Vif in Sens in France,
became Bishop of Orleans (1022)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves Monastery (11th century)
New Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople (1784)
Saint Demetrius Klepinine, Priest, of Paris (1944)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Peter (Zverev) of Voronezh (1929)
New Hieromartyr Paul Dobromislov, Protopresbyter of Alma-Ata (1940)
Saint Anna Ivashkina, the Confessor of Ryazan (1948)
Venerable Leonty (Stasevich) of Ivanovo, Archimandrite, New-Confessor (1972)
New Hieromartyr Leontius the Mystic of Ternopil and Jablechna monastery,
Poland (1972)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics (437) of St. John Chrysostom,
Archbishop of Constantinople (407)
Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875)
Repose of Schema-nun Margarita (Lakhtionova) of Diveyevo Monastery (1997)
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