Paracultural Calendar for Jan 27

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in *98*, *Trajan* succeeded his adoptive father *Nerva* as
Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum
extent.

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On this day in *1593*, the Vatican opens the seven-year trial of
scholar *Giordano
Bruno*.

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On this day in *1606*, the trial of *Guy Fawkes* and other conspirators
begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

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On this day in *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".

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On this day in *1945*, the Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the
territory of Poland.

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On this day in *1967*, on the same day that the UK, USA and USSR sign the
Outer Space Treaty in Washington DC banning deployment of nuclear weapons
in space, astronauts *Gus Grissom*,*Edward White* and *Roger Chaffee* are
killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy
Space Center, Florida.

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On this day in *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.

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On this day in *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. This event is the basis of the film
*Argo*.

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On this day in *1984*, pop singer *Michael Jackson* suffers second degree
burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine
Auditorium.

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On this day in *1993*, American-born sumo wrestler *Akebono Tarō* becomes
the first foreigner to be promoted to the sport's highest rank of yokozuna.

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On this day in *1996*, Germany first observes International Holocaust
Remembrance Day.

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On this day in *2002*, an explosion at a military storage facility in
Lagos, Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000
others.

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On this day in *2013*, 242 people die in a nightclub fire in the city of
Santa Maria, Brazil.
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