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Sunday, January 27, 2008

January 27

On This Day In History

1973: Vietnam War ended

The Paris accord ending the Vietnam War, America's longest war, was signed this day in 1973, providing for an exchange of prisoners and for the unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam.

South Vietnamese soldiers with Viet Cong prisoners in the Mekong delta, 1962.

Biography Of The Day

Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who is widely recognized as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music and who excelled at all the musical genres of his era, was born this day in 1756.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, portrait by Fra Felice Cignaroli; in the Mozarts Geburtshaus in Salzburg, ?

More Events On This Day In History

1996

1996

Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara led a successful military coup in Niger against the democratically elected government of President Mahamane Ousmane.

1967

U.S. astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee perished in a fire aboard Apollo 1.

1945

The Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, was liberated by Soviet troops.

1944

1944

The Soviet Red Army ousted German and Finnish forces from Leningrad (St. Petersburg), concluding an 872-day siege.

1880

American inventor Thomas Edison patented the incandescent lamp.

1832

1832

Mathematician and novelist Lewis Carroll was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.

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