01-27-2006, 06:32 AM
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January 27th
1606 ~ The trial of Guy Fawkes and other Gunpowder Plot conspirators began.
1756 ~ Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer.
1832 ~ Birthday of Lewis Carroll, Author (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).
1901 ~ Death of Giuseppe Verdi, Composer.
1944 ~ The Siege of Leningrad was lifted.
1945 ~ The Red Army liberated Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1967 ~ Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft.
1992 ~ Mike Tyson went on trial charged with raping a Miss Black America contestant.
1997 ~ It is revealed that French museums had retained nearly 2,000 pieces of art that were stolen by Nazis.
1998 ~ U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton called the attacks against her husband part of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" on the “Today Show”.
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