What happend on 27th January

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28.01
1967

More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.

1967

Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.

1951

Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.

1945

World War II: The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration campwhere 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered (most of them were jews).

1944

World War II: The two year Siege of Leningrad is lifted.

1943

World War II: 50 bombers mount the first entirely American air raid against Germany, targeting Wilhelmshaven.

1941

World War II: Fighting at Derna, Libya, begins Following the capture of Tobruk 2 brigades of the 6th Australian Division under Major General Iven Mackay pursued the Italians westwards and encountered an Italian rear guard at Derna.

1939

The President of the United-States Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.

1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates the first television broadcast.

1915

United States Marines occupy Haiti.