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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_27" title="January 27">January 27</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1799" title="1799">1799</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars" title="French Revolutionary Wars">French Revolutionary Wars</a>: In the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_Incident_(1799)" title="Macau Incident (1799)">Macau Incident</a></b>, French and Spanish warships encountered a British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> escort squadron in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanshan_Archipelago" title="Wanshan Archipelago">Wanshan Archipelago</a>; subsequent events, including which side retreated, were disputed by the commanders present.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996" title="1996">1996</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamane_Ousmane" title="Mahamane Ousmane">Mahamane Ousmane</a></b>, the first democratically elected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Niger" title="List of heads of state of Niger">president of Niger</a>, was deposed by Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Bar%C3%A9_Ma%C3%AFnassara" title="Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara">Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara</a> in a military <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">coup d'état</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003" title="2003">2003</a> – The first selections for the United States <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recording_Registry" title="National Recording Registry">National Recording Registry</a></b> were announced by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011" title="2011">2011</a> – Astronomers documented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H1504%2B65" title="H1504+65"><span class="nowrap">H1504+65</span></a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf" title="White dwarf">white dwarf</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Minor" title="Ursa Minor">Ursa Minor</a></b> with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin" title="Kelvin">kelvins</a> (360,000 °F).</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titumir" title="Titumir">Titumir</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1782); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Al-Fayed" title="Mohamed Al-Fayed">Mohamed Al-Fayed</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1929); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Ocampo" title="Victoria Ocampo">Victoria Ocampo</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1979); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Zorner" title="Paul Zorner">Paul Zorner</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2014)</p>
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