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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/945" title="945">945</a> – The brothers <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lekapenos" title="Stephen Lekapenos">Stephen</a></b> and <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Lekapenos" title="Constantine Lekapenos">Constantine Lekapenos</a></b>, having deposed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanos_I_Lekapenos" title="Romanos I Lekapenos">their father</a> as Byzantine emperor a few weeks earlier, were themselves overthrown by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a>, their co-emperor.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1820" title="1820">1820</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Russian_Antarctic_Expedition" title="First Russian Antarctic Expedition">A Russian expedition</a> led by the naval officers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Gottlieb_von_Bellingshausen" title="Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen">Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lazarev" title="Mikhail Lazarev">Mikhail Lazarev</a> made the first sighting of the coast of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945" title="1945">1945</a> – The Soviet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp">liberated about 7,000 prisoners</a></b> left behind by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazis</a> in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" title="Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz concentration camp</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane" title="Brisbane">Brisbane</a>, Australia, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood" title="1974 Brisbane flood">was flooded</a></b> when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane_River" title="Brisbane River">Brisbane River</a> broke its banks.</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></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merici" title="Angela Merici">Angela Merici</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1540); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Hale_Cobb" title="Eunice Hale Cobb">Eunice Hale Cobb</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1803); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chuan-kwang" title="Yang Chuan-kwang">Yang Chuan-kwang</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2007)</p>