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January 27th

1825 Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies. Lincoln's War Order was aimed mainly at McClellan who commanded the Army of the Potomac. McClellan had his first experience with war in the Mexican War.
1916 President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program. When the United States entered World War I, propagandist George Creel set out to stifle anti-war sentiment.
1935 A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates. The rise of militaristic nationalism led Japan down the road to Pearl Harbor and World War II.
1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.
1941 The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington.
1943 The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden. Billy Mitchell fought for his beliefs--but he did not live to see his unorthodox concepts bear fruit in WWII.
1959 NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight.Mercury astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
1965 Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon.
1967 Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft.
1973 A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam. As the war in Vietnam wound down with the signing of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, the war in neighboring Cambodia was going from bad to worse.
1978 The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois.
1985 Pope John Paul says mass to one million in Venezuela.


Born on January 27
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musical genius and composer whose works included The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute.
1850 Samuel Gompers, first President of American Federation of Labor.
1859 Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor who ruled Germany during World War I but was forced to abdicate in 1918.
1900 Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine."

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