Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 27

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January 27: Holocaust Memorial Day

• 1756 - Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in the city of Salzburg.
• 1945 - The Red Army liberated 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camps in Oświęcim, Poland.
• 1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.
• 1967 - The Apollo 1 spacecraft was destroyed by fire at the Kennedy Space Center, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
• 1973 - The Paris Peace Accords were signed to put an end to the Vietnam War.

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