On January 27, 2014, the International Court of Justice in The Hague established the maritime border between Chile and Peru and granted Peru a part of the Chilean sea in the Pacific.
Other Anniversaries:
1880.- Thomas Edison obtains the patent for the electric light bulb.
1923.- The National Socialist Party of Germany (Nazi) holds its first congress in Munich.
1944.- The Red Army breaks the siege of Leningrad after 871 days of Nazi siege.
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1948.- The first magnetic tape recorder goes on sale in the United States.
1965.- General Nguyen Khanh seizes power in South Vietnam.
1967.- American astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee die when the ‘Apollo 1’ capsule catches fire during training.
1973.- North Vietnam and the United States sign a treaty in Paris to end the Vietnam War.
1991.- Rebel forces of the Unified Somali Congress attack the palace of President Siad Barre in Mogadishu, who manages to escape, and take power in the country.
1996.- Colonel Ibrahim Barre Mainasara overthrows the first president of Niger, Mahaman Usman.
2002.- More than 600 deaths as a result of a fire in a powder magazine in Lagos (Nigeria). Most of them drowned while trying to escape the explosions.
2009.- Metropolitan (position within the Orthodox Church) Kirill is elected patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
2010.- Steve Jobs, president of Apple, presents the iPad, a new tablet computer.
2013.- A fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa María (Brazil) causes the death of 242 people, mostly university students.
2017.- US President Donald Trump suspends the issuance of visas from Iran, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya.
2018.- More than one hundred dead in a Taliban attack carried out with an ambulance bomb in the center of Kabul.
2020.- China confirms the first death from coronavirus in Beijing.
2022.- Xiomara Castro is sworn in as president of Honduras, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the country.
Births
1756.- Wolfgang A. Mozart, Austrian musician.
1832.- Charles Dodgson ‘Lewis Carroll’, British writer.
1859.- William II of Germany, last emperor (Kaiser) of the German Empire and last king of Prussia.
1922.- Anne Chapman, American anthropologist.
1934.- Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spanish professor and politician, former director general of UNESCO.
1940.- James Cromwell, American actor.
1941.- Beatrice Hill Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, born in England.
1948.- Mijail Baryshnikov, Latvian dancer and choreographer.
1949.- Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South African politician and anti-apartheid activist.
1964.- Bridget Fonda, American actress.
1976.- Jeremy Hansen, Canadian astronaut.
1979.- Rosamund Pike, British actress.
Deaths
1881.- Manuel Orozco y Berra, Mexican historian.
1901.- Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer.
1986.- Lilí Palmer, German actress.
1994.- Claude Akins, American actor.
1999.- Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, Spanish writer and academic.
2005.- Aurélie Nemours, French poet and painter.
2006.- Johannes Rau, former president of Germany.
2008.- Suharto, former dictator of Indonesia.
2009.- John Updike, American writer.
2010.- JD Salinger, American writer.
2015.- Joe Rígoli, Argentine actor and comedian.
2016.- Artur Fischer, German inventor.
2017.- Emmanuelle Riva, French actress and poet.
2018.- Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman, founder of IKEA.
2019.- Tulio Mora, Peruvian poet.
2021.- Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian.
2022.- Diego Verdaguer, Argentine singer who became a Mexican national.
