WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021

1736-Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland

1823-President Monroe appoints first U.S. ambassadors to South America

1926-U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court

1941-Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

1943-First U.S. air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)

1945-Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

1948-First tape recorder sold

1973-U.S. & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war & military draft

1992-Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)

1996-Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day

1998-Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10

1998-WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock