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January 27

Mahamane Ousmane

1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: In the Macau Incident, French and Spanish warships encountered a British Royal Navy escort squadron in the Wanshan Archipelago; subsequent events, including which side retreated, were disputed by the commanders present.
1996 – Mahamane Ousmane (pictured), the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.
2003 – The first selections for the United States National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress.
2011 – Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F).

Titumir (b. 1782)
Mohamed Al-Fayed (b. 1929)
Victoria Ocampo (d. 1979)
Paul Zorner (d. 2014)

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