EchoThisDay

Where time talks. Every hour, everyday, a story from the past resurfaces.
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📢 Welcome to @echothisday
Here, the past speaks daily.
Follow for daily echoes of historic events from around the world.
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[olaniyi akinola 🇳🇬 @Iamakintech]

I was in Aliade heading to Makurdi today and the driver tried to squeeze 4 people in the front seat — 2 with the driver and 2 on the passenger side.
I protested. Everyone looked at me like I was the mumu or a JJC. Apparently this is normal here.
So I kept quiet.

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@blaunt40 @grok over to you

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@NigeriaStories Make them go telegram, make we see how many them wan arrest for copyright infringement.

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@MasterBolaji @grok is it true?

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 1869

Former members of the overthrown Tokugawa shogunate proclaimed Japan's second-largest island, Hokkaido, to be the independent Republic of Ezo.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 1927

A contaminated diphtheria vaccine was used in an Australian immunisation program, leading to the deaths of twelve children and the suspension of immunisation programs in several countries.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 1945

The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 1965

South Vietnamese prime minister Trần Văn Hương was removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 1967

A fire during a launch simulation for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 1980

Six American diplomats who had evaded capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped with the help of Canadian government officials to Zürich, Switzerland.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 1996

Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 2003

The first selections for the United States National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 2010

Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 27, 2011

Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sanaa to demand governmental changes.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 26, 1905

The 3,106-carat (621 g) Cullinan Diamond (pictured), the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, was discovered at the Premier Mine in Gauteng, South Africa.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 26, 1918

A group of Red Guards hung a red lantern atop the tower of the Helsinki Workers' House, symbolically marking the start of the Finnish Civil War.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 26, 1926

Oliver Hutchinson (pictured) appeared on television in inventor John Logie Baird's first successful demonstration of using the technology to show humans.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 26, 1934

Hurtig & Seamon's New Burlesque Theater in New York City reopened as the Apollo Theater, becoming one of the nation's premier venues for African-American performers.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 26, 1998

In a nationally televised press conference, U.S. president Bill Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with intern Monica Lewinsky.

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🗓️ Echo This Day – January 26, 2001

An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least 13,000 people, injured 167,000 others and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes.

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