Daily Archives: January 27, 2015

Ringo Starr releases ‘No No Song’/’Snookeroo’ single in U.S. 40 years ago today (Jan 27 1975)


Video: 'No No Song // Goodnight Vienna // Ringo Starr'

(Monday, January 27, 1975)“No No Song”/“Snookeroo” by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr was released today in the U.S., the second single from his album Goodnight Vienna. Continue reading Ringo Starr releases ‘No No Song’/’Snookeroo’ single in U.S. 40 years ago today (Jan 27 1975)

Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland liberated by Soviets 70 years ago this hour (Jan 27 1945)


Video: 'Holocaust- The Liberation Of Auschwitz' (parts 1-3)

(Saturday, January 27, 1945, at around 3:00 p.m. local time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 7,500 prisoners (including Otto Frank, the father of diarist Anne Frank) at Auschwitz, a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps near the German-occupied Polish town of Oswiecim, were liberated this afternoon as soldiers of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front marched into the camp, ten days after 58,000 detainees were evacuated under guard, largely on foot. Continue reading Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland liberated by Soviets 70 years ago this hour (Jan 27 1945)