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Encyclopaedia Britannica | On This Day
January 27
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Austrian composer
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Vietnam War, 1965

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1973

Vietnam War ended
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