On This Day: January 27th

Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.

A shooting at a synagogue in Neve Yaakov, East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.

An attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Pasdaran, Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.

A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.

Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.

Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.

Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.

The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

Apple announces the iPad.