PHOTOS: Today in history — January 27

Amy Sancetta, The Associated Press

John McEnroe kicks back a television camera that he felt was crowding him on the court during the finals of the U.S. Pro Indoor Tennis Championships in Philadelphia Jan. 27, 1985. McEnroe defeated Czech Miroslav Mecir to win the tournament.

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Smoke from tear gas drifts above demonstrators held in check by dark-uniformed, club-wielding police and armed soldiers during a riot in Attaturk Square, Nicosia, Cyprus, on Jan. 27, 1958. Police carry shields and soldiers mesh protectors as they force back mob which hurled stones and bottles at them. Turkish flags can be seen at left background.

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Sculptor prepares life-size statue of famed Seabiscuit for its dedication at Santa Anita track, near Los Angeles, Feb. 6th. The statue which is the work of Hulette “Tex” Weeler, internationally noted sculptor of horses will be unveiled in the paddock area of the Southern California track which was the scene of many of Seabiscuit’s triumphs. Seabiscuit himself, all time money winner of turfdom, will come out of his retirement on the Willets, Calif., ranch of his owner, C.S. Howard, to be present at the dedication ceremonies. On that day also Santa Anita will hold the “Seabiscuit Handicap” in his honor. In the picture “Tex” Wheeler, the sculptor, is shown in final work on the 2500 pound bronze statue in the plant of the Nelli Art Bronze Works at Los Angeles Jan. 27, 1941, where it was cast. Same was moulding. Wheeler works on the head.

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Mao Tse-tung, second from right, talks with Associated Press correspondent John Roderick, left, in Yenan, China, as they await a flight carrying communist Chinese negotiator Chou En Lai, Jan. 27, 1946.

Carl Nesensohn, The Associated Press

At the private desk of Thomas A. Edison, Norman R. Speiden, curator of the library on Jan. 27, 1948, studies the inventor’s original phonograph, made in 1877. The contents of the desk, as they were found when it was opened in 1946, fifteen years after Edison’s death, include a sealed can of lithium, bottle of reduced iron, chlorinated rubber, “Carissa” jelly made by a Mrs. Stevens in 1928, old papers and business letters and contract early phonograph, dating from 1878 to 1890.

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File-This Aug. 28, 1948, file photo shows Henry A. Wallace, listening to Pete Seeger, his banjo-playing singer, on a plane between Norfolk and Richmond, Va. The American troubadour, folk singer and activist Seeger died Monday Jan. 27, 2014, at age 94.

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Germany's former Kaiser Wilhelm II poses with his favourite dog for his official 70th birthday portrait, in exile in Doorn, Netherlands, Jan. 27, 1929. Wilhelm II abdicated Germany's throne, Nov. 10, 1918, at the close of the First World War, and was exiled to the Netherlands.

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This photo, taken in the winter months of 1942, shows citizens of Leningrad as they dig up water from a broken main, during the 900-day siege of the Russian city by German invaders.

Lennox McLendon, The Associated Press

Singer Michael Jackson looks out from an ambulance as he arrives at Brotman Memorial Hospital in Culver City, Jan. 27, 1984, after suffering second-degree burns on his scalp while filming a Pepsi commercial, according to officials.

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Princesses Elizabeth, left, and Margaret Rose sign their one-pound savings certificates after buying the first two as they were made available to the public, Jan. 27, 1943.

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British rock singer David Bowie is photographed at a news conference to announce the signing of a multi-million dollar contract with EMI-America in Manhattan, New York City, on Jan. 27, 1983.

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A Siberian husky, Lady, poses for her picture with Cpl. Roland Doncess at the Bivouac area of Task Force Frigid near Fairbanks, Alaska, Jan. 27, 1947. Members of the Army Task Force are testing equipment in temperatures ranging from 40 to 50 degrees below zero.

Mark Elias, The Associated Press

Brent Atteberry evens his tan at a suntan salon in Chicago on Friday, Jan. 27, 1984 while most city dwellers were bundling up against the winter cold dreaming of some sunny beachfront. The goggles are worn to protect eyes from tanning rays.

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Frozen whale meat is cut into slabs for packing, at the Tokyo fishing wharves, Jan. 27, 1948, after the whaler unloads its cargo from the Antarctic.

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Richard Button of Englewood, N.J. who will represent the United States in the men's figure skating competition at the Winter Olympics at St. Moritz, Switzerland, makes a sensational leap during practice there, Jan. 27, 1948. Button recently won the European figure skating for men in competition at Prague, Czechoslovakia. Opening ceremonies for the St. Moritz games will take place Jan. 30,1948.

Max Desfor, The Associated Press

A pair of bound hands and a breathing hole in the snow at Yangji, Korea, Jan. 27, 1951 reveal the presence of the body of a Korean civilian shot and left to die by retreating Communists during the Korean War.

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Making his comeback as a singer, Eddie Fisher performs at the Desert Inn, Jan. 27, 1964 in Las Vegas, Nev. Fisher feels he’s having a second chance after failure of two marriages, to actresses Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. He neglected his singing during the Taylor marriage, but now is working hard at it.

Edward Kitch, The Associated Press

Tandem hair drying is possible with a new two-hood attachment for any electric hair dryer manufactured by Postcraft Co of Tucson, Ariz., shown in Chicago, Jan. 27, 1965. A Y adapter permits two hoses to be attached to the dryer.

Rusty Kennedy, The Associated Press

Arthur Ashe of Miami, Fla., stretches out as he returns the ball to Fred Stolle during their match in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1976. Ashe won 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, during the second day of the Pro Indoor Tennis Championship.

The new World Trade Center is shown under construction at Varick Street by the Hudson River, New York City, Jan. 27, 1970.

David F. Smith, The Associated Press

This array of keyboards, patch cords, knobs, dials, flashing lights and tape recorders is called a Moog synthesizer, a device which Mort Garson, rear, says an simulate any sound, musical or nonmusical. Operating the equipment is Gene Hamblin, Jan. 27, 1971. There are several hundred similar devices, made by Robert Moog of Trumansburg, N.Y., around the country, mostly in colleges teaching electronic music.

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The charred interior of the Apollo 1 spacecraft after the flash fire that killed astronauts Ed White, Roger Chaffee, and Virgil Grissom, on Jan. 27, 1967 at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Photographed on Jan.28,1967 this severely damaged area is the most likely region for the start of the blaze. The area is near the floor in the lower forward section of the left hand equipment bay below the spacecraft's Environmental Control Unit. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released a report in Washington about this incident on April 9, 1967.

Nick Ut, The Associated Press

Singing Star Prince is all smiles as he addresses the audience at the American Music Awards Monday evening in Los Angeles, Jan 27, 1986.