On this day — January 27

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.

East Jerusalem, kills seven people and injures three others.

Tehran, kills one person and injures three others.

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

Rio Grande do Sul.

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

Nigeria, kills at least 1,100 people and displaces over 20,000 others.

Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane.

the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.