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On this day:

Friday 27 January 1995 00:02 GMT
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27 January is the birthday of Mozart (1756) the death-day of Verdi (1901), and the 120th anniversary of the invention of the battery-powered dental drill.

27 January 1930: women civil servants voted in favour of compulsory retirement for women upon marriage.

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