On December 27, 1943, the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst sank in the Barents Sea, under the guns and torpedoes of a British battle group led by the Duke Of York. — On December 27, 1571, German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered three major laws of planetary motion, was born. — On December 27, 1932, the internal passport system, previously denounced by Vladimir Lenin as one of the worst stigmas of tsarist backwardness and despotism, was reinstated in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin. — On this day in 1979, in an attempt to stabilize the turbulent political situation in Afghanistan, the …
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