SuperFemme
01-27-2010, 12:55 PM
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2010.
There are 338 days left in the year.
1756: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1880: Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1901: Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.
1943: Some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.
1945: Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1951: An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat.
1967: Astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.
1973: The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
1981: President Ronald Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.
Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2010.
There are 338 days left in the year.
1756: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
1880: Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1901: Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.
1943: Some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.
1945: Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1951: An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat.
1967: Astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.
1973: The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
1981: President Ronald Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.