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Today in History...

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.

February 1st 1975

Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department!

February 3, 1959

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" were killed in a plane crash in Iowa shortly after take off. Buddy's base player gave up his seat on the plane so a sick Big Bopper could fly instead of drive. We know that base player as the late Waylon Jennings.