He January 27 1967 American astronauts died Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee after the capsule of the ‘Apollo 1‘during a workout.
Other anniversaries
1880.- Thomas Edison obtains the patent for the electric light bulb.
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1923.- The National Socialist Party of Germany (Nazi) holds its first congress in Munich.
1944.- The Red Army breaks the siege of Leningrad after 871 days of Nazi siege.
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[1945.- Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
1948.- The first magnetic tape recorder goes on sale in the United States.
1965.- General Nguyen Khanh takes power in South Vietnam.
1973.- North Vietnam and the United States sign a treaty in Paris to end the Vietnam War.
2002.- More than 600 dead as a result of a fire in a powder magazine in Lagos (Nigeria). Most of them drowned while trying to escape the explosions.
2013.- A fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa María (Brazil) causes the death of 242 people, most of them university students.
2017.- Former Panamanian dictator Antonio Noriega testifies for the first time before a judge in his country for the murder charges for which he was convicted in absentia while he was serving prison in the United States for drug trafficking.
2018.- More than a hundred dead in a Taliban attack carried out with an ambulance bomb in the center of Kabul.
2020.- China confirms the first death from coronavirus in Beijing.
2022.- Xiomara Castro is sworn in as president of Honduras, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the country.
Births
1756.- Wolfgang A. Mozart, Austrian musician.
1832.- Charles Dodgson ‘Lewis Carroll’, British writer,
1859.- William II of Germany, last emperor (Kaiser) of the German Empire and last king of Prussia.
1922.- Anne Chapman, American anthropologist.
1934.- Edith Cresson, French politician, the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of France, between 1991 and 1992.
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1941.- Beatrice Hill Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, born in England.
1948.- Mijail Baryshnikov, Latvian dancer and choreographer.
1949.-Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South African politician and anti-apartheid activist.
1964.- Bridget Fonda, American actress.
1979.- Rosamund Pike, British actress.
Deaths
1901.- Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer.
1986.- Lilí Palmer, German actress.
1994.- Claude Akins, American actor.
2005.- Aurélie Nemours, French poet and painter.
2006.- Johannes Rau, former president of Germany.
2008.- Suharto, former dictator of Indonesia.
2009.- John Updike, American writer.
2010.- JD Salinger, American writer.
2018.- Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman, founder of IKEA.
2019.- Tulio Mora, Peruvian poet.
