History for January 27

History for January 27 - On-This-Day.com:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756, Lewis Carroll 1832, Hyman Rickover 1900 


William Randolph Hearst Jr. 1908, David Seville (Chipmunks) 1919, Donna Reed 1921 


1606 - The trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators began. They were executed on January 31. 


1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp. 


1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. 


1948 - Wire Recording Corporation of America announced the first magnetic tape recorder. The ‘Wireway’ machine with a built-in oscillator sold for $149.50. 


1951 - In the U.S., atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats. 


1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft. 


1998 - U.S. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on NBC's "Today" show. She charged that the allegations against her husband were the work of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." 


2010 - Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad.