Tuesday, January 27, 2026

History for January 27

History for January 27 - On-This-Day.com 
Hyman Rickover 1900
  • 1880 - Thomas Edison patented the electric incandescent lamp.
  • 1945 - Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
  • 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.
  • 1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
  • 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."
  • 1999 - The U.S. Senate blocked dismissal of the impeachment case against President Clinton and voted for new testimony from Monica Lewinsky and two other witnesses.

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