Sunday, January 27, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – JANUARY 27


HISTORICAL EVENTS 


Portrait of Dante by Sandro Botticelli from Wikipedia

1302 – Poet and politician, Durante degli "Dante" Alighieri, is exiled from Florence. now in Italy as il Poeta, it wasn't until his banishment that he began work on the Divine Comedy. Dante was also responsible for development of the modern Italian language.


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


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1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee die in launch pad fire at Cape Kennedy. 

"It was all over within 30 seconds, perhaps the longest half-minute in NASA’s history. Pandemonium broke out as the capsule filled with flames and toxic smoke, and Chaffee could be heard yelling, 'Let’s get out! We’ve got a bad fire! We’re burning up!'

Screaming was heard before the communications cut out. The command module ruptured. The three astronauts lost consciousness and died of smoke inhalation within 15 to 30 seconds after their suits failed, the official report estimated." 
 From Wikipedia


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1970 – John Lennon writes and records "Instant Karma" in a single day.


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1973 – Paris Peace Accords are signed officially ending the Vietnam War.


FAMOUS BIRTHS



1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg, Austria, musical prodigy/composer (The Magic Flute and over 600 other works), (d. 1791).




1832 – English mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and writer, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Alice in Wonderland, (d. 1898)



1936 – Samuel C.C. Ting, Ann Arbor, Michigan, American physicist, Nobel Laureate (1976) for discovering the subatomic J/ψ paticle.



FAMOUS DEATHS


1901 – Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, Italian Romantic composer, dies at 77 (Rigoletto, La Traviata).


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1972 – American Gosepel singer, Mahalia Jackson, (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60.



2010 – Jerome David "J. D." Salinger, American novelist, The Catcher in the Rye, (b. 1919).



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