JANUARY 27
1967:Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee are killed by a flash fire inside the command module of their Apollo I spacecraft during a prelaunch test at Cape Kennedy, Fla. The precise cause of the fire has never been officially determined, but investigations have pointed to the highly pressurized, 100 percent oxygen environment inside the module as contributing to the tragedy.
1888: The National Geographic Society is officially incorporated in Washington, D.C., with lawyer and philanthropist Gardiner Greene Hubbard as its first president. Nine months after its founding, the society will begin publishing National Geographic magazine, today a leading publication on the natural world.
1945: After advancing deep into southern Poland, the Soviet Red Army enters the concentration camps at Auschwitz, liberating more than 7,000 prisoners who have survived the atrocities perpetrated there by the Nazis. It is estimated that 1.3 million people perished there, most of them Jews, along with thousands of others.
1888: The National Geographic Society is officially incorporated in Washington, D.C., with lawyer and philanthropist Gardiner Greene Hubbard as its first president. Nine months after its founding, the society will begin publishing National Geographic magazine, today a leading publication on the natural world.
1945: After advancing deep into southern Poland, the Soviet Red Army enters the concentration camps at Auschwitz, liberating more than 7,000 prisoners who have survived the atrocities perpetrated there by the Nazis. It is estimated that 1.3 million people perished there, most of them Jews, along with thousands of others.
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