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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47693)1/27/2005 4:16:22 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-January 27: Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom

1888 - The National Geographic Society, publisher of the National Geographic magazine, was founded.

1945 - The Red Army liberated 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camps in Oswiecim, Poland.

1951 - Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a one-megaton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats.

1967 - The Apollo 1 spacecraft was destroyed by fire at the Kennedy Space Center, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

1973 - The Paris Peace Accords were signed to put an end to the Vietnam War.