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On January 27th... 1756 Composer Wolfang Amadeus Mozart was born. 1832 Author Lewis Carroll was born. 1850 American labor leader Samuel Gompers was born. 1854 The Canadian Great Western Railway started operating. 1859 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany was born. 1880 Thomas Edison was granted a patent for his incandescent light. 1900 Georgia Neese Clark Gray, the first woman Treasurer of the United States, was born. 1967 Edward Higgins White II, Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire broke out inside the Apollo space capsule during a launch pad test at the Kennedy Space Center. |
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