27/01/10

The trial of Guy Fawkes and other Gunpowder Plot conspirators began in 1606.  Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were killed when a fire broke out on board Apollo I during testing.  The Paris Peace Accord ended the Viet Nam War in 1973.

Born today:  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), the pride of Denison, Iowa, Donna Reed (1921-1986), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Alan Cumming (1965).

It is Holocaust Remembrance Day.