27 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 January:

1. In 1992, Clinton Richard Doan, aged 35, died when he opened the fridge in his garage in Ketchum, Idaho. A Beer keg ruptured, shot upwards and hit him in the head.
2. In 1967 Francis Chichester, the round-the-world yachtsman, was knighted on the quay at Greenwich. The sword used had belonged to another seaman, Sir Francis Drake.
3. In 1958, Little Richard abandoned his music career and enrolled in the Oakwood Bible College in Huntsville, Alabama, inspired by a near-death experience. While on tour, his plane had caught fire over the Philippines. He prayed to God to let him live, and God obliged.
4. In 1926, John Logie Baird of Scotland demonstrated the first television set, the iconoscope, a mechanical scanning system, to members of the Royal Institution in London.
5. In 1967, a fire in the capsule of Apollo 1 killed 3 astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee. An electrical fault ignited pure Oxygen during a ground test at Cape Kennedy, burning all three astronauts to death.
6. In 1944, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
7. In 1984, Madonna made her first UK appearance when she appeared on Channel 4's The Tube performing Holiday. The show was broadcast live from the Hacienda Club in Manchester.
8. In 2011, a small explosion occurred in the basement of a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, near to where the World Economic Forum was taking place. No one was injured and a faulty boiler was found to be the cause.
9. In 1883, during a severe storm in the Bristol Channel the steamship Agnes Jack, of Liverpool, was wrecked on Port Eynon Point, South Wales, with the loss of all hands. Twelve hours later another steamer, the James Gray of Whitby, and her crew suffered the same fate on the notorious Tusker Rock near Porthcawl. However the incident which stirred the most emotion that night was the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat Wolverhampton attempting to rescue the crew of a Prussian barque wrecked on Mumbles Head. Four lifeboatmen were drowned. At the height of the storm Jessie Ace and her sister Margaret Wright, daughters of Ace the Lighthouse keeper, went down to the sound, tied their shawls together, entered the sea and pulled two of the lifeboat crew to safety. They became known as the Grace Darlings of Wales.
10. In 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the greatest composers in history, was born.

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