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FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad during an Apple event in San Francisco. Apple has become the world’s first company to be valued at $1 trillion, the financial fruit of tasteful technology that has redefined society since two mavericks named Steve started the company 42 years ago. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) ORG XMIT: NYDK416 (Paul Sakuma)
FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad during an Apple event in San Francisco. Apple has become the world’s first company to be valued at $1 trillion, the financial fruit of tasteful technology that has redefined society since two mavericks named Steve started the company 42 years ago. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) ORG XMIT: NYDK416 (Paul Sakuma)
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Apollo I disaster

On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.

Patent for light bulb

In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

iPad debuts

In 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco.

War ends in Vietnam

In 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

Germans defeated in Leningrad

In 1944, during World War II, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

COVID-19 in China

In 2020, China confirmed more than 2,700 cases of the new coronavirus with more than 80 deaths in that country; authorities postponed the end of the Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home. U.S. health officials said they believed the risk to Americans remained low and that they had no evidence that the new virus was spreading in the United States.