On this day: January 27

January 27

Grissom, White, and Chaffee of Apollo 1

• 1142 – Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government.
• 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated more than 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
• 1967 – The Apollo 1 fire killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger Chaffee (pictured) at Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34, and destroyed the spacecraft.
• 1996 – Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.
• 2011 – Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sana'a to demand governmental changes.

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