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1880 Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
1945 Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
1951 The era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began.
1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
1967 Astronauts Virgil I. ''Gus'' Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo I spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla
1977 Pres Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
2006 - Western Union delivers its last telegram
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