January 27


  • 2010 - Howard Zinn died today put history in context. Author of best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.
  • 1951 - The first nuclear bomb test occurred at the Nevada Test Site ; a one-kiloton bomb was dropped on Frenchman Flat.
  • 1832 - Lewis Carroll whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born today, wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass that highlighted the "mad hatter" from mercury exposure.
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