Steve Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the new iPad during an event in San Francisco on Jan. 27, 2010.
IRAN U.S. HOSTAGE RELEASE
The caravan of buses carrying the former hostages and their relatives makes its way through the crowd on hand to greet them on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, Jan. 27, 1981. The 52 Americans were held hostage in Iran for 444 days after their capture at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. (AP Photo)
Atom U.S. Explosion; Testing 1952
A gigantic pillar of smoke with the familiar mushroom top climbs above Yucca flat during nuclear detonation in Las Vegas, NV., on April 22, 1952. Surmounting the mushroom cloud is an ice cap just beginning to form. This picture was made from Mt. Charleston about 55 miles away. (AP Photo)
New York Marilyn Monroe
American film actress Marilyn Monroe with photographer Milton H. Greene, in his studio in New York, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1955. The couple became friends when he was photographing her for a magazine. (AP Photo)
Poland Holocaust Commemoration
A woman lights a candle on the rail tracks leading to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, Friday, Jan. 27, 1995 during the commemoration of the Soviet liberation of this camp 50 years ago. 1.5 million people were killed in this camp during Nazi rule. On January 27, 1945 the Soviets found only 5,200 starving and tortured prisoners alive, some barely able to move, others crumple in the snow. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Arzt)
APOLLO 1 FIRE
The charred interior of the Apollo I spacecraft shown after the flash fire that killed astronauts Ed White, Roger Chaffee, and Virgil Grissom, January 27, 1967. (AP Photo)
Paris Yves Saint Laurent
Paris fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent with his models in their cabin at the end of the presentation of his Spring-Summer collection, in Paris, France, on Jan. 27, 1969. (AP Photo)
Musical Oddities EX42
Lalo Schifrin, Argentine-born composer, rehearses his electronic music-making monster called the Electronic EX-42 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta's direction for the world premiere of his "Pulsations", Jan. 27, 1971. The contrivance is part of an electronic musical explosion with widespread implications for producers and musicians. (AP Photo/George Brich)
WWII Africa
These French airplane engines, initially intended for the defense of North Africa against United Nations attack remained undamaged after Allies’ capture of base and are now being used against the Axis, Jan. 27, 1943. Bullet holes pock mark the walls of the Hangar. (AP Photo)
Vietnam War Paris Peace
The four delegations sit at the table during the first signing ceremony of the agreement to end the Vietnam War at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, Jan. 27, 1973. Clockwise, from foreground, delegations of the Unites States, the Provisonal Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. (AP Photo)
Bowie
British rock singer David Bowie is photographed at a news conference to announce the signing of a multi-million dollar contract with EMI-America in Manhattan, New York City, on Jan. 27, 1983. (AP Photo)
Shimon Peres
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres stands next to the Jewish memorial the English inscription appears, Monday, January 27, 1986, at the former Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. 50,000 people had died before the British Army liberated the camp on April 15, 1945. Peres spends a three day visit to West Germany. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
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Gus Grisson,Edward H. White II, Roger B. Chaffee
FILE - This undated file photo provided by NASA shows the Apollo 1 crew at an undisclosed location. From left: astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee. All three perished after a fire broke out inside the Apollo 1 module during a launch rehearsal on Jan. 27, 1967, at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
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