Today is Wednesday, January 27, the 27th day of 2010. There are 338 days left in the year.

On this date

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

In 1926, John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in London.

In 1967, US astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft at Cape Canaveral.

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

In 1991, Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre fled after rebels overran his palace and captured the capital, Mogadishu.

Thought for Today

"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow." — Gamaliel Bailey, American abolitionist (1807-1859).