The Bowling Alleys at Fort McClellan, Alabama, are well patronized by members of WAC Det #2 in their off-duty hours. M/Sgt Helen Starr…is ready to send a ball on its way down the alley, 01/27/1944
On January 27, 1776, former bookseller Henry Knox arrived at George Washington’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with 60 tons of captured artillery to use in the liberation of Boston from British forces. Knox had masterminded the removal and transportation of the guns from Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York, through 300 miles of sparsely populated terrain in the dead of winter.
Hauling guns by ox teams from Fort Ticonderoga for the siege of Boston, 1775
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
On January 27th each year, we remember the victims of the Nazi era. The theme of this year’s remembrance day is Children and the Holocaust.
What a Bright Idea!
On January 27, 1880, Thomas Edison received the historic patent embodying the principles of his improved incandescent lamp that paved the way for the universal domestic use of electric light.
