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2018

Caroline Wozniacki defeated Simona Halep at the Australian Open to claim her first Grand Slam title.

2010

Steve Jobs, at an Apple press conference in San Francisco, announces the launch of the first iPad.

1984

Michael Jackson suffers burns while filming a Pepsi commercial.

Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers’ record streak of consecutive games with at least one point ends at 51. During that stretch, the hockey player scored 153 points.

1967

A fire destroys the Apollo 1 command module, killing astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee shortly before launch.

1961

Construction of the Montreal metro begins. Its cost is estimated at $300 million.

1956

Elvis Presley’s song “Heartbreak Hotel” is released; it is his first song to sell over one million copies.

1944

The Wehrmacht lifts the siege of Leningrad after 880 days and more than 2 million Soviet casualties.

1926

A Scottish inventor, John Baird, unveils the first image-transmitting machine, known as a television.

1918

“Tarzan of the Apes,” the first Tarzan film, premieres in New York.

1880

Thomas Edison invents the incandescent light bulb.

1721

The first postal service is launched between Quebec City and Montreal.

It happened on… January 27

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