Today is Wednesday, January 27, 2021 Today in Crime History Today in Disaster History 1967 - At Cape Kennedy, FL, a fire aboard the space capsule Apollo 1 on the ground killed astronauts Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger Chaffee. 2002 - In Lagos, Nigeria, more than 1,000 people were killed in a series of explosions at a military depot and the stampede that followed. Today in Death History Tomorrow in Crime History. Tomorrow in Disaster History.