LOOKING BACK

1901: opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.

1945: during World War II, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.

1967: astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.

1972: “Queen of Gospel” Mahalia Jackson, 60, died in Evergreen Park, Ill.