WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010

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

1302 _ Dante becomes a Florentine political exile

1593 _ Vatican opens seven- year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno

1880 _ Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

1918 _ ``Tarzan of the Apes," first Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater

1924 _ Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square

1941 _ Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

1944 _ Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed

1951 _ U.S. begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site

1973 _ U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft

1996 _ Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day