FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012

Today is Friday, January 27, the 27th day of 2012. There are 339th days left in the year.

1302 ― Dante becomes a Florentine political exile

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

1710 ― Czar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget

1880 ― Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

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

1948 ― First tape recorder sold

1967 ― Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed

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

1984 ― Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial

1996 ― Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day