MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2014

Today is Monday, January 27, the 27th day of 2014. There are 338 days left in the year.

1302 ― Dante becomes a Florentine political exile

1880 ― Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp

1916 ― Communist party “Spartacus Letters" first published in Berlin

1918 ― “Tarzan of the Apes," first Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater

1924 ― Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square

1945 ― Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

1973 ― U.S. and Vietnam sign ceasefire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft

1983 ― World’s longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaido

1990 ― Dissolution of Polish Communist Party

1996 ― Germany celebrates its first Holocaust Remembrance Day