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