Today is Thursday, January 27, the 27th day of 2011. 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
1710 ― Czar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget
1880 ― Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1916 ― Communist party ``Spartacus Letters" first published in Berlin
1944 ― Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
1945 ― Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps (Poland)
1973 ― U.S. and Vietnam sign ceasefire, 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