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