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TODAY IN HISTORY

Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2010.
There are 338 days left in the year.

• 1756: Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.

• 1880: Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

• 1901: Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.

• 1943: Some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.

• 1945: Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.

• 1951: An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat.

• 1967: Astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.

• 1973: The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

• 1981: President Ronald Reagan greeted the 52 former American hostages released by Iran at the White House.