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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2016. There are 339 days left in the year.

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Today's Highlight in History:

On Jan. 27, 1945, during World War II, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.

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In 1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.

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In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

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In 1901, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.

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In 1913, the musical play "The Isle O' Dreams" opened in New York; it featured the song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" by Ernest R. Ball, Chauncey Olcott and George Graff Jr.

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In 1944, during World War II, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

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

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In 1965, "Up the Down Staircase," Bel Kaufman's novel about a young, idealistic teacher at a New York inner-city school, was published by Prentice-Hall.

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In 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. More than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.

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In 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed i

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In 1977, the Vatican issued a declaration reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's ban on female priests.