{"id":25038,"date":"2016-01-27T08:55:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25038"},"modified":"2016-01-27T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T14:41:07","slug":"today-in-history-146","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25038","title":{"rendered":"Today in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today in History: Wednesday, January\u00a0 27, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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AP Highlight in History:<\/span>
\nOn Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
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1756<\/td>\nComposer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1832<\/td>\nCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1880<\/td>\nThomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1885<\/td>\nBroadway composer Jerome Kern was born in New York City.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1944<\/td>\nThe Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1951<\/td>\nThe era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/td>\nAstronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1967<\/td>\nMore than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1973<\/td>\nThe Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>\nFirst lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, appearing on NBC’s “Today” show, said that allegations against her husband were the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nApple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad tablet computer during a presentation in San Francisco.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nJ.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” died in Cornish, N.H. at age 91.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Chief Justice John Roberts turns 61 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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James Cromwell<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nick Mason<\/td>\nRock musician (Pink Floyd)<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mikhail Baryshnikov<\/td>\nBallet dancer<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mimi Rogers<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keith Olbermann<\/td>\nTV host<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bridget Fonda<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mike Patton<\/td>\nRock singer (Faith No More)<\/td>\n48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actor Alan Cumming turns 51 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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