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• Today is Sunday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2013. There are 338 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 27, 1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.
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• On this date:
• In 1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria.
• In 1880, Thomas Edison received a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.
• In 1888, the National Geographic Society was incorporated in Washington, D.C.
• In 1901, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi died in Milan, Italy, at age 87.
• 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.
• In 1943, some 50 bombers struck Wilhelmshaven in the first all-American air raid against Germany during World War II.
• In 1944, the Soviet Union announced the complete end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.
• In 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
• 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.
• 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.
• In 1977, the Vatican issued a declaration reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's ban on female priests.
• In 1984, singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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• Ten years ago: The Bush administration dismissed Iraq's response to U.N. disarmament demands as inadequate. Meanwhile, chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix

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