Today is Sunday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2013. There are 338
days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 27,
1973, the Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris. 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 19