Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2006. There are 338 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2006. There are 338 days left in the year. On this date in 1756, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.
In 1880, Thomas Edison receives a patent for his electric incandescent lamp. In 1901, opera composer Giuseppe Verdi dies in Milan, Italy, at age 87. In 1944, the Soviet Union announces the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. In 1945, Soviet troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. In 1951, an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert begins as an Air Force plane drops a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats. In 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee die in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy, Fla.
January 27, 1981: Warren City Council votes to place an additional 0.5 percent income tax on the March ballot. The tax would produce $2.5 million a year and would allow the city to recall 33 police and firemen who have been laid off.
The state controlling board approves a $6 million, 25-year loan to the Tamarkin Co., which plans to build a food warehouse in Austintown Township.
The 16-member Mahoning County Blue Ribbon Committee recommends reinstatement of the county's 0.5 percent permissive sales tax. The piggyback tax was repealed by voters in November, resulting in a loss of $1.8 million in income to the county.
January 27, 1966: Mayor Anthony B. Flask urges City Council to approval purchase of the Tod Hotel, the first step in the city's urban renewal project.
An ordinance to proceed with new street lighting on six downtown Youngstown streets is approved by City Council. The cost is estimated at $34,000.
The Vindicator begins using the latest in national and international photo reproduction, the Associated Press Automatic Wirephoto machine. Just 20 seconds after the AP completes transmission of a news picture over its network, a glossy print is produced in the Vindicator wireroom.
January 27, 1956: The Youngstown City Park and Recreation Commission names Edward E. Finamore, a city public school teacher, to the job of park superintendent. The job pays $7,200, plus a $1,080 car allowance.
Roy Campanella, who thought his baseball career was over during the 1954 season after he broke a bone in his left hand, will be the highest paid player on the Brooklyn Dodgers roster in the 1956 season at $42,500 a year.
Hundreds of volunteers go door-to-door in Youngstown in the Mothers March on Polio, collecting $23,431.
January 27, 1931: An unoccupied house in Lowellville is blown to bits and seven nearby buildings, including Holy Rosary Church, are damaged in a terrific early morning explosion. It was the sixth bombing outrage in a year; a combination of gasoline and dynamite was used.
The General Fireproofing Co. earned a net profit of $752,517, or $2.30 a share, in 1930, just three cents a share less than in 1929 and four cents less than 1928.