Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2017

Today is Friday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2017. There are 338 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1880: Thomas Edison of Ohio receives a patent for his electric incandescent lamp.

1945: During World War II, Soviet troops liberate the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.

1951: An era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert begins as an Air Force plane drops a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flat.

1967: Astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee die in a flash fire during a test aboard their Apollo spacecraft.

1984: Singer Michael Jackson suffers serious burns to his scalp when pyrotechnics sets his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial.

1998: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, on NBC’s “Today” show, charges the sexual-misconduct allegations against her husband, President Bill Clinton, are the work of a “vast right-wing conspiracy.”

2016: The Ferguson, Mo., Police Department agrees to overhaul its policies, training and practices as part of a sweeping deal with the Justice Department after the 2014 fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

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1992: Police arrest Thomas Rudge, former Fowler fire chief, in the shooting death of Robert Sawtelle of Cortland and the wounding of Rudge’s estranged wife, Shirley Rudge, 44, of Cortland.

Gov. George Voinovich is committed to moving ahead with work on the Hubbard Expressway and construction of a state office building in downtown Youngstown.

Liberty Township police arrest a carry-out store owner on a charge of underage sales of alcohol and two teenagers on a charge of purchasing alcohol illegally as part of a crackdown on underage drinking.

1977: Trumbull County Commissioner Lyle Williams calls on Gov. James Rhodes and the Ohio Legislature to enact measures that would allow drilling for natural gas on state game lands.

The General Motors Assembly Division delays reopening its passenger-car plant at Lordstown for an additional week because of an oversupply of compact cars. Some 2,100 employees will be affected.

The City Council approves funding for crossing guards through the end of the school year, but hopes to get the Youngstown Board of Education to share the cost of $12,000 per month.

1967: U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan announces a $628,047 grant to train 260 people at the Mahoning Valley Vocational School at the Youngstown Air Force Reserve Base.

Laverne Fore, 22, is killed in an explosion while working on a gas furnace at a house owned by his father on Emerson Avenue in Farrell, Pa.

Two interns at Youngstown Osteopathic Hospital are among 41 doctors licensed to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery by the Ohio State Medical Board. They are Dr. John Koren of Struthers and Dr. Larry Smith of Youngstown.

Automatic Sprinkler Corp. of America acquires Davis Emergency Equipment of Newark, N.J., which has annual sales of $3 million. It is the fifth recent acquisition by the Youngstown company.

1942: Mahoning County municipalities and subdivisions are taking steps to pool all firefighting equipment in case of an emergency.

Three Youngstown girls, Winifred McAllister, Polly Hossell and Margaret Alcorn, all on The Vindicator staff, ask Congressman Michael J. Kirwan to seek legislation giving them the opportunity for military service.