'''October_27''' is the 300th day of the year (301st in Leap_years) in the Gregorian_Calendar, with 65 days remaining.
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== Events ==
* 625 - Honorius I becomes Pope.
* 939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
* 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael_Servetus is Burned_at_the_stake just outside Geneva.
* 1644 - Second_Battle_of_Newbury in the English_Civil_War.
* 1795 - The United_States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
* 1797 - Treaty_of_Campo_Formio is signed between France and Austria.
* 1810 - United_States annexes the former Spanish colony of West_Florida.
* 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn_Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state.
* 1870 - Marshal François_Achille_Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian_War.
* 1904 - First New_York_City_Subway line opens; the system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of the biggest in world.
* 1916 - Battle_of_Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte_Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
* 1946 - First commercially-sponsored Television_program airs (''Geographically Speaking'', sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
* 1948 - Léopold_Sédar_Senghor founds the Senegalese_Democratic_Bloc (BDS).
* 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New_York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette_Neveu and boxer Marcel_Cerdan.
* 1953 - British Nuclear_test ''Totem 2'' is detonated at Emu_Field, South_Australia.
* 1954 - Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United_States_Air_Force.
* 1958 - Iskander_Mirza, the first President_of_Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless Coup_d'état by General Ayub_Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of Martial_law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
* 1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn_I Rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
* 1962 - Major Rudolph_Anderson of the US Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban_Missile_Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2_Guideline Surface-to-air_missile.
* 1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type Meteorite strikes in Fremont_County,_Colorado.
* 1981 - The Soviet submarine U_137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
* 1990 - Supreme_Soviet of Kirghiz_SSR chooses Askar_Akayev as republic's first president.
* 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet_Union.
* 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European_Union.
* 1997 - Stock_markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New_York_Stock_Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early (see October_27,_1997_mini-crash).
* 1998 - Gerhard_Schröder becomes Chancellor_of_Germany for the first time.
* 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz_Inácio_Lula_da_Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
* 2004 - End of the Curse_of_the_Bambino: Major_League_Baseball's Boston_Red_Sox won Game 4 of the World_Series 3-0, sweeping the series in 4 games over the St._Louis_Cardinals on a night featuring a full Lunar_eclipse, becoming champions for the first time since 1918.
* 2004 - Matti_Nykänen, once a very successful Finnish ski-jumper, is found guilty of attempt of Manslaughter and sentenced to a two year and two month jail term for stabbing a family friend.
* 2005 - Iran launches its first satellite, Sina_1, into space.
* 2005 - Harriet_Miers withdraws her nomination to the US Supreme Court
* 2005 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers
== Births ==
*1156 - Count Raymond_VI_of_Toulouse (d. 1222)
*1401 - Catherine_of_Valois, queen of Henry_V_of_England (d. 1437)
*1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
*1728 - James_Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
*1744 - Mary_Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
*1760 - August_von_Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
*1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
*1811 - Isaac_Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
*1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
*1842 - Giovanni_Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
*1844 - Klas_Pontus_Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1916)
*1858 - Theodore_Roosevelt, 26th President_of_the_United_States, recipient of the Nobel_Peace_Prize (d. 1919)
*1873 - Emily_Post, etiquette author (d. 1960)
*1877 - George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
*1894 - Oliver_Leese, British general (d. 1978)
*1906 - Earle_Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
*1910 - Jack_Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
*1914 - Dylan_Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
*1917 - Oliver_Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
*1918 - Teresa_Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
*1920 - Nanette_Fabray, American actress
*1920 - K._R._Narayanan, President_of_India
*1922 - Poul_Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
*1923 - Roy_Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
*1924 - Ruby_Dee, American actress
*1925 - Albert_Medwin, American inventor
*1931 - Nawal_El_Saadawi, Egyptian writer
*1932 - Sylvia_Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
*1939 - John_Cleese, British actor and writer
*1940 - John_Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
*1946 - Carrie_Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
*1950 - Fran_Lebowitz, American writer
*1953 - Peter_Firth, British actor
*1957 - Jeff_East, American actor
*1958 - Simon_Le_Bon, English singer (Duran_Duran)
*1963 - Marla_Maples, American actress and model
*1967 - Scott_Weiland, American singer (Stone_Temple_Pilots and Velvet_Revolver)
*1970 - Adrian_Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle_of_Filth)
*1972 - Evan_Coyne_Maloney, American filmmaker
*1972 - Brad_Radke, baseball player
*1977 - Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
*1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
*1980 - Tanel_Padar, Estonian singer
*1980 - Jeku, electronic musician Jake Jensen
*1984 - Kelly_Osbourne, English television personality
== Deaths ==
*939 - King Athelstan_I_of_England
*1271 - Hugh_IV,_Duke_of_Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
*1312 - John_II,_Duke_of_Brabant (b. 1275)
*1327 - Elizabeth_de_Burgh, queen of Robert_I_of_Scotland
*1331 - Abu_al-Fida, Arab hitorian and geographer (b. 1273)
*1430 - Vytautas_the_Great, Grand Prince of Lithuania
*1439 - Albert_II_of_Germany, Holy_Roman_Emperor (b. 1397)
*1449 - Ulugh_Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
*1505 - Ivan_III_of_Russia (b. 1440)
*1553 - Michael_Servetus, Spanish theologian (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
*1561 - Lope_de_Aguirre, Spanish conquistador
*1573 - Laurentius_Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
*1617 - Ralph_Winwood, English politician
*1670 - Vavasor_Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
*1674 - Hallgrímur_Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
*1675 - Gilles_de_Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
*1789 - John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (b. 1730)
*1917 - Arthur_Rhys_Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
*1949 - Marcel_Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
*1949 - Ginette_Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
*1953 - Thomas_Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
*1962 - Enrico_Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
*1968 - Lise_Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
*1975 - Rex_Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
*1977 - James_M._Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
*1980 - Steve_Peregrin_Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
*1980 - John_Hasbrouck_van_Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
*1990 - Xavier_Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
*1990 - Elliott_Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
*1992 - David_Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
*1996 - Morey_Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
*1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
*2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
*2003 - Rod_Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
*2005 - Bob_Broeg, American sports writer (b. 1918)
== Holidays and observances ==
*R.C. saints - '''October 27th''' is the Feast_day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
** St. Abraham the Poor
** St. Abban of Murnevin
** St. Capitolina
** St. Desiderius
** St. Elesbaan
** St. Florentius
** St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia.
** St. Gaudiosus
** St. Namatius
** St. Odhran
** St. Vincent, Sabina, & Christeta
* Turkmenistan - Independence_Day (from USSR, 1991)
* Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines - Independence_Day (from Britain, 1979)
== External links ==
* BBC: On This Day
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