What happened on October 27? There are more than 279 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 27
October 27 is the 301st day of the year 2024. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 43rd week of the year 2024.
On this day in Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 sunrise will occur at 07:22 AM and sunset will occur at 06:13 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 94 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
Is your birthday coming up in two days? Are you not curious to find out who is sharing your special day? Discover all the April 21 famous birthdays. There are fun facts about that day that you must know. (Sponsored link)
Historical Events For October 27
- 312Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
- 710Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 939Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
- 1275Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1524Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1553Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1644Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1682Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1795The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
- 1806The French Army enters Berlin.
- 1810United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 1827Bellini’s third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
- 1838Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
- 1870Marshal 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.
- 1904The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- 1914World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
- 1916Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
- 1922A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country’s annexation to the South African Union.
- 1924The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1930ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty’s modified provisions go into effect immediately; further limiting the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories.
- 1936Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
- 1944World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1948Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
- 1953British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1954Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1958Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
- 1961NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 1962A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1962Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- 1964Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as “A Time for Choosing”.
- 1967Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
- 1971The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1981The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1986The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
- 1988Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 1991Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States “Don't ask, don't tell” military policy.
- 1994Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 1994The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
- 1995Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
- 1995Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 1997October 27, 1997 mini-crash: 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.
- 1999Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.
- 2004Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.
- 2005Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
- 2005The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
- 2011The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is likely to be Japanese.
Who Were Born On October 27?
- 1156Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1401Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
- 1728James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
- 1744Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
- 1760August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
- 1766Nancy Storace, the first soprano to sing Susanna in Mozart’s opera Le nozze di Figaro (d. 1817)
- 1782Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
- 1806Juan Seguín, Tejano commander during Texas Revolution (d. 1890)
- 1811Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
- 1811Stevens Thomson Mason, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
- 1814Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
- 1838John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
- 1842Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
- 1844Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
- 1854Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys’ Brigade (d. 1914)
- 1858Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 33rd Governor of New York, 25th Vice President of the United States, 26th President of the United States, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
- 1865Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
- 1869Viola Allen, actress (d. 1948)
- 1873Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
- 1877George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1885Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
- 1894Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
- 1896Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
- 1904Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
- 1906Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
- 1906Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010)
- 1908Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
- 1910Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
- 1911Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
- 1913Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
- 1914Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1915Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
- 1917Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
- 1917Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
- 1918Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1920K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
- 1920Nanette Fabray, American actress
- 1921Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
- 1922Michel Galabru, French actor
- 1922Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- 1922Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
- 1923Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
- 1924Ruby Dee, American actress
- 1925Warren Christopher, American diplomat and 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1926H.R. Haldeman, American political aide and 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
- 1928Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
- 1929Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
- 1931Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
- 1932Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1932Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
- 1932Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1933Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
- 1934Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director
- 1935Frank Adonis, American actor
- 1937Lara Parker, American actress
- 1939John Cleese, British actor and writer
- 1940John Gotti, American crime boss (d. 2002)
- 1940Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
- 1941Dick Trickle, American auto racer
- 1942Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician
- 1942Lee Greenwood, American singer
- 1943Carmen Argenziano, American actor
- 1943Jerry Rook, American basketball player
- 1945John Kane, actor/writer
- 1945Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazil
- 1946Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1946Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
- 1949Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
- 1949Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
- 1950Fran Lebowitz, American writer
- 1950Július Šupler, Slovak ice-hockey coach
- 1951Éric Morena, French singer
- 1951Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
- 1951Jayne Kennedy, American actress, model and sportscaster
- 1951K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
- 1951Nancy Jacobs, American politician
- 1952Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher
- 1952Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
- 1952Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
- 1952Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer
- 1953Peter Firth, British actor
- 1953Robert Picardo, American actor
- 1954Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
- 1955Debra Bowen, American politician
- 1956Babis Tsertos, Greek singer and musician
- 1956Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
- 1956Veronica Hart, American porn actress
- 1957Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
- 1957Jeff East, American actor
- 1958Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
- 1958Lee Carter, American jurist
- 1958Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
- 1959Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
- 1960Tom Nieto, American baseball player
- 1963Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarist (Die Ärzte)
- 1963Marla Maples, American actress and model
- 1964Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
- 1966Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
- 1966Matt Drudge, American blogger
- 1967Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer
- 1967Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
- 1967Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
- 1967Steve Almond, American author
- 1968Vinny Samways, English footballer
- 1969Peter O'Meara, Irish actor
- 1970Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
- 1970Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby union player
- 1970Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
- 1971Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
- 1971Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
- 1971Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
- 1971Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
- 1972Brad Radke, American baseball player
- 1972Elissa, Lebanese singer
- 1972Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
- 1972Lee Clark, English footballer
- 1972Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
- 1972Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
- 1973Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher
- 1975Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby union player and coach
- 1976Wilson Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1977Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
- 1977Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1977Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
- 1978Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
- 1978Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist
- 1978Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
- 1980Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
- 1981Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
- 1981Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1981Salem Al Fakir, Swedish musician and singer
- 1981Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
- 1982Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
- 1982Patrick Fugit, American actor
- 1982Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
- 1983Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
- 1983Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1984Bam Doyne, American basketball player
- 1984Brady Quinn, American football player
- 1984Emilie Ullerup, Danish actress
- 1984Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
- 1984Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
- 1984Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
- 1986Jon Niese, American baseball player
- 1986Matty Pattison, English footballer
- 1987Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
- 1987Guillaume Franke, French-born German rugby player
- 1987Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
- 1987Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1987Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (birth date disputed)
- 1988Evan Turner, American basketball player
- 1990Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
- 1990Oktavianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
- 1994Eddie Alderson, American actor
- 1995Cooper Pillot, American actor
- 1997Eden Taylor-Draper, English actress
Who Died On October 27?
- 939King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
- 1271Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- 1312John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
- 1327Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
- 1331Abu al-Fida, Kurdish historian, geographer, and tribal leader (b. 1273)
- 1430Grand Duke Vytautas the Great of Lithuania (b. 1350)
- 1439Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
- 1449Ulugh Beg, Persian ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
- 1505Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
- 1553Miguel Servet aka Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (b. 1511)
- 1561Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
- 1573Laurentius Petri, Swedish religious figure (b. 1499)
- 1605Emperor Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar of Mughal (b. 1542)
- 1617Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
- 1670Vavasor Powell, Welsh religious figure (b. 1617)
- 1674Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
- 1675Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
- 1789John Cook, American farmer and politician (b. 1730)
- 1880Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek politician, twice Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
- 1917Arthur Rhys Davids, British pilot (b. 1897)
- 1927Joseph “Squizzy” Taylor, Australian organized crime figure (b. 1888)
- 1935E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
- 1942Helmuth Hubener, German anti-Nazi activist (b. 1925)
- 1947William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer (b. 1872)
- 1949Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
- 1949Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
- 1953Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- 1962Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
- 1962Rudolf Anderson, American pilot and officer (b. 1927)
- 1968Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
- 1974C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938)
- 1975Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
- 1976Deryck Cooke, British musicologist (b. 1919)
- 1977James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
- 1980John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1980Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
- 1980Steve Peregrin Took, British singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
- 1990Elliott Roosevelt, American author and advertising executive (b. 1910)
- 1990Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
- 1990Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
- 1990Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
- 1990Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
- 1991George Barker, British poet (b. 1913)
- 1992David Bohm, American-born British quantum physicist (b. 1917)
- 1996Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
- 1996Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1999Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
- 1999Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
- 2000Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
- 2001Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1925)
- 2002Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
- 2003Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
- 2003Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1949)
- 2004Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
- 2004Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2004Zdenko Runjić, Croatian composor (b. 1942)
- 2006Brad Will, American anarchist and journalist (b. 1970)
- 2006Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2006Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
- 2006Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
- 2006Reko Lundán, Finnish writer (b. 1969)
- 2007Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
- 2007Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2008Chris Bryant, British screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2008Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
- 2008Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (b. 1923)
- 2008Roy Stewart, Jamaican-born British actor and fitness industry figure (b. 1925)
- 2009August Coppola, American academic; father of Nicolas Cage (b. 1934)
- 2009David Shepherd, British cricket umpire (b. 1940)
- 2009John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2010Denise Borino, American actress (b. 1964)
- 2010James Wall, American actor and stage manager (b. 1917)
- 2010Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (b. 1950)
- 2011James Hillman, founder of Archetypal Psychology (b. 1926)
Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Try this! Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters MEIEDXO? Check your answers here: Unscramble words MEIEDXO. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)