Notable Historical Events on October 27th
October 27th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
312 |
Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. |
625 |
Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
710 |
Saracen invasion of Sardinia. |
939 |
Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England. |
1275 |
Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. |
1523 |
English troops occupy Montalidier France |
1553 |
Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. |
1605 |
Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk |
1627 |
English assault on French Il de Ré |
1644 |
Second Battle of Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies |
1651 |
English troops occupy Limerick, Ireland |
1676 |
Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw |
1682 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. |
1688 |
King James II dismissses premier Robert Spencer |
1702 |
British troops plunder St Augustine, Florida |
1775 |
US Navy forms |
1780 |
Samuel Williams and the first U.S. astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun observes the event at Penobscot Bay |
1787 |
Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers |
1795 |
Treaty of San Lorenzo provides free navigation of Mississippi |
1806 |
The French Army enters in Berlin. |
1810 |
US annexes West Florida from Spain |
1830 |
Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution) |
1838 |
Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. |
1863 |
Dutch railway to Harlingen opens |
1864 |
Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad) |
1864 |
2nd Battle of Fair Oaks, Va near Richmond |
1864 |
Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks |
1864 |
Siege of Petersburg, VA |
1867 |
Garibaldi marches on Rome |
1871 |
Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption |
1884 |
Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC |
1886 |
Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain" performed in Russia |
1893 |
Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC |
1896 |
1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!) |
1901 |
1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes" |
1904 |
IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Bkln bridge-145 & Bdwy) |
1907 |
The first trial of the so called Eulenberg Affair, which will rock the highest circles of Germany, ends |
1913 |
Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country |
1914 |
British battleship Audacious sunk by mine |
1915 |
Andrew Fisher is replaced as Labour Prime Minister by William 'Billy' Hughes, who will advocate a more active role for Australians in the war |
1916 |
1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety) |
1916 |
Battle 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. |
1919 |
Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim |
1919 |
US Congress sign Volstead Act |
1920 |
League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva |
1920 |
Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins |
1922 |
1st commemoration of Navy Day |
1922 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws |
1924 |
The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. |
1925 |
Water skis patented by Fred Waller |
1927 |
Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen |
1931 |
Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2½" |
1933 |
Valentin Boreyko, Russia, rower (Oly Gld 1960), (d. 2012) |
1935 |
SDAP & NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands |
1938 |
DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon" |
1941 |
Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan |
1941 |
Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade |
1942 |
5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance |
1942 |
US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz |
1944 |
Hertogenbosch & Tilburg freed from nazi occupation |
1944 |
Tito reaches free Belgrade |
1945 |
"Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances |
1945 |
1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine) |
1946 |
Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%) |
1947 |
"You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio |
1947 |
WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1948 |
Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege" premieres in Paris |
1948 |
Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev |
1948 |
Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS). |
1950 |
Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St Joan" premieres |
1952 |
"My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 perfs |
1954 |
Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem |
1954 |
WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland", premieres on ABC |
1954 |
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. |
1955 |
Argentine peso devalued |
1955 |
Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows & takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo |
1957 |
Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey |
1957 |
WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1958 |
Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan |
1958 |
WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico |
1960 |
AL admits LA & Washington to the league |
1960 |
Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me" |
1961 |
1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test |
1961 |
American Basketball League starts play |
1961 |
Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR |
1962 |
"Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs |
1962 |
Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1962 |
The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances. |
1963 |
Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba |
1963 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
1964 |
"Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 perfs |
1964 |
Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians |
1965 |
WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1966 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1966 |
UN deprives South Africa of Namibia |
1966 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1967 |
4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records |
1967 |
Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada |
1967 |
NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen |
1968 |
19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico |
1968 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational |
1969 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen |
1969 |
Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders |
1969 |
St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain |
1970 |
"Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs |
1971 |
Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire |
1971 |
Gerard Newe becomes the first Catholic to serve in any Northern Ireland government since 1920; Newe was appointed to try to improve community relations |
1972 |
Golden Gate National Recreation Area created |
1972 |
OPEC approves plan providing for 25 percent government ownership of all Western oil interests operating within Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia |
1973 |
1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2 |
1973 |
Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6 |
1974 |
Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24) |
1975 |
Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen |
1977 |
Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped |
1977 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-200 |
1978 |
Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize |
1978 |
President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill |
1979 |
Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds |
1979 |
St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Natl Day) |
1979 |
Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide |
1980 |
Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen |
1980 |
Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph |
1981 |
Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia |
1981 |
The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. |
1982 |
China announces its population at 1 billion people plus |
1982 |
IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics |
1984 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1984 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1984 |
Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing |
1985 |
15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34 |
1985 |
16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34 |
1985 |
Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions |
1985 |
Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time |
1985 |
Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die |
1985 |
KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series |
1985 |
Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's |
1986 |
NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series |
1986 |
Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head" |
1986 |
The United Kingdom 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. |
1987 |
Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections |
1987 |
Peter Shaffer's "Lettice & Lovage," premieres in London |
1987 |
South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution |
1988 |
"ET" released to home video (14 million presold) |
1988 |
Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra |
1990 |
"Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden NYC after 30 perfs |
1990 |
Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled |
1990 |
Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president. |
1991 |
"Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 perfs |
1991 |
"Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances |
1991 |
John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic |
1991 |
Minnesota Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7 |
1992 |
Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies |
1992 |
Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber |
1992 |
Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien |
1992 |
Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink |
1993 |
Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas |
1995 |
Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed |
1995 |
Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto |
1995 |
Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. |
1996 |
US beats Japan, 21½-14½, at Nichirei International Golf Tournament |
1997 |
Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161 |
1997 |
Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million |
1997 |
Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference" |
1997 |
US releases a redesigned $50 bill |
1999 |
Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members. |
2002 |
Anaheim Angels defeat San Francisco Giants 4-3 in baseball's World Series championship, MVP: Troy Glaus, Anaheim |
2002 |
The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes. |
2004 |
The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years |
2005 |
Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. |
2008 |
The banking group BNP Paribas states that Australia is in a risky position with regards to the global financial crisis as foreign liabilities accounted for 60% of the nation's GDP |
2011 |
The 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. |
2012 |
46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs |
2012 |
Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts |
2013 |
38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq |
2013 |
18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan |
2013 |
Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory |
2015 |
Kansas City Royals beat NY Mets in Game 1 of World Series, 5-4 in 14 innings. |
2015 |
Three Palestinians shot dead after knife attacks: Israeli army |
2015 |
Game 1 of World Series delayed after Fox broadcast loses power |
2016 |
More Republicans expect Clinton to win US election than Trump |
2016 |
Cubs start fast, beat Indians in Game 2 to even up World Series |
2017 |
Trump releases some JFK files, blocks others under pressure |
2017 |
Trump declares opioid crisis a national public health emergency |
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