October 27st Events |
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| October 27th, 2005 (October 27 2005) | Event | Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. | |
| October 27th, 2004 (October 27 2004) | Event | The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years. | |
| October 27th, 2002 (October 27 2002) | Event | 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. | |
| October 27th, 1999 (October 27 1999) | Event | Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members. | Vazgen Sargsyan Quotes |
| October 27th, 1997 (October 27 1997) | Event | October 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. 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. | |
| October 27th, 1995 (October 27 1995) | Event | Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. | |
| October 27th, 1995 (October 27 1995) | Event | Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is condemned in absentia for corruption. | |
| October 27th, 1992 (October 27 1992) | Event | United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates 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. | Allen Tate Quotes |
| October 27th, 1991 (October 27 1991) | Event | Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union. | |
| October 27th, 1990 (October 27 1990) | Event | Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic s first president. | |
| October 27th, 1986 (October 27 1986) | Event | 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. | |
| October 27th, 1981 (October 27 1981) | Event | The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. | |
| October 27th, 1973 (October 27 1973) | Event | The Canon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado. | |
| October 27th, 1971 (October 27 1971) | Event | Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. | |
| October 27th, 1964 (October 27 1964) | Event | Ronald 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". | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| October 27th, 1962 (October 27 1962) | Event | Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States 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. | |
| October 27th, 1962 (October 27 1962) | Event | The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry s most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances. | |
| October 27th, 1961 (October 27 1961) | Event | NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. | |
| October 27th, 1958 (October 27 1958) | Event | Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d etat by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier. | Martial Quotes |
| October 27th, 1954 (October 27 1954) | Event | Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. | |
| October 27th, 1953 (October 27 1953) | Event | British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. | |
| October 27th, 1948 (October 27 1948) | Event | Leopold Sedar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS). | |
| October 27th, 1936 (October 27 1936) | Event | Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne. | |
| October 27th, 1924 (October 27 1924) | Event | The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. | |
| October 27th, 1922 (October 27 1922) | Event | A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country s annexation to the South African Union. | |
| October 27th, 1916 (October 27 1916) | Event | 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. | |
| October 27th, 1904 (October 27 1904) | Event | The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world. | |
| October 27th, 1870 (October 27 1870) | Event | Marshal Francois 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. | |
| October 27th, 1838 (October 27 1838) | Event | Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated. | |
| October 27th, 1810 (October 27 1810) | Event | United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. | |
| October 27th, 1806 (October 27 1806) | Event | The French Army enters in Berlin. | |
| October 27th, 1795 (October 27 1795) | Event | The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. | |
| October 27th, 1682 (October 27 1682) | Event | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded. | |
| October 27th, 1644 (October 27 1644) | Event | Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. | |
| October 27th, 1553 (October 27 1553) | Event | Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. | |
| October 27th, 1524 (October 27 1524) | Event | Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia. | |
| October 27th, 1275 (October 27 1275) | Event | Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. | |
| October 27th, 0939 (October 27 0939) | Event | Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England. | |
| October 27th, 0710 (October 27 0710) | Event | Saracen invasion of Sardinia. | |
| October 27th, 0312 (October 27 0312) | Event | Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. | |
