October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining.

Events

600-1899

• 625 - Honorius I becomes Pope.
• 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
• 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio 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.

1900-1999

• 1904 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world.
• 1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers ).
• 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 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.
• 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ends peacefully.
• 1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth in Fremont County, Colorado.
• 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 ran aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• 1986 - The London Stock Exchange is deregulated and computerisation is introduced for the first time.
• 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
• 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1993 - Fires in five counties in southern California destroy more than 500 homes and cause an estimate 1 billion USD of damage within a week.
• 1995 - Latvia applies for membership of the European Union.
• 1997 - The California Medical Board announces its investigation of Hollywood plastic surgeon Steve Hoefflin , who is accused of "fondling, disrobing, photographing and ridiculing his anaesthesized patients" by former employees. The probe is eventually dropped after Hoefflin pays his former employees an undisclosed sum.
• 1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
• 1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vasgen Sarkissian and 6 other members killed in an attack on the Armenian parliament.

2000-2099

• 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
• 2002 - Running back Emmitt Smith became the current leader in career rushing yards in the National Football League, breaking the record then held by Walter Payton.
• 2004 - 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 again 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. He had stabbed a family friend.

Births

1400-1899

• 1466 (assumed) - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philosopher
• 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer. (d. 1779)
• 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter and one of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy (d. 1819)
• 1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
• 1811 - Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)
• 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan.
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)
• 1877 - George Thompson, Northamptonshire all-rounder and mainstay in the county's earliest first-class days (d. 1943)

1900-1999

• 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet
• 1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress
• 1931 - Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
• 1932 - Sylvia Plath, poet
• 1939 - John Cleese, British actor, writer, and Monty Python member
• 1940 - John Gotti, New York mafia boss
• 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, writer
• 1958 - Dave Harold Sr. ,service tech c&w investments
• 1958 - Simon Le Bon, musician, Duran Duran
• 1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, musician, Cradle of Filth
• 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, documentary filmmaker

Deaths

900-1899

• 939 - King Athelstan I of England
• 1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
• 1439 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer.
• 1505 - Ivan III of Russia

1900-1999

• 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French world champion boxer (b. 1916)
• 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
• 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician
• 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
• 1975 - Rex Stout, novelist
• 1977 - James M. Cain, novelist
• 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, Singer/Song writer
• 1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, author, advertising executive, son of Franklin Roosevelt,
• 1990 - Xavier Cugat, musician
• 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, actor

2000-2099

• 2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone
• 2003 - Rod Roddy, television announcer

Holidays

• Feast day of Saint Frumentius, who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia
• Independence Day in Turkmenistan (1991)
• Independence Day in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979)

Recorded this date

• 1903 "Silver Threads Among The Gold " (w. Eben E. Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks )
  - Richard Jose
  
• 1911 "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" (w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt)
  - Christie MacDonald & Lyric Quartette with O/Magee
  
• 1911 "There's A Girl In Havana" (w. Irving Berlin & E. Ray Goetz m. A. Baldwin Sloane )
  - Beulah Young & Henry Burr
  
• 1913 "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Lillian Davis
  
• 1913 "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" (w.m Harry Gifford , Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor)
  - Harry Macdonough & Marguerite Dunlap
  
• 1916 "A Broken Doll" (w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris )
  - Nora Bayes with O/Rosario Bourdon
  
• 1916 "When John McCormack Sings A Song" (w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Nora Bayes
  
• 1921 "When Buddha Smiles" (w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown)
  - Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
  
• 1922 "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" (w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball )
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1922 "Rolling Down To Rio" (w. Rudyard Kipling m. German)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1922 "Drake Goes West" (Sanderson)
  - Peter Dawson
  
• 1925 "Sweet Man" (w. Roy Turk m. Maceo Pinkard )
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1925 "Sleepy Time Gal" (w. Joseph R. Alden & Raymond B. Egan m. Ange Lorenzo & Richard A. Whiting)
  - Lewis James
  
• 1925 "Just A Cottage Small (By A Waterfall)" (w. B. G. De Sylva m. James F. Hanley )
  - John McCormack
  
• 1926 "Because I Love You" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
  - Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1927 "Up In The Clouds" (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby)
  - Franklyn Baur with Harry Archer & his Orchestra
  
• 1930 "Gorgonzola"
  - Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1930 "I'm Twenty-One Today" (Kendal)
  - Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
  
• 1930 "Pick Up Tha' Musket"
  - Stanley Holloway with piano Wolseley Charles
  
• 1930 "They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree" (w.m. Edward Eliscu , Billy Hill & Willie Raskin)
  - Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
  
• 1930 "The Face On The Bar-Room Floor" (w. Maurice De Witt m. Leonard Hope )
  - Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
  
• 1930 "There's Something About An Old-Fashioned Girl" (w.m. Lew Brown, B. G. De Sylva & Ray Henderson)
  - Pat O'Malley w. chorus with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1930 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
  - Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
  
• 1932 "Let's Call It A Day" (w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson)
  - Frank Marvin with Arden-Ohman Orchestra
  
• 1932 "Please" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger)
  - Rudy Vallee
  
• 1932 "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney )
  - Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees
  
• 1933 "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" (w.m. Harry Woods & Claude Hurlburt )
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
  
• 1933 "Thanks" (w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston)
  - Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
  
• 1938 "Do You Wanna Jump Children?" (w.m. James Van Heusen, Willie Bryant & Victor Selsman)
  - Cab Calloway
  
• 1939 "I'll Remember" (Rich, Connelly)
  - Cyril Grantham with Geraldo & his Orchestra
  
• 1939 "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Evelyn Dove with Billy Cotton & his Band
  
• 1941 "I Hate You, Darling" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Buddy Clark
  
• 1941 "Ev'rything I Love" (w.m. Cole Porter)
  - Buddy Clark
  
• 1941 "Ev'ry Time" (w.m. Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin)
  - Buddy Clark
  
• 1943 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
  - Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  
• 1943 "When They Ask About You" (w.m. Sam H. Stept)
  - Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
  
• 1944 "Right As The Rain" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen)
  - Celeste Holm & David Brooks
  
• 1947 "Bluegrass Breakdown"
  - Bill Monroe
  
• 1950 "It Is No Secret" (w.m. Stuart Hamblen )
  - Ink Spots
  
• 1950 "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (w.m. Al Hoffman , Walter Kent & Mann Curtis)
  - Frankie Laine w. Conlon Singers with O/Harry Geller
  
• 1951 "Charmaine" (w.m. Erno Rapee & Lew Pollack )
  - Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra
  
• 1953 "Not Since Nineveh" (w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest)
  - Danny Kaye with O/Sonny Burke
  
• 1958 "Green Christmas" (Stan Freberg)
  - Stan Freberg featuring Daws Butler as Cratchet with Marvin Miller and Wil Wright & Jud Conlon chorale with Billy May & his Music
  
• 1959 "Young Emotions" (w. Mack David m. Jerry Livingston )
  - Ricky Nelson
  
• 1960 "Spanish Harlem" (w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
  - Ben E. King
  
• 1960 "Stand By Me" (King, Leiber, Stoller)
  - Ben E. King with O/Stan Applebaum
  

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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