What are the important events that happened on October 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 27 is the 300th day of the year 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 14, 2017 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,509,062,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectagon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 115 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 1,771 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 27 Historical Events
- 1524 –Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1644 –Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1958 –Iskander 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.
- 1961 –Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
- 1967 –Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
- 1971 –The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973 –The Cañon 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.
- 1994 –The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
- 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.
Who were born on October 27?
- 1156 –Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1914 –Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
- 1932 –Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
- 1952 –Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer
- 1958 –Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
- 1967 –Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
- 1972 –Lee Clark, English footballer
- 1981 –Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
- 1984 –Bam Doyne, American basketball player
- 1986 –Jon Niese, American baseball player
Who died on October 27?
- 1617 –Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
- 1935 –E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
- 1977 –James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
- 2003 –Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
- 2003 –Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1949)
- 2004 –Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
- 2004 –Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2008 –Chris Bryant, British screenwriter (b. 1936)
- 2010 –James Wall, American actor and stage manager (b. 1917)
- 2011 –James Hillman, founder of Archetypal Psychology (b. 1926)
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