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 301st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 14, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,552 hours 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 ‘trihectahenagon’ day.
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 94 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 4,328 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 27 Historical Events
- 710 –Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 1553 –Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 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.
- 1953 –British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1954 –Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1962 –Major 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.
- 1967 –Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
- 1994 –Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 1994 –The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
- 2004 –Major 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.
Who were born on October 27?
- 1869 –Viola Allen, actress (d. 1948)
- 1877 –George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
- 1921 –Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
- 1940 –John Gotti, American crime boss (d. 2002)
- 1942 –Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish politician
- 1960 –Tom Nieto, American baseball player
- 1975 –Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby union player and coach
- 1984 –Bam Doyne, American basketball player
- 1987 –Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
- 1988 –Evan Turner, American basketball player
Who died on October 27?
- 1439 –Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
- 1927 –Joseph “Squizzy” Taylor, Australian organized crime figure (b. 1888)
- 1996 –Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
- 2001 –Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1925)
- 2006 –Brad Will, American anarchist and journalist (b. 1970)
- 2006 –Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
- 2006 –Reko Lundán, Finnish writer (b. 1969)
- 2007 –Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2008 –Ray Ellis, American record producer and arranger (b. 1923)
- 2011 –James Hillman, founder of Archetypal Psychology (b. 1926)
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