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 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 14, 2016 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 410,424 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.
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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 93 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 1,406 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 27 Historical Events
- 1524 –Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1682 –Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1914 –World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
- 1962 –A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1981 –The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1986 –The British 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.
- 1992 –United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey 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.
- 1994 –Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 2005 –Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
- 2005 –The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
Who were born on October 27?
- 1744 –Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
- 1858 –Theodore Roosevelt, American politician, 33rd Governor of New York, 25th Vice President of the United States, 26th President of the United States, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
- 1939 –John Cleese, British actor and writer
- 1953 –Robert Picardo, American actor
- 1956 –Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
- 1958 –Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
- 1967 –Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
- 1971 –Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
- 1973 –Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher
- 1988 –Evan Turner, American basketball player
Who died on October 27?
- 1573 –Laurentius Petri, Swedish religious figure (b. 1499)
- 1674 –Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
- 1935 –E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
- 1968 –Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
- 1992 –David Bohm, American-born British quantum physicist (b. 1917)
- 1996 –Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
- 2001 –Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1925)
- 2004 –Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2007 –Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2008 –Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
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