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, 25,151,040 minutes 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
- 710 –Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 1644 –Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1682 –Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1806 –The French Army enters Berlin.
- 1827 –Bellini’s third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
- 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.
- 1916 –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.
- 1944 –World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1988 –Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 1994 –Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
Who were born on October 27?
- 1156 –Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1728 –James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
- 1865 –Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
- 1928 –Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
- 1932 –Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
- 1937 –Lara Parker, American actress
- 1946 –Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1950 –Július Šupler, Slovak ice-hockey coach
- 1951 –K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
- 1967 –Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer
Who died on October 27?
- 1962 –Rudolf Anderson, American pilot and officer (b. 1927)
- 1980 –John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1980 –Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
- 1990 –Elliott Roosevelt, American author and advertising executive (b. 1910)
- 1999 –Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
- 2003 –Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1949)
- 2004 –Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
- 2006 –Reko Lundán, Finnish writer (b. 1969)
- 2007 –Satyen Kappu, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2009 –August Coppola, American academic; father of Nicolas Cage (b. 1934)
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