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 300^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 14, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,358,720 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.

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 113 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 4,693 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 27 Historical Events

• 1795 –
  The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1838 –
  Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
• 1936 –
  Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
• 1948 –
  Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
• 1961 –
  NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• 1962 –
  A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
• 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.
• 1995 –
  Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
• 1997 –
  October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15.

Who were born on October 27?

• 1877 –
  George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1904 –
  Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
• 1920 –
  Nanette Fabray, American actress
• 1929 –
  Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
• 1931 –
  Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
• 1932 –
  Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1932 –
  Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
• 1951 –
  Jayne Kennedy, American actress, model and sportscaster
• 1954 –
  Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
• 1956 –
  Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer

Who died on October 27?

• 1449 –
  Ulugh Beg, Persian ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
• 1553 –
  Miguel Servet aka Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (b. 1511)
• 1880 –
  Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek politician, twice Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
• 1947 –
  William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer (b. 1872)
• 1962 –
  Rudolf Anderson, American pilot and officer (b. 1927)
• 1976 –
  Deryck Cooke, British musicologist (b. 1919)
• 1980 –
  Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
• 2003 –
  Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
• 2006 –
  Brad Will, American anarchist and journalist (b. 1970)
• 2009 –
  John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)