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
- 1644 –Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1682 –Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 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.
- 1904 –The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
- 1930 –ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty’s modified provisions go into effect immediately; further limiting the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories.
- 1954 –Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1961 –Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1995 –Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
Who were born on October 27?
- 1838 –John Davis Long, 32nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
- 1911 –Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
- 1922 –Michel Galabru, French actor
- 1940 –Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
- 1943 –Jerry Rook, American basketball player
- 1951 –K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
- 1972 –Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
- 1981 –Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
- 1983 –Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1987 –Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
Who died on October 27?
- 1553 –Miguel Servet aka Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (b. 1511)
- 1605 –Emperor Jellaladin Mahommed Akbar of Mughal (b. 1542)
- 1949 –Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
- 1974 –C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938)
- 1980 –Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
- 1990 –Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
- 2004 –Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
- 2007 –Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
- 2009 –John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
- 2011 –James Hillman, founder of Archetypal Psychology (b. 1926)
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