October 27

From Academic Kids

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining.

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Events

625 - Honorius I becomes Pope.
1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio signed between France and Austria.
1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state.
1870 - Marshal Fran�ois 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 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world.
1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'�tat by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ends peacefully.
1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth in Fremont County, Colorado.
1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 ran aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1986 - The London Stock Exchange is deregulated and computerisation is introduced for the first time.
1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 - Fires in five counties in southern California destroy more than 500 homes and cause an estimate 1 billion USD of damage within a week.
1995 - Latvia applies for membership of the European Union.
1997 - The California Medical Board announces its investigation of Hollywood plastic surgeon Steve Hoefflin, who is accused of "fondling, disrobing, photographing and ridiculing his anaesthesized patients" by former employees. The probe is eventually dropped after Hoefflin pays his former employees an undisclosed sum.
1997 - 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. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).
1998 - Gerhard Schr�der becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vasgen Sarkissian and 6 other members killed in an attack on the Armenian parliament.
2002 - Trades unionist Luiz In�cio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
2002 - Running back Emmitt Smith became the current leader in career rushing yards in the National Football League, breaking the record then held by Walter Payton.
2004 - Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox won Game 4 of the World Series 3-0, sweeping the series in 4 games over the St. Louis Cardinals on a night featuring a full lunar eclipse, becoming champions again for the first time since 1918.
2004 - Matti Nyk�nen, once a very successful Finnish ski-jumper, is found guilty of attempt of manslaughter and sentenced to a two year and two month jail term for stabbing a family friend.