About October 27
October 27, 2021 is the 300th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Scorpio is the sun 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 97 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 27
- 710 –Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 1524 –Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1644 –Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1806 –The French Army enters Berlin.
- 1827 –Bellini’s third opera Il pirata is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1964 –Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as “A Time for Choosing”.
- 1971 –The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973 –The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1981 –The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1991 –Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1995 –Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 2005 –The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
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