About October 27
October 27, 2025 is the 300th 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.
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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 113 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 27
- 710 –Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 1275 –Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1553 –Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1682 –Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1806 –The French Army enters Berlin.
- 1810 –United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1953 –British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1954 –Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1995 –Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 2004 –Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.
- 2005 –Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
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