About October 27
October 27, 2020 is the 301st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 108 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 27
- 710 –Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 1644 –Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1795 –The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 1922 –A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country’s annexation to the South African Union.
- 1924 –The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1958 –Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1961 –NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 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.
- 1988 –Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
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