About October 27
October 27, 2023 is the 300th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 106 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 27
- 312 –Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
- 710 –Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 1806 –The French Army enters Berlin.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 1986 –The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
- 1994 –The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
- 1995 –Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
- 1995 –Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 2005 –The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
- 2011 –The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE - it is likely to be Japanese.
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