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

  • 1275
    Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
  • 1524
    Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
  • 1553
    Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1924
    The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
  • 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.
  • 1967
    Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the Baltimore Four protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
  • 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.
  • 1994
    Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
  • 1994
    The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
  • 1995
    Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
  • 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
    Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

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