Historical Events
- 312 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross
- 1795 Pinckney's Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River
- 1962 Black Saturday during the Cuban Missile Crisis: An American spy plane is shot down over Cuba and the navy drops warning depth charges on Soviet submarines
- 1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people
- 1986 British government deregulates financial markets in a "Big Bang", enhancing London's status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality
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Oct 27 in Film & TV
- 1955 "Rebel Without a Cause", directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, is released
Oct 27 in Music
- 1960 American pop and soul singer Ben E. King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
Oct 27 in Sport
- 2019 Tiger Woods scores a wire-to-wire 3-stroke win over Hideki Matsuyama at the inaugural Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf & Country Club to tie Sam Snead's record of 82 PGA victories
Did You Know?
DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called "nylon"
On October 27, 1938
Theodore Roosevelt
Oliver Tambo
H. R. Haldeman
Sylvia Plath
John Gotti
John CleeseWould You Believe?
First section of New York subway - Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem, opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), fare one nickel
On October 27, 1904
Famous Weddings
- 1880 Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th US President marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday
- 1910 Baseball legend Connie Mack (47) weds Katherine Holahan
- 1964 American singers Sonny Bono (29) & Cher [Sarkisian] (18) wed, Cher wears bell-bottoms; divorce in 1975
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Ivan the Great
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Vision of the Cross
Roman Emperor Constantine as depicted by Raphael having his Vision of the Cross on October 27, 312
October 27, 312 AD
The Man Who Saved The World
Many people think John F. Kennedy saved the world with his handling of the Cuban missile crisis. But an unknown Russian sailor also played a dramatic role.
October 27, 1962
Weekly Quiz for October 21 - 27
In which battle in 1805 was British Admiral Horatio Nelson killed in action? Who was the 1st European to sail into and then across the Pacific Ocean, in 1520?
