Today in History - Famous Events for Yesterday

🏰 On this day in History - Oct 27

0625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba & claims it for Spain

1523 English troops occupy Montalidier France

1605 Spanish army under General SpЎnola occupies Wachtendonk

1627 English assault on French Il de R‚

1644 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies

1651 English troops occupy Limerick Ireland

1662 England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres

1676 Poland & Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw

1688 King James II fires premier Robert Spencer

1702 English troops plunder St Augustine Florida

1775 US Navy forms

1787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers

1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi

1810 US annexes West Florida from Spain

1830 Major-General Baron D Chass‚ bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution)

1858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106

1863 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens

1864 Battle of Boydton Plank Road, VA (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad)

1864 Battle of Fair Oaks, Va near Richmont

1864 Battle of Newtonia, MI

1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed/sinks

1864 Siege of Petersburg, VA

1867 Garibaldi marches on Rome

1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption

1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday

1884 Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in NYC

1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia

1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC

1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)

1901 1st complete performance of Debussy's "Nocturnes"

1904 World's 1st subway, IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel (Bkln bridge-145 & Bdwy)

1913 Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country

1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine

1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)

1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim

1919 US Congress sign Volstead Act

1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva

1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins

1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day

1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

1924 Uzbek SSR forms

1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller

1927 Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen

1931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2¬"

1935 SDAP & NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands

1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"

1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan

1941 Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade

1942 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles/Australian advance

1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz

1944 Hertogenbosch & Tilburg freed from nazi occupation

1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade

1945 "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances

1945 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)

1946 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)

1947 "You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio

1947 WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting

1948 Albert Camus' "L'‚tat de SiЉge," premieres in Paris

1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in Negev

1950 Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St Joan," premieres

1952 "My Darlin' Aida" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 89 perfs

1954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF

1954 Pres Eisenhower offers aid to S Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem

1954 WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC

1955 Argentine peso devalued

1955 Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows & takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo

1957 Celal Bayar re-elected president of Turkey

1957 WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting

1957 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting

1958 Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as president of Pakistan

1958 WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting

1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico

1960 AL admits LA & Washington to the league

1960 Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"

1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test

1961 American Basketball League starts play

1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd & 103rd members of UN

1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR

1962 "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 perfs

1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba

1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island

1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW v Qld at Gabba

1963 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament

1964 "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 perfs

1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians

1964 Singers Sonny & Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms

1965 WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting

1966 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC

1966 UN deprives South Africa of Namibia

1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records

1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada

1967 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen

1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico

1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational

1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen

1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders

1969 St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain

1970 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 perfs

1971 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Za‹re

1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan

1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created

1973 1st time Islanders beat Rangers-3-2

1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6

1974 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)

1975 Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen

1977 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped

1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200

1978 Begin & Sadat win Nobel Peace prize

1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill

1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds

1979 St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Natl Day)

1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide

1980 Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen

1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph

1981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus

1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics

1984 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1984 Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing

1985 15th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:34

1985 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34

1985 Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions

1985 Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time

1985 Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die

1985 KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series

1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's

1986 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series

1986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"

1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections

1987 Peter Shaffer's "Lettice & Lovage," premieres in London

1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution

1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)

1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra

1990 "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden NYC after 30 perfs

1990 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled

1991 "Andre Heller's Wonderhouse" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 9 perfs

1991 "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances

1991 John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic

1991 Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7

1992 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies

1992 Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber

1992 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien

1992 Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink

1993 Howard Stern's radio show begins broadcasting in El Paso Texas

1995 Contract finalizing Cleveland Browns' move to Balt is signed

1995 Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto

1996 US beats Japan, 21«-14«, at Nichirei International Golf Tournament

1997 Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161

1997 Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million

1997 Microsoft argues it should be "free from govt interference"

1997 US releases a redesigned $50 bill

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