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Events on the 27th of October in history

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27 Oct 0312 Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
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27 Oct 0625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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27 Oct 0710 Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
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27 Oct 0939 Æthelstan, the first King of England, died and was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
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27 Oct 1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
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27 Oct 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain
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27 Oct 1523 English troops occupy Montalidier France
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27 Oct 1524 Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
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27 Oct 1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
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27 Oct 1644 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
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27 Oct 1644 Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
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27 Oct 1651 English troops occupy Limerick Ireland
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27 Oct 1662 England sells Duinkerken to France for 2.5 million livres
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27 Oct 1676 Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw
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27 Oct 1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
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27 Oct 1688 King James II fires Premier Robert Spencer
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27 Oct 1702 English troops plunder St. Augustine Florida
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27 Oct 1775 US Navy established
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27 Oct 1787 Federalist letters start appearing in New York newspapers
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27 Oct 1795 The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
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27 Oct 1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
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27 Oct 1806 The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
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27 Oct 1810 United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
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27 Oct 1810 US annexes West Florida from Spain
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27 Oct 1827 Bellini's third opera, Il pirata, is premiered at Teatro alla Scala di Milano
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27 Oct 1838 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
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27 Oct 1858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
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27 Oct 1863 Dutch railway to Harlingen opens
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27 Oct 1864 Battle of Fair Oaks, Va near Richmont
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27 Oct 1864 Battle of Newtonia, MI
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27 Oct 1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed / sinks
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27 Oct 1864 Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
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27 Oct 1867 Garibaldi marches on Rome
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27 Oct 1870 Marshal François Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
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27 Oct 1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption
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27 Oct 1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Hathaway Lee, on his 22nd birthday
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27 Oct 1884 Architect Henry Hardenberghs Dakota-complex opens in New York City
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27 Oct 1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain, " performed in Russia
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27 Oct 1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina
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27 Oct 1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
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27 Oct 1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
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27 Oct 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.
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27 Oct 1904 World's 1st subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel
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27 Oct 1907 Černová massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. This would led to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary.
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27 Oct 1913 President Wilson says US will never attack another country
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27 Oct 1914 British battleship Audacious sunk by mine
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27 Oct 1914 The British lose their first battleship of 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.The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until November 14 1918. The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic sister ship of RMS Titanic.
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27 Oct 1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
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27 Oct 1916 Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
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27 Oct 1919 US Congress sign Volstead Act
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27 Oct 1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
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27 Oct 1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
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27 Oct 1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
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27 Oct 1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
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27 Oct 1922 A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
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27 Oct 1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
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27 Oct 1924 The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
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27 Oct 1924 The Uzbek SSR forms
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27 Oct 1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
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27 Oct 1927 Queen Wilhelmina opens Meuse-Waal Canal in Nijmegen
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27 Oct 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 among its five signatories.
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27 Oct 1931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2
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27 Oct 1935 SDAP and NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands
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27 Oct 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.
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27 Oct 1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
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27 Oct 1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
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27 Oct 1942 5th day of battle at El Alamein: heavy battles / Australian advance
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27 Oct 1942 US aircraft carrier Hornet sinks off Santa Cruz
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27 Oct 1944 Hertogenbosch and Tilburg freed from Nazi occupation
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27 Oct 1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade
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27 Oct 1944 World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
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27 Oct 1945 "Carib Song" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 36 performances
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27 Oct 1945 1st edition of Elseviers Weekly newspaper (Elseviers Magazine)
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27 Oct 1946 Georgi Domitrovs National Front wins Bulgaria elections (78%)
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27 Oct 1947 "You Bet Your Life, " with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
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27 Oct 1947 WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, Maryland (NBC) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 1948 Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
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27 Oct 1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
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27 Oct 1953 British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
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27 Oct 1954 President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem
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27 Oct 1954 WISN TV channel 12 in Milwaukee, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 1954 Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
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27 Oct 1954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
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27 Oct 1954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
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27 Oct 1955 Argentine peso devalued
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27 Oct 1955 Satomi Myodo, renews Zen nun vows and takes Buddhist name of Daien Myodo
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27 Oct 1957 Celal Bayar re-elected President of Turkey
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27 Oct 1957 WOWL TV channel 15 in Florence, AL (NBC / CBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 1957 WPTA TV channel 21 in Fort Wayne, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 1958 Gen Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as President of Pakistan
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27 Oct 1958 WEDU TV channel 3 in Tampa-St Petersburg, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 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.
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27 Oct 1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
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27 Oct 1960 AL admits LA and Washington to the league
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27 Oct 1960 Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" and"Stand By Me"
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27 Oct 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya and Sary Shagan USSR
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27 Oct 1961 NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
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27 Oct 1961 Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
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27 Oct 1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
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27 Oct 1961 American Basketball League starts play
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27 Oct 1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN
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27 Oct 1962 "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 673 performances
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27 Oct 1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
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27 Oct 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.
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27 Oct 1962 A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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27 Oct 1963 Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW vs. Queensland at Gabba
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27 Oct 1963 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
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27 Oct 1964 "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 215 performances
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27 Oct 1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans / 800 Belgians
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27 Oct 1964 Singers Sonny and Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms
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27 Oct 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".
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27 Oct 1965 WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
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27 Oct 1966 UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
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27 Oct 1967 Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
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27 Oct 1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
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27 Oct 1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
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27 Oct 1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico
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27 Oct 1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational
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27 Oct 1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
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27 Oct 1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
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27 Oct 1969 St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
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27 Oct 1970 "Light, Lively & Yiddish" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 87 performances
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27 Oct 1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
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27 Oct 1971 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Za
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27 Oct 1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
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27 Oct 1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
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27 Oct 1973 A 1.4 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes in Cañon City, Colorado.
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27 Oct 1973 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers-3-2
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27 Oct 1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
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27 Oct 1974 Chantal Langlace runs female world record marathon (2:46:24)
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27 Oct 1975 Covers of both Time and Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen
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27 Oct 1977 Amsterdam businessman M Caransa kidnapped
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27 Oct 1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
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27 Oct 1978 Begin & Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
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27 Oct 1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
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27 Oct 1979 St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of the UK (National Day)
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27 Oct 1979 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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27 Oct 1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
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27 Oct 1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
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27 Oct 1980 Astros owner John McMullen replaces GM Tal Smith with Al Rosen
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27 Oct 1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
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27 Oct 1981 The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
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27 Oct 1981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
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27 Oct 1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
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27 Oct 1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
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27 Oct 1984 Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
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27 Oct 1985 16th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:11:34
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27 Oct 1985 Anthony Carter begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
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27 Oct 1985 Billy Martin is fired by Yankees for 4th time
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27 Oct 1985 Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states and east coast, 49 die
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27 Oct 1985 Kansas City Royals beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
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27 Oct 1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
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27 Oct 1986 New York Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
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27 Oct 1986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
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27 Oct 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.
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27 Oct 1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
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27 Oct 1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
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27 Oct 1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
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27 Oct 1988 Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
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27 Oct 1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
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27 Oct 1990 "Michael Feinstein in Concert" closes at Golden NYC after 30 performances
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27 Oct 1991 "Homecoming" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 49 performances
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27 Oct 1991 John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic
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27 Oct 1991 Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
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27 Oct 1991 Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win the 8th World Series in 7
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27 Oct 1992 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
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27 Oct 1992 Fox is to launch Tuesday night network TV, rescheduled to Decemeber
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27 Oct 1992 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien
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27 Oct 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.
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27 Oct 1994 Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
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27 Oct 1995 Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
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27 Oct 1995 Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
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27 Oct 1997 Dow Jones crashes record 554 pts to 7161
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27 Oct 1997 Intel Corp buys Digital Equipment for $700 million
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27 Oct 1997 Microsoft argues it should be "free from government interference"
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27 Oct 1997 US releases a redesigned $50 bill
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27 Oct 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.
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27 Oct 1999 Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and six other members.
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27 Oct 2005 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
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