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October 27
(Redirected from 27 October)
October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining.
Events
600-1899
1900-1999
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1904 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world.
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1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers ).
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1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
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1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
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1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
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1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
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1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ends peacefully.
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1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth in Fremont County, Colorado.
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1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 ran aground on the east coast of Sweden.
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1986 - The London Stock Exchange is deregulated and computerisation is introduced for the first time.
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1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
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1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
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1993 - Fires in five counties in southern California destroy more than 500 homes and cause an estimate 1 billion USD of damage within a week.
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1995 - Latvia applies for membership of the European Union.
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1997 - The California Medical Board announces its investigation of Hollywood plastic surgeon Steve Hoefflin , who is accused of "fondling, disrobing, photographing and ridiculing his anaesthesized patients" by former employees. The probe is eventually dropped after Hoefflin pays his former employees an undisclosed sum.
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1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
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1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vasgen Sarkissian and 6 other members killed in an attack on the Armenian parliament.
2000-2099
Births
1400-1899
1900-1999
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1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet
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1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress
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1931 - Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
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1932 - Sylvia Plath, poet
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1939 - John Cleese, British actor, writer, and Monty Python member
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1940 - John Gotti, New York mafia boss
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1950 - Fran Lebowitz, writer
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1958 - Dave Harold Sr. ,service tech c&w investments
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1958 - Simon Le Bon, musician, Duran Duran
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1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, musician, Cradle of Filth
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1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, documentary filmmaker
Deaths
900-1899
1900-1999
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1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French world champion boxer (b. 1916)
- 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
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1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician
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1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
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1975 - Rex Stout, novelist
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1977 - James M. Cain, novelist
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1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, Singer/Song writer
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1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, author, advertising executive, son of Franklin Roosevelt,
- 1990 - Xavier Cugat, musician
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1996 - Morey Amsterdam, actor
2000-2099
Holidays
Recorded this date
- 1903 "Silver Threads Among The Gold " (w. Eben E. Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks )
- Richard Jose
- 1911 "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" (w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt)
- Christie MacDonald & Lyric Quartette with O/Magee
- 1911 "There's A Girl In Havana" (w. Irving Berlin & E. Ray Goetz m. A. Baldwin Sloane )
- Beulah Young & Henry Burr
- 1913 "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
- Lillian Davis
- 1913 "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" (w.m Harry Gifford , Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor)
- Harry Macdonough & Marguerite Dunlap
- 1916 "A Broken Doll" (w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris )
- Nora Bayes with O/Rosario Bourdon
- 1916 "When John McCormack Sings A Song" (w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz)
- Nora Bayes
- 1921 "When Buddha Smiles" (w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown)
- Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
- 1922 "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" (w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball )
- Peter Dawson
- 1922 "Rolling Down To Rio" (w. Rudyard Kipling m. German)
- Peter Dawson
- 1922 "Drake Goes West" (Sanderson)
- Peter Dawson
- 1925 "Sweet Man" (w. Roy Turk m. Maceo Pinkard )
- Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1925 "Sleepy Time Gal" (w. Joseph R. Alden & Raymond B. Egan m. Ange Lorenzo & Richard A. Whiting)
- Lewis James
- 1925 "Just A Cottage Small (By A Waterfall)" (w. B. G. De Sylva m. James F. Hanley )
- John McCormack
- 1926 "Because I Love You" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
- Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1927 "Up In The Clouds" (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby)
- Franklyn Baur with Harry Archer & his Orchestra
- 1930 "Gorgonzola"
- Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
- 1930 "I'm Twenty-One Today" (Kendal)
- Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1930 "Pick Up Tha' Musket"
- Stanley Holloway with piano Wolseley Charles
- 1930 "They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree" (w.m. Edward Eliscu , Billy Hill & Willie Raskin)
- Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
- 1930 "The Face On The Bar-Room Floor" (w. Maurice De Witt m. Leonard Hope )
- Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
- 1930 "There's Something About An Old-Fashioned Girl" (w.m. Lew Brown, B. G. De Sylva & Ray Henderson)
- Pat O'Malley w. chorus with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
- 1930 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
- Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
- 1932 "Let's Call It A Day" (w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson)
- Frank Marvin with Arden-Ohman Orchestra
- 1932 "Please" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger)
- Rudy Vallee
- 1932 "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney )
- Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees
- 1933 "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" (w.m. Harry Woods & Claude Hurlburt )
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1933 "Thanks" (w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston)
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1938 "Do You Wanna Jump Children?" (w.m. James Van Heusen, Willie Bryant & Victor Selsman)
- Cab Calloway
- 1939 "I'll Remember" (Rich, Connelly)
- Cyril Grantham with Geraldo & his Orchestra
- 1939 "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Evelyn Dove with Billy Cotton & his Band
- 1941 "I Hate You, Darling" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Buddy Clark
- 1941 "Ev'rything I Love" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Buddy Clark
- 1941 "Ev'ry Time" (w.m. Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin)
- Buddy Clark
- 1943 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
- Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
- 1943 "When They Ask About You" (w.m. Sam H. Stept)
- Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
- 1944 "Right As The Rain" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen)
- Celeste Holm & David Brooks
- 1947 "Bluegrass Breakdown"
- Bill Monroe
- 1950 "It Is No Secret" (w.m. Stuart Hamblen )
- Ink Spots
- 1950 "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (w.m. Al Hoffman , Walter Kent & Mann Curtis)
- Frankie Laine w. Conlon Singers with O/Harry Geller
- 1951 "Charmaine" (w.m. Erno Rapee & Lew Pollack )
- Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra
- 1953 "Not Since Nineveh" (w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest)
- Danny Kaye with O/Sonny Burke
- 1958 "Green Christmas" (Stan Freberg)
- Stan Freberg featuring Daws Butler as Cratchet with Marvin Miller and Wil Wright & Jud Conlon chorale with Billy May & his Music
- 1959 "Young Emotions" (w. Mack David m. Jerry Livingston )
- Ricky Nelson
- 1960 "Spanish Harlem" (w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
- Ben E. King
- 1960 "Stand By Me" (King, Leiber, Stoller)
- Ben E. King with O/Stan Applebaum
External links
October 26 - October 28 - November 27 - September 27 - more historical anniversaries
Last updated: 05-22-2005 00:19:36
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