October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining.

Events

600-1899

• 625 - Honorius I becomes Pope.
• 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
• 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which established the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio signed between France and Austria.
• 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
• 1870 - Marshal Fran�ois 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.

1900-1999

• 1904 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world.
• 1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
• 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
• 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
• 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• 1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'�tat by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ends peacefully.
• 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 ran aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• 1986 - The London Stock Exchange is deregulated and computerisation is introduced for the first time.
• 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 1995 - Latvia applies for membership of the European Union.
• 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.
• 1998 - Gerhard Schr�der becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
• 1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vasgen Sarkissian and 6 other members killed in an attack on the Armenian parliament.

2000-2099

• 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz In�cio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
• 2002 - Running back Emmitt Smith became the current leader in career rushing yards in the National Football League, breaking the record then held by Walter Payton.
• 2004 - Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox won the World Series in 4 games over the St. Louis Cardinals on a night featuring a full lunar eclipse, becoming champions again for the first time since 1918.
• 2004 - Matti Nyk�nen, once a very succesfull Finnish manslaughter and sentenced to a two year and two month jail term. He had stabbed a family friend.

Births

1400-1899

• 1466 (assumed) - Dutch writer and philosopher
• 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer. (d. 1779)
• 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter and one of only two female founder members of the Royal Academy (d. 1819)
• 1782 - Niccol� Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
• 1811 - Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine (d. 1875)
• 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan.
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States (d. 1919)

1900-1999

• 1931 - Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
• 1940 - John Gotti, New York mafia boss
• 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, writer
• 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, documentary filmmaker

Deaths

900-1899

• 939 - King Athelstan I of England
• 1271 - Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
• 1439 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer
• 1505 - Ivan III of Russia

1900-1999

• 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, World Champion Boxer
• 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician
• 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
• 1975 - Rex Stout, novelist
• 1977 - James M. Cain, novelist
• 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, Singer/Song writer
• 1990 - Elliot Roosevelt, advertising executive
• 1990 - Xavier Cugat, musician
• 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, actor

2000-2099

• 2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone
• 2003 - Rod Roddy, television announcer

Holidays

• Feast day of Saint Frumentius, who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia
• Independence Day in Turkmenistan (1991)
• Independence Day in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979)

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
  

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