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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 François 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'état 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 Schröder 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 Inácio 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 Nykänen, once a very succesfull Finnish ski-jumper, is found guilty of attempt of manslaughter and sentenced to a two year and two month jail term. He had stabbed a family friend.
Births
1400-1899
1466 (assumed) - Erasmus of Rotterdam, 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 - Niccolò 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
1939 - John Cleese, British actor, writer, and Monty Python member
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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