What are the important events that happened on October 27? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 27: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 27 is the 300th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 14, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 489,312 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectagon’ day.
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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 113 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,693 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 27 Historical Events
- 710 –Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 1838 –Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 1948 –Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
- 1961 –NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 1962 –A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2005 –Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
Who were born on October 27?
- 1401 –Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
- 1894 –Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
- 1939 –John Cleese, British actor and writer
- 1951 –Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
- 1957 –Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
- 1957 –Jeff East, American actor
- 1976 –Wilson Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 –Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
- 1982 –Patrick Fugit, American actor
- 1984 –Emilie Ullerup, Danish actress
Who died on October 27?
- 1271 –Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
- 1312 –John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
- 1449 –Ulugh Beg, Persian ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
- 1573 –Laurentius Petri, Swedish religious figure (b. 1499)
- 1617 –Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
- 1968 –Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
- 1980 –Steve Peregrin Took, British singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
- 2001 –Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1925)
- 2006 –Reko Lundán, Finnish writer (b. 1969)
- 2010 –Néstor Kirchner, Argentine politician (b. 1950)
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