About October 27
October 27, 2024 is the 301st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Scorpio is the sun 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 94 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 27
- 1275 –Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1553 –Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1682 –Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1795 –The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
- 1914 –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.
- 1916 –Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
- 1922 –A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country’s annexation to the South African Union.
- 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.
- 1953 –British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 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.
- 1962 –A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1971 –The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1973 –The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 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.
- 1988 –Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 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.
- 1994 –Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
- 1995 –Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
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