27th October

Events

• 625 - Honorius I becomes Pope
• 1775 - United States Navy established
• 1797 - Treaty of Campo Formio signed
• 1810 - United States annexes West Florida

• 1946 - First commercially sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers)
• 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes first African-American general in the United States Air Force
• 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends
• 1991 - Turkmenistan independence achived
• 1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vazgan Sarkisian and 6 other members killed in attack on Armenian parliament.

Births

• 1466 (assumed) - Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch writer and philospher
• 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer. († 1779)
• 1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer
• 1811 - Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine († 1875)
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States († 1919)
• 1872 - Emily Post, etiquette authority
• 1912 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
• 1914 - Dylan Thomas, British poet and writer († 1953)
• 1917 - Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress
• 1918 - Teresa Wright, actress
• 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist
• 1924 - Ruby Dee, actress
• 1926 - H.R. Haldeman, Watergate scandal figure
• 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet († 1963)
• 1933 - Floyd Cramer, musician
• 1939 - John Cleese, British actor, comedian
• 1940 - John Gotti, American mobster († 2002)
• 1942 - Lee Greenwood, musician
• 1945 - Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President
• 1946 - Carrie Snodgress, actress
• 1947 - Terry Anderson, journalist, Middle Eastern hostage
• 1948 - Berni Wrightson, American artist
• 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, writer
• 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian actor
• 1953 - Peter Firth, actor
• 1958 - Simon Le Bon, musician
• 1966 - Matt Drudge, Internet personality
• 1967 - Scott Weiland, musician ("Stone Temple Pilots")
• 1972 - Maria Mutola, Mozambiquan athlete
• 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, American television personality

Deaths

• 939 - King Athelstan I of England
• 1439 - Albert II of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid astronomer
• 1505 - Ivan III of Russia
• 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
• 1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, advertising executive
• 1990 - Xavier Cugat, musician
• 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, actor
• 2003 - Rod Roddy, television announcer

Holidays

October 26 - October 28 - November 27 - September 27 - more historical anniversaries