October 27 in history
Events on October 27
Notable events that happened on October 27 in past years.
- 2019
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
Wikipedia article: Islamic State - 2014
Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
Wikipedia article: Operation Herrick - 1994
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
Wikipedia article: Gliese 229 - 1988
Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
Wikipedia article: Embassy of the United States, Moscow - 1980
The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.
Wikipedia article: Chun Doo-hwan - 1962
Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
Wikipedia article: Rudolf Anderson - 1958
Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
Wikipedia article: Iskander Mirza - 1936
Abdication Crisis: Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
Wikipedia article: Abdication of Edward VIII - 1919
The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk.
Wikipedia article: Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents - 1913
A rail workers' strike in Chile escalates into a general strike, organized by the Regional Workers' Federation of Chile.
Wikipedia article: General strike - 1863
American Civil War: Union forces led by General William F. Smith defeat Confederate forces in the Battle of Brown's Ferry, opening up a supply line to the besieged city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Wikipedia article: American Civil War - 1806
The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
Wikipedia article: Fall of Berlin (1806) - 1682
Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Wikipedia article: Philadelphia - 1553
Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 312
Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
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