27 October

The 27t o October is the 300t day o the year (301t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 65 days bidin.

 Events 
 939 - Edmund I o Ingland becomes King.
 1275 - Tradeetional foondin o Amsterdam.
 1662 - Charles II, Keeng o Scots sells Dunkirk tae Fraunce.
 1682 - Foondin o Philadelphia, Pennsylvanie.
 1810 - The Unitit States annexes Wast Florida frae Spain.
 1904 - The first New York Ceety subway opens.
 1914 - Warld War I: Breetish super dreadnought  battleship "HMS Audacious" is sunk bi a German-laid minefield aff Tory Island, Ireland.
 1924 - The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic is creatit.
 1953 - Breetish nuclear test Totem 2 is carried oot at Emu Field, Sooth Australie.
 1961 - NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket.
 1966 - The Unitit Naitions remove Sooth Africae's mandate ower Namibie.
 1968 - End o the 1968 Simmer Olympics in Mexico Ceety.
 1971 - The name o the Democratic Republic o the Congo is chynged tae Zaire.
 1979 - Saunt Vincent an the Grenadines gain unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
 1991 - Turkmenistan declares unthirldom frae the Soviet Union.
 1999 - Gunmen attack Armenie's pairliament.
 2002 - Munt Etna erupts. 
 2002 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is electit Preses o Brazil.
 2003 - The Pablo Picasso museum is opened in Malaga, Andalusie, Spain.
 2011 - Michael D. Higgins is electit Preses o the Republic o Ireland.
 2017 - The Catalan pairlament declares unthirldom frae Spain; Spain's central govrenment muives tae tak total control o the region.
 2018 - 11 fowk are kilt in a shuitin at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvanie.
 2018 - A helicopter crashes in Leicester ootside the Leicester City F.C. stadium an bursts intae flames, killin aw 5 fowk on baird, incluidin the club's chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

 Births 
 1736 - James Macpherson, Scots poet, writer an politeecian (d. 1796)
 1782 - Niccolo Paganini, Italian violinist, guitarist an componer (d. 1840)
 1797 - Andrew Combe, Scots medicinar (d. 1847)
 1799 - Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11t Yerl o Home, Scots politeecian and diplomat (d. 1881)
 1808 - James Macrae Aitken, Scots chess player (d. 1883)
 1844 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swadish writer an pacifist (d. 1916)
 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26nt Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1919)
 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet an writer (d. 1953)
 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American basebaw player (d. 2014)
 1922 - George Young, Scots fitbawer (d. 1997)
 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American airtist (d. 1997)
 1925 - Warren Christopher, Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 2011)
 1929 - Frank Meechan, Scots fitbawer (d. 1976)
 1931 - Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist an short story writer (d. 1963)
 1939 - John Cleese, Inglis actor an comedian
 1945 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, umwhile Preses o Brazil
 1951 - K. K. Downing, Inglis muisicker
 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian actor
 1954 - Frank Gray, Scots fitbawer
 1958 - Simon Le Bon, Inglis sangster (Duran Duran)
 1962 - Stewart McKimmie, Scots fitbawer
 1975 - Aron Ralston, American adventurer
 1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore-born violinist
 1980 - Seth Gueko (Nicolas Salvadori), French rapper an entrepreneur
 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, Inglis telly personality
 1992 - Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian fitbawer

 Daiths 
 939 - Athelstan, Saxon King o Ingland (b. 895)
 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen o Scots
 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler (b. 1394)
 1505 - Ivan III o Roushie (b. 1440)
 1605 - Akbar the Great, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
 1932 - Henry Ogg Forbes, Scots splorer, ornithologist an botanist (b. 1851)
 1968 - Lise Meitner, Austrick pheesicist (b. 1878)
 1980 - John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American pheesicist (b. 1899)
 2010 - Néstor Kirchner, Preses o Argentinae (b. 1950)
 2013 - Lou Reed, American muisicker (b. 1942)
 2018 - Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman (b. 1958)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day o Turkmenistan an Saunt Vincent an the Grenadines

Category:Days o the year