History Events on October 27

Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.

#Second_Battle_of_Newbury

Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

#Amsterdam

French troops lay siege to Pavia.

#Italian_campaign_of_1524-25

Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.

#Armenian_parliament_shooting

A aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.

#Enrico_Mattei

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

#Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo

Catalonia declares independence from Spain.

#Catalonia

Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

#Siege_of_Metz_(1870)

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.

#Cuban_Missile_Crisis

United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

#West_Florida

By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.

#Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admiral)

The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

#1997_Asian_financial_crisis

Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.

#Battle_of_Segale

The Boston Red Sox defeat the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first World Series in 86 years.

#Boston_Red_Sox

First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

#HMS_Audacious_(1912)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

#Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines

King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.

#Proclamation_of_Rebellion

The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt.

#Battle_of_Jena-Auerstedt

Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

#Michael_Servetus

World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.

#Wehrmacht

Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.

#Operation_Herrick

Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

#Æthelstan

Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

#Soviet_submarine_S-363

Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.

#Bettino_Craxi

Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".

#A_Time_for_Choosing

The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

#Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic

A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring 6, including 4 police officers.

#Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting

Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.

#Turkmenistan

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.

#Big_Bang_(financial_markets)

Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

#Philadelphia

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.

#1958_Pakistani_coup_d'état

Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.

#London_Naval_Treaty

Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

#Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Moscow

Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.

United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.

Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.

NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

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.

A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.

Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.

The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line.

Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.

The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.