According to the Gregorian calendar, 27 October is day number 300 in a year, and day number 301 is a leap year. 27 October has its own special significance in the history of India and the world because many important events took place on this day which have remained recorded forever in the pages of history.
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Let us know some such important events of 27 October, knowing which will increase your general knowledge. The collected facts are like famous people born on 27 October, deaths, war treaties, independence of any country in the world, invention of the latest technology, change of government, important national and international days, etc.
Important events of 27 October in the world
Incident year incident/incident/narrative
- 1275 The oldest recorded certificate of the name ‘Amsterdam’ was created by Count Floris V of Holland, who granted permission to the incumbents, who had built a bridge with a dam across the Amstel (pictured), of the bridge. Exemption from paying toll.
- 1553 Condemned as a heretic for preaching non-Trinitarianism and infant baptism, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake outside Geneva.
- 1644 English Civil War – The combined forces of Parliament score a landslide victory over the Royalists but fail to inflict any strategic losses at the Second Battle of Newbury.
- 1676 Poland and Turkey signed the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1682 William Penn lands at New Castle, Delaware Colony, on his way to the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1751 The Hauraki period begins in Japan.
- 1789 Austrian forces were routed by Brandt revolutionaries at the Battle of Turnhout.
- 1795 The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of Madrid, which gave away the Spanish colonies, and the U.S. Established boundaries between them.
- 1810 The United States annexes the Republic of West Florida.
- 1810 The United States cedes Florida’s western colony, West Florida.
- 1811 Isaac Merritt Singer was born and was the inventor of the sewing machine.
- 1838 Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs orders expulsion, ordering all Mormons to leave the state.
- 1838 Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issues Missouri Executive Order 44, ordering all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
- 1904 New York City built the first underground pedestrian street.
- 1907 Hungarian gendarmes fired into a crowd of people collecting donations at the local church in Csernova (now Ružomberok, Slovakia), killing fifteen people.
- 1914 Greek troops captured the city of Northern Epirus at the behest of Elizon.
- 1916 Supporters of deposed Ethiopian Emperor-designate Iyasu V won the Battle of Segale, ending an attempt to restore him to the throne.
- 1920 The headquarters of the League of Nations was moved to Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1922 The Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws.
- The 1940 World’s Fair in New York concluded with a one-day attendance of 537,952 visitors.
- 1946: After the referendum in France, the constitution of the fourth presidential term of this country got public approval, thus the fourth democracy started in France.
- 1958 General Ayub Khan became the ruler of Pakistan by ousting Pakistan President Skadar Mirza.
- 1958 General Ayub Khan ousts Iskander Mirza in a bloodless coup to become the second President of Pakistan after Mirza appointed him enforcer of martial law.
- 1959 At least 2,000 people died in a hurricane in western Mexico.
- 1962 After much calculation from both parties, the United States and the USSR reached an agreed plan to end hostilities and defuse the fortnight-old Cuban Missile Crisis, which had the world contemplating an apocalyptic nuclear Armageddon.
- 1971 DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) Zaire is reunified.
- 1981 Cold War-Soviet Whiskey-class submarine U 137 runs aground near the runway at Karlskrona Naval Base (commemorative photo), sparking an incident dubbed ‘Whiskey on the Rocks’.
- 1986 The British government unexpectedly deregulates the financial markets, a move that changed the way they function in the country, dubbed as the ‘Big Bang’.
- 1986 International World Day of Prayer was held in Assisi, Italy.
- 1991 The Higher Council of Turkmenistan approved the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 US Navy Petty Officer Alan R. Schindler, Jr. was executed in Insebo, Nagasaki, Japan, the victim of a hate crime for being gay, sparking a national debate that led to the disestablishment of American troops. Don’t tell the policy.
- 1999 PM Vazgen Sargsyan and Speaker Karen Demirchyan were killed in the terrorist attack on the Armenia Parliament.
- 2000 Henry McLeish becomes First Minister of Scotland.
- The 2003 China earthquake affected more than 50,000 people.
- The 2004 Boston Red Sox completed a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals to win the club’s first championship in 86 years.
- 2005 The death of three Muslim youths in Clichy-sous-Boisbourg, Paris, led to four months of rioting by youths, mostly of African origin, in various parts of France.
- 2005 North Africa in various parts of France due to the death of two Muslim youths in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois
- It has been four months since the riots, mostly by youth of ethnic origin.
- 2006 Shares of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China go on sale on the stock exchanges of Shanghai and Hong Kong, making it the world’s largest IPO (initial public offering).
- 2008 Two pro-Nazi white supremacists have been arrested on charges of plotting to eliminate US presidential candidate Barack Obama of Kenyan descent.
- 2009 The Church of Scientology, which is put on trial in France, is convicted of organized fraud in the Gaelic nation.
- 2010 The largest neutron star known to man is discovered by astronomers.
- 2011 A WW-II era bomb is discovered in the German city of Halle, leading to the evacuation of 12,000 people.
- 2014 A cholera outbreak claims at least 51 lives in Niger, the capital of Nigeria.
Important events of 27 October in India
Incident year incident/incident/narrative
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- Indian Army celebrated Infantry Day National Day
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- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Independence Day National Day celebrated on 27 October
