All Events

Historical Events on October 27

  • Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    1682

    Philadelphia is established in the Colonial American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

  • New York City Subway

    1904

    The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in the world.

  • HMS Audacious (1912)

    1914

    The British lose their first battleship of World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. The loss was kept an official secret in Britain until 14 November 1918 (three days after the end of the war). The sinking was witnessed and photographed by passengers on RMS Olympic.

  • Slovak National Uprising

    1944

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

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    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 SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.

  • A Time for Choosing

    1964

    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".

  • Zaire

    1971

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

  • Ronald Reagan

    1988

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

  • Operation Herrick

    2014

    Britain withdraws from Afghanistan after the end of Operation Herrick which started on June 20, 2002 after 12 years four months and seven days.

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