# What happened on October 27 in history?

**Date:** October 27  
**Events recorded:** 48  
**Years spanned:** 312 – 2019  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/october/27/

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## Featured Event

**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.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State)

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## Events on this date

- **312** — Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great))
- **1275** — Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam))
- **1524** — French troops lay siege to Pavia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_campaign_of_1524%E2%80%931525))
- **1553** — Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus))
- **1644** — Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Newbury))
- **1674** — The French garrison in Grave surrenders the town to a Dutch army after a difficult siege. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave%2C_Netherlands))
- **1682** — Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia))
- **1726** — J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, one of few works he called a cantata. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach))
- **1775** — King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III))
- **1795** — The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinckney's_Treaty))
- **1806** — The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Berlin_(1806)))
- **1810** — United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Florida))
- **1838** — Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilburn_Boggs))
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1870** — Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War))
- **1907** — Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when gendarmes opened fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cernov%C3%A1_massacre))
- **1914** — World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1916** — Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Segale))
- **1919** — The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Congress_of_Peasants%2C_Workers_and_Insurgents))
- **1922** — A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Southern_Rhodesian_government_referendum))
- **1924** — The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_Soviet_Socialist_Republic))
- **1930** — Ratifications are exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Naval_Treaty))
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdication_of_Edward_VIII))
- **1944** — World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1948** — A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Donora_smog))
- **1954** — Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.))
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskander_Mirza))
- **1961** — NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_I_SA-1))
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Anderson))
- **1962** — By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov))
- **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". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan))
- **1971** — The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Congolese_Republic))
- **1979** — Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines))
- **1980** — The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun_Doo-hwan))
- **1981** — Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War))
- **1986** — 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_(financial_markets)))
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States%2C_Moscow))
- **1991** — Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan))
- **1992** — 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Allen_R._Schindler_Jr.))
- **1993** — Widerøe Flight 744 crashes in Overhalla Municipality, Norway, killing six people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wider%C3%B8e_Flight_744))
- **1994** — Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_229))
- **1997** — The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis))
- **1999** — Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_parliament_shooting))
- **2014** — Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Herrick))
- **2017** — Catalonia declares independence from Spain. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia))
- **2018** — A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting))
- **2018** — Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_City_F.C.))
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State))

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## Notable births on October 27

- **1999** — **Haruka Kudo** — Japanese singer and actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka_Kud%C5%8D_(singer)))
- **1997** — **Lonzo Ball** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonzo_Ball))
- **1997** — **James TW** — English singer-songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_TW))
- **1996** — **Rasmus Andersson** — Swedish ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Andersson))
- **1996** — **Kim Woo-seok** — South Korean singer and actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Woo-seok_(singer)))
- **1995** — **Leon Draisaitl** — German ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Draisaitl))
- **1994** — **Rasmus Ristolainen** — Finnish ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasmus_Ristolainen))
- **1993** — **Troy Gentile** — American actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Gentile))
- **1993** — **Kiefer Ravena** — Filipino basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiefer_Ravena))
- **1992** — **Stephan El Shaarawy** — Italian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_El_Shaarawy))

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## Notable deaths on October 27

- **2025** — **Prunella Scales** — English actress (born 1932) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunella_Scales))
- **2023** — **Li Keqiang** — premier of China (born 1955) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang))
- **2019** — **Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi** — leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (born 1971) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi))
- **2018** — **Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha** — Thai businessman, chairman of Leicester City F.C. (born 1958) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichai_Srivaddhanaprabha))
- **2016** — **Takahito** — Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (born 1915) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahito%2C_Prince_Mikasa))
- **2015** — **Ayerdhal** — French author (born 1959) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayerdhal))
- **2015** — **Ranjit Roy Chaudhury** — Indian pharmacologist and academic (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjit_Roy_Chaudhury))
- **2015** — **Betsy Drake** — French-American actress and singer (born 1923) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Drake))
- **2015** — **Philip French** — English journalist, critic, and producer (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_French))
- **2014** — **Daniel Boulanger** — French actor and screenwriter (born 1922) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boulanger))

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