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- 0312 Constantine the Great receives his famous Vision of the Cross.
- 0625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0710 Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
- 0939 Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
- 1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
- 1524 Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
- 1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1644 Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
- 1775 US Navy established
- 1776 A Danish fort in the Virgin Islands becomes the first foreign nation to salute the U.S. flag when it recognizes a U.S. schooner.
- 1787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
- 1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
- 1806 Napoleon occupies Berlin October 27 and proclaims a paper blockade of Britain November 21
- 1806 The French Army enters in Berlin.
- 1807 Occupation of Portugal by French-Spanish troops.
- 1810 US annexes West Florida from Spain
- 1810 United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 1829 The first U.S. patent for a baby carriage is issued.
- 1838 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
- 1858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
- 1870 Marshal Franois Achille Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers in one of the biggest French defeats of the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
- 1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday
- 1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
- 1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
- 1896 The first Pali Road completed in Hawaii
- 1904 New York City unveils the first electric subway, the IRT, linking the Brooklyn Bridge to midtown Manhattan.
- 1904 World's 1st subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel
- 1916 Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
- 1916 HMS Nubian, a tribal Class Royal Navy destroyer. Hit by a torpedo from a German destroyer which destroyed the fore part of the ship.
- 1916 The first published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
- 1918 Major William G. Barker Cdn. (Royal air Force) wins the Victoria Cross for service over France
- 1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
- 1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
- 1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
- 1922 A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
- 1922 The first commemoration of Navy Day
- 1924 The Uzbek SSR forms
- 1924 The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
- 1936 Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
- 1938 The DuPont company changes the world forever with the introduction of its new synthetic yarn: "nylon."
- 1941 An editorial in the Chicago Daily Tribune downplays the possibility of a US war with Japan, stating "Even our base at Hawaii is beyond the effective power of her fleet."
- 1944 Antwerp port is taken by the Allies.
- 1946 First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
- 1947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
- 1947 Groucho Marx hosts the radio premiere of You Bet Your Life, on ABC radio. (When the show later moved to TV, it jumped ship to NBC.)
- 1947 Visitor posting - Elaine Joanne Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pa, USA
- 1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
- 1948 Lopold Sdar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
- 1949 An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
- 1954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
- 1954 Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 1954 Walt Disney premieres his first series, Disneyland, on ABC, while his theme park is still under construction.
- 1958 Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'tat by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
- 1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
- 1961 American Basketball League starts play
- 1961 Berlin Crisis. 3 armored divisions of Soviet tanks surround Berlin, Isolating French, British and American forces.
- 1961 NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
- 1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN
- 1961 The first Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
- 1962 Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- 1962 The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
- 1964 Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
- 1965 Visitor posting - Nted author and political philosopher Gregor D Toledo was born in New Jersey - USA
- 1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There
- 1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
- 1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada.
- 1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
- 1969 St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
- 1970 Louis Nel receives the Nobel Prize.
- 1971 Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
- 1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
- 1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
- 1973 Number one hit on UK music charts - David Cassidy - Daydreamer / The Puppy Song
- 1973 The Canon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1978 Begin & Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
- 1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
- 1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Lena Martell - One Day At A Time
- 1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
- 1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
- 1981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- 1981 The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
- 1982 Visitor posting - Billie Jo Desiree Muirhead born to Brenda (Kenney) & Robert Muirhead. - USA
- 1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
- 1982 Visitor posting - katherine born - USA
- 1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
- 1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
- 1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
- 1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
- 1990 Number one hit on UK music charts - Beautiful South - A Little Time
- 1990 Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
- 1991 First free legislative elections in Poland since 1936.
- 1991 Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Adam Bowater Was Born!!! - United Kingdom
- 1993 Visitor posting - Sarah Katherine Goss was born at Bitburg AB in Germany as a U.S. citizen!!!!!!!
- 1995 Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is condemned in absentia for corruption.
- 1995 Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Melissa L. was born - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Tatyana was given birth. - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - Katie Roman born
- 1996 Visitor posting - Justin Michael E was born, God bless him. - USA
- 1997 October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Cody Thomas as born!!!!!!!!!!!! - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Krista A. Berns was given life ______4 Days beFore Halloween wat a trick or treat suprise
- 1998 Gerhard Schrder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
- 1998 Visitor posting - Emma Jones was born
- 2002 The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
- 2002 Trades unionist Luiz Incio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
- 2005 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Caleb Olivares, my boogie bear entered our lives! - USA
- 2009 A British couple are missing after their yacht is hijacked by Somali pirates off the Seychelles.
- 2009 A nephew of Honduran interim leader Robert Micheletti and a high ranking army officer are found murdered.
- 2009 A report by the Australian government warns that global warming climate change threatens the coastal lifestyle of the country, with a prospect of a ban on coastal homes.
- 2009 Authorities in Venezuela arrest a number of people accused of being secret service agents from neighbouring Colombia, on charges of espionage.
- 2009 Burundi and Uganda tighten security after threats by the militant Somali Al-Shabaab, a group with links to Al-Qaeda, to attack their capitals.
- 2009 China confirms it has executed 2 Tibetans over unrest last year.
- 2009 Grassroots occupations of Austrian universities spread to several more in Vienna, Graz and Linz, demanding free education for everyone.
- 2009 NASA announces a delay in the launch of the Ares I-X test rocket, developed to replace the space shuttle, due to poor weather conditions.
- 2009 North Korea says a South Korean man has defected to the North across the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
- 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appoints Cardinal Peter Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana, to serve as the new head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
- 2009 Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva backs autonomy for the restive southern provinces to bring an end to violence in the region.
- 2009 Qatar inaugurates one of the world's largest LNG trains, operated by RasGas.
- 2009 The Church of Scientology in France is convicted of organised fraud.
- 2009 The autonomous Aceh province in Indonesia is to ban women from wearing tight trousers under a new law, while a law authorising the stoning to death of adulterers and the whipping of homosexuals will be reviewed.
- 2009 The son of ex-French President François Mitterrand, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and an ex-government minister, Charles Pasqua, are convicted for their roles in illegal arms sales to Angola.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Abram Guhr born - USA
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