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October 27October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. Events 600-1899 1900-1999 - 1904 - First New York City subway line opens; system becomes biggest in United States of America, and one of biggest in world.
- 1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
- 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
- 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
- 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
- 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.
- 1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ends peacefully.
- 1973 - The Canyon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite struck earth in Fremont County, Colorado.
- 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 ran aground on the east coast of Sweden.
- 1986 - The London Stock Exchange is deregulated and computerisation is introduced for the first time.
- 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
- 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1993 - Fires in five counties in southern California destroy more than 500 homes and cause an estimate 1 billion USD of damage within a week.
- 1995 - Latvia applies for membership of the European Union.
- 1997 - The California Medical Board announces its investigation of Hollywood plastic surgeon Steve Hoefflin, who is accused of "fondling, disrobing, photographing and ridiculing his anaesthesized patients" by former employees. The probe is eventually dropped after Hoefflin pays his former employees an undisclosed sum.
- 1998 - Gerhard Schrder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
- 1999 - Armenian Prime Minister Vasgen Sarkissian and 6 other members killed in an attack on the Armenian parliament.
2000-2099 Births 1400-1899 1900-1999 - 1918 Teresa Wright American actress
- 1931 - Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian writer
- 1932 - Sylvia Plath, poet
- 1939 - John Cleese, British actor, writer, and Monty Python member
- 1940 - John Gotti, New York mafia boss
- 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, writer
- 1958 - Simon Le Bon, musician, Duran Duran
- 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, documentary filmmaker
- 1982 - Stephen Wolowitz, student New Jersey City University
Deaths 900-1899 1900-1999 - 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French world champion boxer (b. 1916)
- 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
- 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician
- 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
- 1975 - Rex Stout, novelist
- 1977 - James M. Cain, novelist
- 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, Singer/Song writer
- 1990 - Elliot Roosevelt, advertising executive
- 1990 - Xavier Cugat, musician
- 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, actor
2000-2099 Holidays Recorded this date - 1903 "Silver Threads Among The Gold" (w. Eben E. Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks)
- Richard Jose
- 1911 "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" (w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt)
- Christie MacDonald & Lyric Quartette with O/Magee
- 1911 "There's A Girl In Havana" (w. Irving Berlin & E. Ray Goetz m. A. Baldwin Sloane)
- Beulah Young & Henry Burr
- 1913 "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
- Lillian Davis
- 1913 "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" (w.m Harry Gifford, Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor)
- Harry Macdonough & Marguerite Dunlap
- 1916 "A Broken Doll" (w.m. James W. Tate & Clifford Harris)
- Nora Bayes with O/Rosario Bourdon
- 1916 "When John McCormack Sings A Song" (w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz)
- Nora Bayes
- 1921 "When Buddha Smiles" (w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown)
- Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra
- 1922 "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" (w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball)
- Peter Dawson
- 1922 "Rolling Down To Rio" (w. Rudyard Kipling m. German)
- Peter Dawson
- 1922 "Drake Goes West" (Sanderson)
- Peter Dawson
- 1925 "Sweet Man" (w. Roy Turk m. Maceo Pinkard)
- Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1925 "Sleepy Time Gal" (w. Joseph R. Alden & Raymond B. Egan m. Ange Lorenzo & Richard A. Whiting)
- Lewis James
- 1925 "Just A Cottage Small (By A Waterfall)" (w. B. G. De Sylva m. James F. Hanley)
- John McCormack
- 1926 "Because I Love You" (w.m. Irving Berlin)
- Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1927 "Up In The Clouds" (w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby)
- Franklyn Baur with Harry Archer & his Orchestra
- 1930 "Gorgonzola"
- Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
- 1930 "I'm Twenty-One Today" (Kendal)
- Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra
- 1930 "Pick Up Tha' Musket"
- Stanley Holloway with piano Wolseley Charles
- 1930 "They Cut Down The Old Pine Tree" (w.m. Edward Eliscu, Billy Hill & Willie Raskin)
- Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
- 1930 "The Face On The Bar-Room Floor" (w. Maurice De Witt m. Leonard Hope)
- Len Maurice (as Art Leonard)
- 1930 "There's Something About An Old-Fashioned Girl" (w.m. Lew Brown, B. G. De Sylva & Ray Henderson)
- Pat O'Malley w. chorus with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
- 1930 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
- Pat O'Malley with Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
- 1932 "Let's Call It A Day" (w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson)
- Frank Marvin with Arden-Ohman Orchestra
- 1932 "Please" (w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger)
- Rudy Vallee
- 1932 "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney)
- Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees
- 1933 "My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" (w.m. Harry Woods & Claude Hurlburt)
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1933 "Thanks" (w. Sam Coslow m. Arthur Johnston)
- Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & his Orchestra
- 1938 "Do You Wanna Jump Children?" (w.m. James Van Heusen, Willie Bryant & Victor Selsman)
- Cab Calloway
- 1939 "I'll Remember" (Rich, Connelly)
- Cyril Grantham with Geraldo & his Orchestra
- 1939 "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Evelyn Dove with Billy Cotton & his Band
- 1941 "I Hate You, Darling" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Buddy Clark
- 1941 "Ev'rything I Love" (w.m. Cole Porter)
- Buddy Clark
- 1941 "Ev'ry Time" (w.m. Ralph Blane & Hugh Martin)
- Buddy Clark
- 1943 "My Ideal" (w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase)
- Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
- 1943 "When They Ask About You" (w.m. Sam H. Stept)
- Kitty Kallen with Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra
- 1944 "Right As The Rain" (w. E. Y. Harburg m. Harold Arlen)
- Celeste Holm & David Brooks
- 1947 "Bluegrass Breakdown"
- Bill Monroe
- 1950 "It Is No Secret" (w.m. Stuart Hamblen)
- Ink Spots
- 1950 "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (w.m. Al Hoffman, Walter Kent & Mann Curtis)
- Frankie Laine w. Conlon Singers with O/Harry Geller
- 1951 "Charmaine" (w.m. Erno Rapee & Lew Pollack)
- Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra
- 1953 "Not Since Nineveh" (w. & m. adapt Robert Wright & George Forrest)
- Danny Kaye with O/Sonny Burke
- 1958 "Green Christmas" (Stan Freberg)
- Stan Freberg featuring Daws Butler as Cratchet with Marvin Miller and Wil Wright & Jud Conlon chorale with Billy May & his Music
- 1959 "Young Emotions" (w. Mack David m. Jerry Livingston)
- Ricky Nelson
- 1960 "Spanish Harlem" (w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller)
- Ben E. King
- 1960 "Stand By Me" (King, Leiber, Stoller)
- Ben E. King with O/Stan Applebaum
External links
October 26 - October 28 - November 27 - September 27 - more historical anniversaries
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