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This day in history: 27 October

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408 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 27 October.
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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.

Holidays and observances

Černová Tragedy Day (Slovakia)

Christian feast day: Abbán

Christian feast day: Abraham the Poor

Christian feast day: Frumentius (Roman Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Gaudiosus of Naples

Christian feast day: Kaleb of Axum

Christian feast day: Namatius (Namace)

Christian feast day: October 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Oran of Iona

Flag Day (Greece)

Independence Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), celebrates the independence of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from United Kingdom in 1979.

International Religious Freedom Day (United States)

Events

2019Islamic 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.

2018A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers.

2018Leicester 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.

2017Catalonia declares independence from Spain.

2014Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.

1999Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.

1997The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

1994Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.

1993Widerøe Flight 744 crashes in Overhalla Municipality, Norway, killing six people.

1992United 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.

1991Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.

1988Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

1986The 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.

1981Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

1980The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.

1979Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

1971The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

1964Ronald 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".

1962By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.

1962Major 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.

1961NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

1958Iskander 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.

1954Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.

1948A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands.

1944World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.

1936Abdication 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.

1930Ratifications 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.

1924The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

1922A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.

1919The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Oleksandrivsk.

1916Negus 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.

1914World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.

1913A rail workers' strike in Chile escalates into a general strike, organized by the Regional Workers' Federation of Chile.

1907Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when gendarmes opened fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.

1870Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

1863American 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.

1838Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.

1810United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

1806The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.

1795The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.

Born on this day

1999Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress

1997James TW, English singer-songwriter

1997Lonzo Ball, American basketball player

1996Kim Woo-seok, South Korean singer and actor

1996Rasmus Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player

1995Leon Draisaitl, German ice hockey player

1994Rasmus Ristolainen, Finnish ice hockey player

1993Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player

1993Troy Gentile, American actor

1992Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player

1992Daniel Sams, Australian cricketer

1992Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1992Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer

1991Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer

1990Alex Bentley, American-Belarusian basketball player

1990Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer

1990Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer

1989Mark Barron, American football player

1988Brady Ellison, American archer

1988Evan Turner, American basketball player

1988Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper

1988Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer

1987Andrew Bynum, American basketball player

1987Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete

1987Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player

1987Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer

1986Anna Cruz, Spanish basketball player

1986Chris Butler, American ice hockey player

1986Christine Evangelista, American actress

1986Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player

1986David Warner, Australian cricketer

1986Jon Niese, American baseball player

1986Lou Williams, American basketball player

1986Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer

1985Alex Soros, American investor and philanthropist

1985Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete

1984Brady Quinn, American football player

1984Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress

1984Kelly Osbourne, English television personality

1984Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer

Died on this day

2025Prunella Scales, English actress (born 1932)

2023Li Keqiang, premier of China (born 1955)

2019Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (born 1971)

2018Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman, chairman of Leicester City F.C. (born 1958)

2016Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (born 1915)

2015Ayerdhal, French author (born 1959)

2015Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (born 1923)

2015Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (born 1933)

2015Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (born 1930)

2014Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (born 1922)

2014Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (born 1968)

2014Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (born 1922)

2013Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1931)

2013Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1942)

2013Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1928)

2013Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (born 1940)

2013Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (born 1945)

2013Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (born 1954)

2012Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (born 1952)

2012Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (born 1944)

2012Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (born 1926)

2012Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (born 1952)

2012Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (born 1923)

2012Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)

2011James Hillman, American psychologist and author (born 1926)

2011Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (born 1926)

2010Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (born 1950)

2009August Coppola, American author and academic (born 1934)

2009David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (born 1940)

2009John David Carson, American actor (born 1952)

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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

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