This day in Histroy – October 27

• 625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

• 1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

• 1553 Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.

• 1605 Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk.

• 1651 English troops occupy Limerick, Ireland.

• 1676 Poland and Turkey sign Peace of Warsaw.

• 1780 Samuel Williams and the first U.S. astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun observes the event at Penobscot Bay.

• 1795 Pinckney’s Treaty [Treaty of San Lorenzo] signed by Spain and US, establishing the southern boundary of the US and giving Americans right to navigate the Mississippi River.

• 1830 Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution).

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

• 1864 Confederate ship Albemarle torpedoed and sunk by a spar torpedo mounted on a steam launch.

• 1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah, Georgia & Charleston, South Carlolina.

• 1901 1st complete performance of Debussy’s “Nocturnes”.

• 1904 First section of New York subway – Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem, opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), fare one nickel.

• 1917 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York, US.

• 1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim.

• 1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva.

• 1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller.

• 1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called “nylon”.

• 1941 Nazi’s direct gypsy ghetto in Belgrade.

• 1947 “You Bet Your Life” with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio.

• 1954 President Eisenhower offers aid to South Vietnam Prime Minister Ngô ?ình Di?m.

• 1954 Walt Disney’s first TV show, “Disneyland”, premieres on ABC.

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

• 1955 “Rebel Without a Cause”, directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, is released.

• 1958 General Ayub Khan succeeds Iskander Mirza as President of Pakistan.

• 1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico.

• 1960 Singer Ben E King records “Spanish Harlem” and “Stand By Me”.

• 1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become 102nd and 103rd members of UN.

• 1962 Black Saturday – Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba.

• 1962 The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian oil industry’s most powerful figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances.

• 1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans and 800 Belgians.

• 1966 UN deprives South Africa of Namibia.

• 1968 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico.

• 1971 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire.

• 1971 Gerard Newe becomes the first Catholic to serve in any Northern Ireland government since 1920; Newe was appointed to try to improve community relations.

• 1979 St Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of UK (National Day).

• 1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide.

• 1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph.

• 1985 Hurricane Juan ravages US Gulf states & east coast, 49 die.

• 1985 Thieves steal nine paintings, including five Monets and two Renoirs.

• 1988 “ET” released to home video (14 million presold).

• 1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione and Sinatra.

• 1992 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of JRR Tolkien.

• 1999 Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, Parliament Chairman Karen Demirchyan, and 6 other members.

•2005 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

• 2011 The Royal Australian Navy announces that they discovered the wreck of a World War II submarine in Simpson Harbour, Papua New Guinea during Operation RENDER SAFE – it is likely to be Japanese.

• 2012 46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs.

• 2012 Thousands demonstrate in Madrid against proposed budget cuts.

• 2013 38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq.

• 2013 18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

• 2013 Giorgi Margvelashvili wins the Georgian Presidential election in a landslide victory.

• 2016 6.6-magnitude quake hits central Italy – strongest earthquake in Italy for 36 years.

Source: www.onthisday.com