Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: October 27
October 27, 2024 is the 301st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Scorpio is your zodiac sign. Opal is your modern birthstone. Jasper is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: October 27
- 1553 –Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
- 1810 –United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
- 1870 –Marshal François 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.
- 1916 –Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
- 1924 –The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
- 1930 –ratifications exchanged in London, for the first London Naval Treaty signed in April modifying the 1925 Washington Naval Treaty and the arms limitation treaty’s modified provisions go into effect immediately; further limiting the expensive naval arms race between its five signatories.
- 1944 –World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
- 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 in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
- 1988 –Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
- 1994 –The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
Who were born on October 27?
- 1156 –Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
- 1925 –Warren Christopher, American diplomat and 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
- 1932 –Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
- 1934 –Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director
- 1946 –Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
- 1949 –Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
- 1950 –Július Šupler, Slovak ice-hockey coach
- 1952 –Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher
- 1956 –Babis Tsertos, Greek singer and musician
- 1978 –Stephanie Abrams, American meteorologist
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