SomeFacts | October 27

On this day - October 27

312 — Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous ...

1275 — Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.

1524 — French troops lay siege to Pavia.

1553 — Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the ...

1644 — Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.

1674 — The French garrison in Grave surrenders the town to a Dutch ...

1682 — Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

1726 — J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Ich will den ...

1775 — King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in ...

1795 — The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which ...

1806 — The French Army under Napoleon enters Berlin following the ...

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

1838 — Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination ...

1863 — American Civil War: Union forces led by General William F. ...

1870 — Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian ...

1907 — Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when gendarmes opened ...

1914 — World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk ...

1916 — Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of ...

1919 — The Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and ...

1922 — A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation ...

1924 — The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

1930 — Ratifications are exchanged in London for the first London ...

1936 — Abdication Crisis: Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, ...

1944 — World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during ...

1948 — A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually ...

1954 — Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American ...

1958 — Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by ...

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

1962 — By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a ...

1962 — Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes ...

1964 — Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican ...

1971 — The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

1979 — Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from ...

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

1986 — The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, ...

1988 — Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. ...

1991 — Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.

1992 — United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is ...

1993 — Widerøe Flight 744 crashes in Overhalla Municipality, Norway, ...

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

1997 — The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow ...

1999 — Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime ...

2014 — Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation ...

2017 — Catalonia declares independence from Spain.

2018 — Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a ...

2018 — A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven ...

2019 — Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu ...