Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 27 throughout history.
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Da'esh, is a transnati…
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by…
On October 27, 2018, an antisemitic mass shooting occurred at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. …
A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing eleven and injuring six, including four police officers.
Leicester City Football Club is a professional football club based in Leicester, East Midlands, England. The club competes in EFL League One, the third tier of English football.
Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier…
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy. Its territory is situated on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the …
Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
Operation Herrick was the operational name for the British Armed Forces' operations during the War in Afghanistan, from 2002 to the end of combat operations in 2014. It consisted …
Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
The 1999 Armenian parliament shooting, commonly known in Armenia as October 27, was an attack on the Armenian National Assembly in the capital of Yerevan on 27 October 1999 by a g…
Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
A financial crisis gripped much of East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. It began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effec…
The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Gliese 229 is a multiple system composed of a red dwarf and two brown dwarfs, located 18.8 light-years away. It is the nearest star system in the constellation Lepus. The primary …
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
Widerøe Flight 744, also known as the Namsos Accident, was a scheduled flight of Widerøes Flyveselskap from Trondheim Airport, Værnes, via Namsos, to Rørvik Airport, Ryumsjøen, No…
Widerøe Flight 744 crashes in Overhalla Municipality, Norway, killing six people.
Allen R. Schindler Jr. was an American radioman petty officer third class in the United States Navy who was murdered for being gay. He was killed in a public toilet in Sasebo, Nag…
United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay,…
Turkmenistan, formely known as Turkmenia, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to the north, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the so…
Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Russian Federation. The current embassy compound is in the P…
Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the…
The phrase Big Bang, used in reference to the sudden deregulation of financial markets, was coined to describe measures, including abolition of fixed commission charges and of the…
The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which…
The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc…
Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
Chun Doo-hwan was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the fifth President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. A member of the military, he ruled the country as …
The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent, is an archipelagic country in the eastern Caribbean. It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of …
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
The Republic of the Congo or First Congolese Republic, formerly the Belgian Congo and now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was a state in Central Africa that gained in…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an i…
Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech…
Rudolf Anderson Jr. was an American Air Force major and pilot. He was the first recipient of the Air Force Cross, the U.S. military's and Air Force's second-highest award and deco…
Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile…
Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov, also transliterated as Vasili Arkhipov, was a vice admiral in the Soviet Navy. He is best remembered for preventing nuclear war during the Cuban Mi…
By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.