Today In History - October 27

625 Honorius I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope
1775 The US Navy is established
1787 The Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1795 The Treaty of San Lorenzo provides free navigation of Mississippi
1810 The US annexes West Florida from Spain
1858 RH Macy and Company opens its first store: 6th Avenue in New York City
1880 President (to be) Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee on his 22nd birthday
1893 A hurricane hits the US coast between Savannah, GA and Charleston, SC
1896 The first Pali Road is completed in Hawaii
1904 The world's first subway opens in New York City: the IRT (Inter-borough Rapid Transit)
1916 The first published reference to "jazz" music appears: Variety Magazine
1919 The 'Axeman' of New Orleans claims last victim
1920 The League of Nations moves its headquarters in Geneva
1922 The first commemoration of Navy Day
1925 Water skis are patented by Fred Waller
1938 DuPont announces that its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
1941 The Chicago Daily Tribune editorializes that there will not be war with Japan
1947 "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio
1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
1954 B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first black general in USAF
1954 Walt Disney's first TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1959 A rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 people in Western Mexico
1961 The first Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 The American Basketball League starts play
1961 Outer Mongolia and Mauritania become the 102nd and 103rd members of the UN
1967 Four people from Baltimore pour blood on their selective service records
1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization called "Nader's Raiders"
1969 St. Vincent and the Grenadines gain associated status with Britain
1971 The Republic of the Congo becomes the Republic of Zaire
1971 Steve Garvey marries Cynthia Truhan
1972 The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is created
1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 Begin and Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
1978 President Carter signs the Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1979 The Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes a how-to suicide guide
1981 Andrew Young, the former UN Ambassador, is elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1982 China announces its population is at 1 billion+ people
1982 IBM announces its ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings including: 5 by Monet and 2 by Renoir
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1988 "ET" is released to home video: 14 million were PRESOLD
1988 Larry Flynt paid a hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione, and Sinatra
1990 Elliott Roosevelt, the son of FDR, dies at age 80

1728 James Cook
1739 Franz Ignaz Kaa
1746 Georg Anton Kreusser
1775 Traugott Maximilian Eberwein
1782 Niccolo Paganini
1800 Benjamin Franklin Wade
1809 Peter "Peerke" Donders
1811 Issac Merrit Singer
1817 Antoni Katski
1828 Jacob Dolson Cox
1829 Christopher Columbus Andres
1841 P. J. Edvard Backstrom
1842 Giovanni Giolitti
1844 Klas Arnoldson
1845 Josef V. Sladek
1858 Theodore Roosevelt
1872 Emily Post
1873 Henry Tate
1876 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg
1889 Enid Bagnold
1892 Graciliano Ramos
1892 Victor E. van Vriesland
1893 Johan G. Dancer
1894 Antonius "Toon" Verhey
1894 Fritz Sauckel
1895 John Boles
1896 Edith Haisman
1901 Marlene Dietrich
1906 Anton Struyken
1907 Helmut Walcha
1910 Fred de Cordova
1910 Jack Carson
1911 Leif Erickson
1912 Conlon Nancarrow
1914 Dylan Thomas
1914 Stanislaw Brunstein
1915 Harry Saltzman
1916 Bob de Lange
1916 Kazimierz Brandys
1917 Jack Plimsoll
1917 Oliver Tambo
1918 Paul Dixon
1918 Teresa Wright
1920 Nanette Fabray
1921 Anestis Logothetis
1922 Carlos Andres Perez
1922 George Young
1922 Ralph Kiner
1923 Roy Lichtenstein
1923 Ruby Dee
1924 Michel Galabru
1925 Jane Connell
1925 Mary Kay Steans
1925 Warren M. Christopher
1926 H. R. Haldeman
1928 Kyle Rote
1928 Stefan Wewerka
1929 Marino Iandioro
1930 Bill George
1931 David Bryant
1932 Jean-Pierre Cassel
1932 Kathy Cornelius
1932 Sylvia Plath
1933 Floyd Cramer
1933 John Sturdy
1934 David Barclay
1938 Maurice Hinchey
1939 John Cleese
1940 Anthea Joseph
1940 John Gotti
1940 Lee Greenwood
1940 Maxine Hong Kingston
1942 Phillip Catherine
1945 Carrie Snodgress
1945 Peter Martins
1946 Leslie Byrne
1946 Peter Martins
1946 Terry J. Hart
1947 Terry Anderson
1948 Byron Allred
1949 Jack Daniels
1950 Fran Lebowitz
1951 Jayne Kennedy-Overton
1951 K. K. Downing
1952 Roberto Benigni
1953 Michael Baker
1953 Peter Firth
1953 Robert Picardo
1954 Chris Tavare
1956 Patty Sheehan
1957 Glen Hoddle
1957 Glenn Hoddle
1957 Jeff East
1958 Hazell Dean
1958 Simon Le Bon
1961 Rick Gibson
1963 Deborah Moore
1963 Marla Maples
1964 Jill Hetherington
1964 Mark Taylor
1964 Mary Meagher-Plant
1965 Krista Blomquist
1966 Brad Lauer
1966 Grant Kenny
1966 Timm Rosenbach
1967 Jaren Jackson
1968 Antoinette Lucas
1968 Kata Karkkainen
1969 Annie Patterson
1969 Corey Foster
1969 John Kasay
1970 Bert Emanuel
1970 Vernon Lewis
1971 Liz Pagano
1971 Matt Brown
1971 Mike Ricci
1972 Maria Mutola
1973 Alison "Ali" Malyn Shumate
1973 Monica Louwerens
1974 Juan Viedna Schenkhuizen
1975 Emily John Orton