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October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 312 – Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.
• 710 – Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
• 939 – Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
• 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
• 1524 – Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
• 1553 – Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
• 1644 – Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
• 1682 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
• 1795 – The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1806 – The French Army enters Berlin.
• 1810 – United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
• 1838 – Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
• 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.
• 1904 – The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
• 1914 – World War I: The British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400 tons), is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
• 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.
• 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
• 1924 – The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
• 1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.
• 1953 – British nuclear test Totem 2 is carried out at Emu Field, South Australia.
• 1954 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• 1958 – Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• 1961 – NASA launches the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• 1961 – Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations.
• 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.
• 1962 – A plane carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
• 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
• 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
• 1973 – The Cañon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite, strikes in Fremont County, Colorado.
• 1981 – The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• 1986 – The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
• 1991 – Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
• 1994 – The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history.
• 1994 – Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
• 1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
• 1995 – Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
• 1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activates its "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
• 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.
• 2005 – The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

Births

• 1156 – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
• 1401 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
• 1466 – Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
• 1728 – James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
• 1744 – Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
• 1760 – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
• 1782 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
• 1811 – Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
• 1811 – Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
• 1814 – Daniel H. Wells, Mormon leader and politician (d. 1891)
• 1838 – John Davis Long, 32^nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
• 1842 – Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
• 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
• 1854 – Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
• 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
• 1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
• 1869 – Viola Allen, actress, (d. 1948)
• 1873 – Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
• 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1885 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
• 1894 – Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
• 1896 – Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
• 1904 – Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (d. 1974)
• 1906 – Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer
• 1908 – Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
• 1910 – Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
• 1911 – Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Joe Medicine Crow, American tribal historian and anthropologist
• 1914 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
• 1915 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
• 1917 – Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
• 1918 – Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Nanette Fabray, American actress
• 1920 – K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
• 1922 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Michel Galabru, French actor
• 1922 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
• 1924 – Ruby Dee, American actress
• 1925 – Warren Christopher, US diplomat (1993–1997)
• 1926 – H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
• 1928 – Gilles Vigneault, Canadian poet, singer and songwriter
• 1929 – Maurice Robert Johnston, English Lieutenant-General
• 1931 – Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
• 1932 – Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
• 1932 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
• 1934 – Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor and director
• 1937 – Lara Parker, American actress
• 1939 – John Cleese, British actor and writer
• 1940 – John Gotti, American free trader (d. 2002)
• 1940 – Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
• 1941 – Dick Trickle, American auto racer
• 1942 – Lee Greenwood, American singer
• 1943 – Carmen Argenziano, American actor
• 1943 – Jerry Rook, American basketball player
• 1945 – Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
• 1945 – John Kane, actor/writer
• 1946 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1946 – Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
• 1949 – Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
• 1949 – Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
• 1950 – Fran Lebowitz, American writer
• 1951 – K.K. Downing, English guitarist (Judas Priest)
• 1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
• 1951 – Nancy Jacobs, American politician
• 1951 – Éric Morena, French singer
• 1952 – Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
• 1952 – Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
• 1952 – Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer
• 1953 – Peter Firth, British actor
• 1953 – Robert Picardo, American actor
• 1954 – Jan Duursema, American comic book artist
• 1955 – Debra Bowen, American politician
• 1956 – Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer
• 1956 – Veronica Hart, American porn actress
• 1957 – Jeff East, American actor
• 1957 – Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
• 1958 – Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
• 1958 – Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
• 1959 – Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
• 1960 – Tom Nieto, American baseball player
• 1963 – Marla Maples, American actress and model
• 1963 – Farin Urlaub, German singer and guitarist (Die Ärzte)
• 1964 – Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
• 1966 – Matt Drudge, American blogger
• 1966 – Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (d. 2007)
• 1967 – Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer
• 1967 – Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
• 1968 – Vinny Samways, English footballer
• 1970 – Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer
• 1970 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
• 1970 – Alama Ieremia, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1971 – Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
• 1971 – Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
• 1971 – Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
• 1972 – Lee Clark, English footballer
• 1972 – Elissa, Lebanese singer
• 1972 – Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
• 1972 – Brad Radke, American baseball player
• 1972 – Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
• 1972 – Maria de Lurdes Mutola, Mozambican athlete
• 1973 – Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
• 1975 – Zadie Smith, British novelist
• 1975 – Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby union player and coach
• 1977 – Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
• 1977 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978 – Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
• 1978 – Stephanie Abrams, on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel
• 1980 – Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
• 1981 – Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
• 1982 – Patrick Fugit, American actor
• 1982 – Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
• 1982 – Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
• 1983 – Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
• 1983 – Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 – Bam Doyne, American basketball player
• 1984 – Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
• 1984 – Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
• 1984 – Brady Quinn, American football player
• 1986 – Matty Pattison, English footballer
• 1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
• 1987 – Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
• 1987 – Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (birth date disputed)
• 1989 – Erik Kloeker, American juggler
• 1994 – Eddie Alderson, American actor
• 1995 – Cooper Pillot, American actor

Deaths

• 939 – King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
• 1271 – Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (b. 1213)
• 1312 – John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
• 1327 – Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
• 1331 – Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
• 1430 – Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
• 1439 – Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
• 1449 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
• 1505 – Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
• 1553 – Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
• 1561 – Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
• 1573 – Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
• 1605 – Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (b. 1542)
• 1617 – Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1670 – Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
• 1674 – Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
• 1675 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
• 1789 – John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
• 1917 – Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
• 1935 – E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
• 1942 – Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
• 1947 – William Fay, Irish actor and theatre producer (b. 1872)
• 1949 – Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
• 1949 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
• 1953 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1962 – Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
• 1962 – Rudolf Anderson, United States Air Force pilot and officer (b. 1927)
• 1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
• 1975 – Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
• 1977 – James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1980 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
• 1990 – Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
• 1990 – Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
• 1990 – Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 1991 – George Barker, English poet (b. 1913)
• 1992 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
• 1996 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
• 2000 – Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
• 2002 – Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
• 2004 – Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
• 2006 – Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)
• 2009 – David Shepherd, English cricket umpire (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Turkmenistan – Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
• Feast-day of a number of Roman Catholic saints:
  • Abbán, early Irish saint in Munster and Leinster, associated with many other churches
  • St. Elesbaan
  • St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitious — fabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance. ~ T. H. Huxley

• selected by Kalki

2005

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. ~ Theodore Roosevelt (born 27 October 1858)

• proposed by AllanHainey

2006

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time. ~ Sylvia Plath (born 27 October 1932)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2007

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

• proposed by AllanHainey

2008

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold

• proposed by Zarbon

2009

Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
~ Dylan Thomas ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
  • used 5 February 2004, selected by Kalki

• Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
  • used 2 September 2005, selected by Kalki

• In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
  • used 12 July 2006, proposed by AllanHainey

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

When you meet the head of state in Great Britain, you only have to go down on one knee. ~ John Cleese, born that day

• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:47, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 06:16, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." ~ Theodore Roosevelt, born that day

• 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:47, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC) with very strong lean toward 4. 4 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC) I'm inclined to use this one this year in this fuller form despite having previously used the most commonly quoted portion of it a few years ago. 2 ~ Kalki 21:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC) but would prefer something else this year, as the major portion of this was just recently used last month (September 2005).
• 1 because I didn't know it had already been used. I personally love this quote because it's important to never be caught off guard and always be prepared. The message is one of my favorites, but the fact that the initial message was already used, I don't see the purpose of putting it up again, just for "I have always been fond of the West African proverb"...that part was duly taken out...it isn't the part that holds meaning and it's the entering, if you will, into the quote...I would normally have given this a 4, but since it was already used, I don't see the point. Zarbon 05:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The point of using the fuller quote is that the ending is rarely quoted and the statement is usually cited as one originating with TR himself, but in his earliest mentions of it, he clearly states it to be a proverb he himself had heard. I think that additional information is significant enough to emphasize in a quote of the day. ~ Kalki 15:36, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

I still don't think it's worth it until all other suggestions are used. Then we can think about the actual reusing of quotes already used just for missing portions. The portion that was left out isn't really important to begin with for this specific quote. The message of the quote comes from the portion that was already used. - Zarbon 12:40, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

If others cannot agree that this quote is one of the best, and rank it a 4, I would prefer to use : "No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency." ~ Theodore Roosevelt, suggested below, and would be willing to rank that a 4. The nazi quote currently ranked 4 by 2 user names is one I find detestable. ~ Kalki 22:57, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

• 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ UDScott

No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, born that day

• 3 even if it's a little corny ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 20:59, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 07:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 4 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ~ Sylvia Plath (born October 27, 1932)

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. ~ Sylvia Plath

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 05:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off.
~ Sylvia Plath

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
~ Sylvia Plath

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:36, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain. ~ Fritz Sauckel (born October 27)

• 4 because under the worst conditions, one man can steer better than thousands. This is a nice dynamic comparison between the living conditions of that era and the job duty of a naval officer. Zarbon 16:56, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 209
• 0 Kalki 22:57, 26 October 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC) Though part of the statement is valid, the quote makes several deplorable presumptions, and is an authoritarian argument by one of the servants of one of the vilest regimes in human history. I cannot agree that this is acceptable as a quote of the day here.
• 0 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, for the corrected and extended version:

There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

• 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

A corrected version of this has now been sourced. Kalki 02:39, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

• 3 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

We needed someone who could play like the devil and sing like heaven. ~ Scott Weiland

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas

• 3 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides.
~ Dylan Thomas

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
~ Dylan Thomas

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

The more blessed she felt on earth, the more rarely she turned to heaven. ~ Zadie Smith

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down? ~ Desiderius Erasmus

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

War is sweet to them that know it not. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

• 3 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 This appears on the Erasmus page as a misattributed quote. - InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

As the actual author is Pindar, of whom we have no date of birth, I am still inclined to rank it at 3 or even 4 eventually, but with proper attribution. ~ Kalki 01:41, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

• 2 Zarbon 05:12, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
• 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:29, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

This has now been sourced. ~ Kalki 04:50, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

• 3 ~ UDScott 23:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

An attitude of moderation is apt to be misunderstood when passions are greatly excited and when victory is apt to rest with the extremists on one side or the other; yet I think it is in the long run the only wise attitude... ~ Theodore Roosevelt

• 3 Kalki 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

• 3 Kalki 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them. … If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

• 3 Kalki 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

• 3 Kalki 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

• 3 Kalki 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction. ~ Theodore Roosevelt with a lean toward 4.

• 3 Kalki 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in. The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God. ~ Dylan Thomas

• 3 Kalki 05:21, 19 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on October 27.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2006
  • Guild Wars: Nightfall for PC in North America
• 2005
  • Spartan: Total Warrior in Europe
  • Totsugeki! Famicom Wars (Battalion Wars) for the GameCube in Japan
• 2003
  • Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu for the Game Boy Advance in North America
• 1999
  • Final Fantasy VIII for the PlayStation in Europe

From Familypedia

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 65 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 312 - Constantine the Great receives his famous Vision of the Cross.
• 710 - Saracen invasion of Sardinia.
• 939 - Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.
• 1275 - Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
• 1524 - Italian Wars: The French troops lay siege to Pavia.
• 1553 - Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
• 1644 - Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
• 1682 - Philadelphia is founded.
• 1795 - The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
• 1806 - The French Army enters in Berlin.
• 1807 - Occupation of Portugal by French-Spanish troops.
• 1810 - United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
• 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
• 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.
• 1904 - The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in world.
• 1916 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
• 1922 - A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
• 1924 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• 1936 - Mrs Wallis Simpson filed for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
• 1946 - First commercially-sponsored television program airs (Geographically Speaking, sponsored by Bristol-Myers).
• 1948 - Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS).
• 1949 - An airliner flying from Paris to New York crashes near the Azores. Among the victims are violinist Ginette Neveu and boxer Marcel Cerdan.
• 1953 - British nuclear test Totem 2 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia.
• 1954 - Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
• 1958 - Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed in a bloodless coup d'état by General Ayub Khan, who was appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
• 1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
• 1962 - Major Rudolph Anderson of the United States Air Force became the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane was shot down in Cuba by a Soviet-supplied SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile.
• 1962 - The plane of Enrico Mattei, Italian industry's most relevant figure, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
• 1964 - Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
• 1970 - Louis Néel receives the Nobel Prize.
• 1971 - Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
• 1973 - The Canon City meteorite, a 1.4 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes in Fremont County.
• 1981 - The Soviet submarine U 137 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• 1986 - The United Kingdom government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
• 1990 - Supreme Soviet of Kirghiz SSR chooses Askar Akayev as republic's first president.
• 1991 - Turkmenistan achieved independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1991 - First free legislative elections in Poland since 1936.
• 1992 - United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask" military policy.
• 1995 - Latvia applies for membership in the European Union.
• 1995 - Former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is condemned in absentia for corruption.
• 1997 - October 27: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. For the first time, the New York Stock Exchange activated their "circuit breakers" twice during the day eventually making the controversial move of closing the Exchange early.
• 1998 - Gerhard Schröder becomes Chancellor of Germany for the first time.
• 2002 - Trades unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected as President of Brazil.
• 2002 - The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes.
• 2005 - Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

Births

• 1156 - Count Raymond VI of Toulouse (d. 1222)
• 1401 - Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (d. 1437)
• 1466 - Erasmus, Dutch humanist and theologian (d. 1536)
• 1728 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (d. 1779)
• 1744 - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
• 1760 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
• 1782 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
• 1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor (d. 1875)
• 1811 - Stevens Thomson Mason, first Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
• 1842 - Giovanni Giolitti, Italian statesman (d. 1928)
• 1844 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1916)
• 1854 - Sir William Smith, Scottish founder of the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
• 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1919)
• 1865 - Charles Spencelayh, English painter (d. 1958)
• 1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette author (d. 1960)
• 1877 - George Thompson, English cricketer (d. 1943)
• 1885 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (d. 1948)
• 1894 - Oliver Leese, British general (d. 1978)
• 1896 - Edith Brown, survivor of the Titanic (d. 1997)
• 1906 - Earle Cabell, American politician (d. 1975)
• 1910 - Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d. 1963)
• 1911 - Leif Erickson, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
• 1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 1953)
• 1915 - Harry Saltzman, American film producer (d. 1994)
• 1917 - Augustine Harris, British Bishop of Middlesbrough (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Oliver Tambo, South African freedom fighter (d. 1993)
• 1918 - Teresa Wright, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Nanette Fabray, American actress
• 1920 - K. R. Narayanan, 10th President of India
• 1921 - Warren Allen Smith, American encyclopedist
• 1922 - Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
• 1922 - Ralph Kiner, American baseball player
• 1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American artist (d. 1997)
• 1924 - Ruby Dee, American actress
• 1924 - Michel Galabru, French actor
• 1925 - Albert Medwin, American inventor
• 1925 - Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State (1993–1997)
• 1926 - H.R. Haldeman, American political personality (d. 1993)
• 1928 - Gilles Vigneault, Québécois poet, singer and songwriter
• 1931 - Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian writer
• 1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
• 1932 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
• 1933 - Floyd Cramer, American popular pianist (d. 1997)
• 1934 - Giorgos Konstadinou, Greek actor and director
• 1937 - Lara Parker, American actress
• 1939 - John Cleese, British actor and writer
• 1940 - John Gotti, American gangster (d. 2002)
• 1940 - Maxine Hong Kingston, American writer
• 1941 - Dick Trickle, American auto racer
• 1942 - Lee Greenwood, American singer
• 1945 - Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
• 1945 - John Kane, actor/writer
• 1946 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1946 - Ivan Reitman, Czechoslovakian-born Canadian film actor, producer and director
• 1949 - Garry Tallent, American bass player (E Street Band)
• 1949 - Clifford Antone, American businessman (d. 2006)
• 1950 - Fran Lebowitz, American writer
• 1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
• 1951 - K.K. Downing, British guitarist (Judas Priest)
• 1951 - Nancy Jacobs, American politician
• 1951 - Jayne Kennedy, American actress, model, and sportscaster
• 1952 - Hameed Haroon, Pakistani publisher
• 1952 - Roberto Benigni, Italian director and actor
• 1953 - Peter Firth, British actor
• 1953 - Robert Picardo, American actor
• 1955 - Debra Bowen, American politician
• 1956 - Veronica Hart, American porn actress
• 1957 - Jeff East, American actor
• 1957 - Glenn Hoddle, English footballer
• 1958 - Simon Le Bon, English singer (Duran Duran)
• 1958 - Lee Carter, Alabama Judge of the 25th Judicial Circuit
• 1960 - Tom Nieto, American baseball player
• 1963 - Marla Maples, American actress and model
• 1964 - Mark Taylor, Australian test cricket captain (1994-1999)
• 1967 - Scott Weiland, American singer (Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver)
• 1970 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer (Cradle of Filth)
• 1971 - Jade Arcade, American comics artist and writer
• 1971 - Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer
• 1971 - Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
• 1972 - Lee Clark, English footballer
• 1972 - Evan Coyne Maloney, American filmmaker
• 1972 - Brad Radke, American baseball player
• 1972 - Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea)
• 1972 - Maria Mutola, Mozambican athlete
• 1973 - Jason Johnson, American baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
• 1975 - Zadie Smith, British novelist
• 1977 - Jiří Jarosík, Czech footballer
• 1977 - Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978 - Vanessa-Mae, Singapore musician
• 1978 - Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1979 - Melanie Vallejo, Australian TV actress
• 1980 - Tanel Padar, Estonian singer
• 1980 - Cassia Riley, American model
• 1981 - Han Hye-jin, South Korean actress
• 1981 - Kristi Richards, Canadian freestyle skier
• 1982 - Patrick Fugit, American actor
• 1982 - Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
• 1982 - Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor
• 1982 - Keri Hilson, American singer
• 1984 - Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
• 1984 - Brady Quinn, American football player
• 1984 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
• 1986 - Matty Pattison, English footballer
• 1987 - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
• 1987 - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player

Deaths

• 939 - King Athelstan I of England (b. 895)
• 1271 - Hugh IV, French crusader (b. 1213)
• 1312 - John II (b. 1275)
• 1327 - Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1289)
• 1331 - Abu al-Fida, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
• 1430 - Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1350)
• 1439 - Albert II of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1397)
• 1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer (b. 1394)
• 1505 - Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
• 1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish theologian and doctor (burned at the stake) (b. 1511)
• 1561 - Lope de Aguirre, Spanish conquistador (b. 1510)
• 1573 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
• 1605 - Akbar, Jellaladin Mahommed, Mughal Emperor (born 1542)
• 1617 - Ralph Winwood, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1670 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
• 1674 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic poet (b. 1614)
• 1675 - Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician (b. 1602)
• 1789 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
• 1917 - Arthur Rhys Davids, English pilot (b. 1897)
• 1935 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
• 1942 - Helmuth Hubener, Youth Political Activist against the Hitler regime (b. 1925)
• 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (b. 1916)
• 1949 - Ginette Neveu, French violinist (b. 1919)
• 1953 - Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• 1962 - Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (b. 1906)
• 1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist (b. 1878)
• 1975 - Rex Stout, American novelist (b. 1886)
• 1977 - James M. Cain, American novelist (b. 1892)
• 1980 - Steve Peregrin Took, English singer and songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1980 - Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924)
• 1990 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish-born musician (b. 1900)
• 1990 - Princess Sophie von Hohenberg, daughter of assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1901)
• 1990 - Elliott Roosevelt, American war hero, author, and advertising executive (b. 1910)
• 1990 - Jacques Demy, French film director (b. 1931)
• 1990 - Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
• 1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (b. 1917)
• 1996 - Morey Amsterdam, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1996 - Arthur Tremblay, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
• 1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist (b. 1927)
• 1999 - Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
• 2000 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
• 2002 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (b. 1925)
• 2003 - Rod Roddy, American television announcer (b. 1937)
• 2004 - Serginho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
• 2006 - Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
• 2006 - Brad Will, American anarchist and independent journalist (b. 1970)

Holidays and observances

• United States - Navy Day
• Greece - Flag Day
• Turkmenistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Independence Day (from Britain, 1979)
• R.C. saints - October 27th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints:
  • Abban of Magheranoidhe
  • Abban of New Ross
  • St. Elesbaan
  • St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity into Ethiopia.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada