On This Day:
Monday October 27, 2014 This is the 300th day of the year, with 65 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: trousers Trousers can be traced to ancient Scythians, Persians, Japanese, and Hindus. Until the end of the 18th century, Europeans wore breeches, knickerbockers, and pantaloons (by 1820, trousers as we know them today).
Holidays Feast day of St. Otteran or Odhran of Iona, and St. Frumentius of Ethiopia.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Independence Day.
Turkmenistan: Independence Day.
United States: Navy Day.
Events 1659 - Two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, were executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for their religious beliefs.
1662 - England's Charles II sold Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France.
1787 - The first of the "Federalist Papers," a series of essays calling for ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, was published in the New York "Independent Journal."
1878 - The Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City was robbed of $3 million by George "Western" Leslie and his gang.
1904 - The first rapid transit subway, the IRT, opened in New York City. Today, the New York subway system is the largest in the world.
1927 - The first newsreel with sound was released in New York by Fox Movietone News.
1936 - Mrs. Wallis Simpson was granted a divorce from her husband, leaving her free to marry Britain's King Edward VIII.
1938 - DuPont announced its new synthetic yarn, called "nylon."
1947 - "You Bet Your Life," starring Groucho Marx, premiered on radio; it later became a television show.
1962 - In the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev offered to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the United States removed its missile bases in Turkey.
1971 - Republic of Congo changed its name to the Republic of Zaire.
1978 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gained independence.
1994 - U.S. Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison population has topped one million.
1998 - Hurricane Mitch in Central America killed more than 7000 in Honduras, Nicaragua, and other countries.
2004 - The Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 4.
Births 1728 - James Cook, British sea captain and explorer.
1782 - Niccoló Paganini, Italian violinist and composer.
1811 - Isaac Singer, American inventor of the sewing machine.
1858 - Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States of America (1901-1909).
1914 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet.
1923 - Roy Lichtenstein, American sculptor, artist.
1924 - Ruby Dee (Ruth Wallace), American actress.
1932 - Sylvia Plath, American poet.
1939 - John Cleese, English actor and comedian.
1984 - Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne, daughter of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne.
Deaths 1553 - Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian and discoverer of pulmonary blood circulation, burned for heresy in Switzerland.
1975 - Rex Stout, American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe.
1977 - James Mallahan Cain, American novelist.
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