Historical Events on October 27.

1. World Day for Audio-visual Heritage

2. 312, 27th October: Constantine the Great is said to have received the Vision of the Cross.

3. 1958, 27th October: In Pakistan, General Ayub Khan staged a military coup and ousted President Iskander Mirza.

4. 1961, 27th October: Mauritania and Mongolia joined the United Nations.

5. 1961, 27th October: NASA tested the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.

6. 1971, 27th October: The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire.

7. 1986, 27th October: The United Kingdom lifted all restrictions on financial markets.

8. 1991, 27th October: Turkmenistan gained independence from Russia.

9. 2003, 27th October: Earthquake in China affected more than 50,000 people.

10. 2019, 27th October: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in north-western Syria. 

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 27.

1. 1670: Banda Singh Bahadur, a Sikh warrior and a commander of the Khalsa army.

2. 1858: Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Prize.

3. 1904: Jatin Das, Indian freedom fighters, and revolutionaries.

4. 1920: KR Narayanan, the 10th President of India.

5. 1923: Arvind Mafatlal, Indian industrialist.

6. 1932: Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

7. 1947: Dr. Vikas Amte, Indian Social worker.

8. 1954: Anuradha Poudwal, Indian playback singer.

9. 1976: Maneet Chauhan, an Indian-American chef, and writer.

10. 1977: Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer.

11. 1984: Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 27.

1. 1605: Akbar the Great, the third Mughal emperor.

2. 1937: Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, founder of Kirana Gharana and Guru of Sawai Gandharva.

3. 1941: Ernest Everett Just, a pioneering African-American biologist, academic and science writer.

4. 1964: Vaikuntha Mehta, the promoter of the (Sahakari) co-operative movement.

5. 1968: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-Swedish physicist.

6. 1974: Chakravarti Ramanujam, Mathematical.

7. 1974: Rudolf Dassler, German founder of the sportswear company Puma and the older brother of Adidas founder, Adolf Dassler.

8. 1987: Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer, cricket critic, businessman and social activist.

9. 1992: David Joseph Bohm, an American scientist.

10. 2001: Pradeep Kumar, Indian-Hindi, and Bengali films.

11. 2001: Bhaskar Ramchandra Bhagwat, a children’s writer and science fiction writer from India.

12. 2013: Lewis Allan Reed, an American musician, singer, songwriter, and poet.

13. 2015: Ranjit Roy Chaudhary, Indian pharmacologist and academic.